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En route to French-controlled Fort Duquesne (present-day Pittsburgh), the Shawnee killed Mary's mother, father, and siblings, and ritually scalped them. Mary later learned that it was a Seneca custom, when one of their own was killed or taken prisoner in battle, to take an enemy as prisoner or to take their scalp in a mourning ritual.
During its seven-month occupation of the fort, the American military initially brought more soldiers to the fort in preparation for their advance, and raised a local volunteer corps (Upper Canadian Volunteers), making it the only military unit to be raised within the fort during the war. [10] Map of Fort George and the surrounding area during ...
The American Capture of Fort George. Ottawa, Ontario: Parks Canada. ISBN 0-660-01053-4. Cruikshank, Ernest (1990). The Battle of Fort George. Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario: Niagara Historical Society. ISBN 0-941967-10-7. Cruikshank, Ernest (1971) [1902]. The Documentary History of the Campaign upon the Niagara Frontier in the Year 1813.
Fort Humboldt: Eureka: Humboldt: 1853: 1866: United States Army Fort Hunter Liggett: North of the San Luis Obispo County line, bounded by Pfeiffer Big State Park to the north Monterey: 1940-United States Army Fort Iaqua: Iaqua: Humboldt: August 5, 1863: 1866: Union Army Fort Irwin: near Barstow: San Bernardino: 1940: United States Army Fort ...
Fort Alabama was destroyed and a new fort, Fort Foster, was built to replace it and named for Lieutenant Colonel William S. Foster. Fort Foster State Historic Site is a reproduction of the fort and is a part of the Hillsborough River State Park. [16] Fort Foster, Collier County - not to be confused with Fort Foster in Hillsborough County.
Fort George Island is an island of some 500 acres (200 ha), about 5 miles (8.0 km) long, [1]: 840 near the mouth of the St. John's River, in far northeast Duval County/Jacksonville, Florida. Part of the island is part of the 46,000-acre (190 km 2 ) Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve , celebrating the Native American population that was ...
The azimuthal equidistant projection is an azimuthal map projection. It has the useful properties that all points on the map are at proportionally correct distances from the center point, and that all points on the map are at the correct azimuth (direction) from the center point. A useful application for this type of projection is a polar ...
Fort George (also sometimes known as Fort Majabigwaduce, Castine, or Penobscot) was a palisaded earthwork fort built in 1779 by Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War in Castine, Maine. Located at a high point on the Bagaduce Peninsula, the fort was built as part of an initiative by the British to establish a new colony called New ...