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Sill, Fort

(Encyclopedia)Sill, Fort: see Fort Sill.

Fort Union

(Encyclopedia)Fort Union, trading post of the American Fur Company, erected in 1828 near the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers, on the Mont.-N.Dak. line; it controlled converging routes of travel fr...

Albany, Fort

(Encyclopedia)Albany, Fort: see Fort Albany, Canada. ...

Garry, Fort

(Encyclopedia)Garry, Fort: see Fort Garry, Canada. ...

Henry, Fort

(Encyclopedia)Henry, Fort, Tenn.: see Fort Henry. ...

Fort Necessity

(Encyclopedia)Fort Necessity, entrenched camp built in July, 1754, by George Washington and his Virginia militia at Great Meadows (near the present Uniontown, Pa.). He retired there when he learned that the British...

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