Fort Jesup, also known as Fort Jesup State Historic Site or Fort Jesup or Fort Jesup State Monument, was built in 1822, 22 miles (35 km) west of Natchitoches...
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Major General – 8 May 1828 Jesup, Georgia; Lake Jesup, Florida; and Fort Jesup, Louisiana, were named in his honor. 1986, Jesup was inducted into the Quartermaster...
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south, 1827, and Noble, in the north portion, dating back to the 1830s. Fort Jesup was founded in 1822 by Lieutenant Colonel Zachary Taylor who later became...
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General Eleazer Wheelock Ripley, then Fort Selden for Captain Joseph Selden, Corps of Artillery. When Fort Jesup was established in 1822, the troops were...
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Zachary Taylor (section Command of Fort Howard)
Florida. He built Fort Gardiner and Fort Basinger as supply depots and communication centers in support of Major General Thomas S. Jesup's campaign to penetrate...
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president Jefferson Davis (1808–1889) when living with her father and family at Fort Crawford during the Black Hawk War in 1832. They married in 1835 and she...
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1811 prior to the French invasion of Russia The army of observation at Fort Jesup, Louisiana, United States, which monitored Texas' transition from Spanish...
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Battle of Palo Alto (section Fort Polk)
Rio Grande. On May 3, the troops began to besiege the American outpost at Fort Texas. Taylor marched his Army of Occupation south to relieve the siege....
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in charge of the third column. Jesup ordered him to set up a depot somewhere near the Peace River. Taylor built Fort Gardner (near Lake Tohopekaliga)...
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la Palma to the Americans.: 59 Recalling his experiences at the Siege of Fort Texas, he positioned his forces along the twelve foot deep and two hundred...
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slaves. Dr. Emerson was transferred to Fort Jesup in Louisiana in 1837, leaving the Scott family behind at Fort Snelling and leasing them out (also called...
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Besides the citadel, Mexican strong points within the city included the "Black Fort" (Col. Jose Lopez Uraga, 3d & 4th Line and 9 guns – incl. "San Patricio"...
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Bend Tickfaw State Historic Sites Audubon Centenary Fort Jesup Fort Pike Fort St. Jean Baptiste Forts Randolph & Buhlow Locust Grove Longfellow-Evangeline...
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Travel Itinerary. National Park Service. Retrieved November 14, 2015. "Fort Jesup". Cane River National Heritage Area: A National Register of Historic Places...
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purchasing land in the area. In the early 1830s, the family was with Taylor at Fort Crawford as he waged the Black Hawk War. Later they returned to Baton Rouge...
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Enabling Act. Before the end of the year, the army reassigned Emerson to Fort Jesup in Louisiana, where Emerson married Eliza Irene Sanford in February 1838...
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was assigned on 11 September 1918 to the 13th Division at Fort Lewis. 13th ID never left Fort Lewis, and demobilized there on 8 March 1919. 1st IR was...
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Bend Tickfaw State Historic Sites Audubon Centenary Fort Jesup Fort Pike Fort St. Jean Baptiste Forts Randolph & Buhlow Locust Grove Longfellow-Evangeline...
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(Marthaville Road). 3.8 miles (6.1 km) northeast of Many, LA 6 passes near the Fort Jesup State Historic Site, which is served by LA 3118, a short loop off the...
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Wayne County, Georgia (redirect from Jesup, GA μSA)
census, the population was 30,144. The county seat is Jesup. Wayne County comprises the Jesup, Georgia micropolitan statistical area. At the time of...
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upper Wabash near present-day Lafayette, Indiana), Chicago, Fort Miamis (near present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana), and Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, operated...
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injured in a disastrous 1792 battle with Indians under Little Turtle near Fort St. Clair, site of the present Eaton, Ohio. After the war, Taylor became...
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honor of Colonel James B. Many, who commanded the garrison at the nearby Fort Jesup. Many is located at 31°34′4″N 93°28′40″W / 31.56778°N 93.47778°W /...
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heavy rain fell over the field.: 217 On the battlefield, the heroine of Fort Brown, Sarah A. Bowman, known as the "Great Western", ministered to American...
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Florida Territory. Established by Maj. Gen. Thomas Jesup, it was garrisoned by regular army troops. The fort stood about seven miles southwest of St. Augustine...
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Second Seminole War (category History of Fort Lauderdale, Florida)
was relieved of command and replaced by Maj. Gen. Thomas Jesup, who took the troops back to Fort Brooke. The enlistments of the volunteers were up at the...
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commanding general in the Seminole Wars. He served at Fort Smith, Arkansas, and at Fort Jesup, Louisiana, as a staff officer. In 1845, Bliss took part...
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Texans' demand for military and naval protection, deploying troops to Fort Jesup in Louisiana and a fleet of warships to the Gulf of Mexico. In case the...
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Cavalry School, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, 1842; on frontier duty at Fort Jesup, Louisiana, 1842–43; on detached service at Washington, D.C., 1843–44;...
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State University in 1973. His thesis: Frontier outpost: a history of Fort Jesup, Louisiana, 1822-1846 . He lived in New Orleans, where he wrote about...
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