The siege of Springfield was a siege of the colonial New England settlement of Springfield in 1675 by Native Americans during King Philip's War. Springfield...
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Springfield is the most populous city in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States, and its county seat. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the...
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history of Springfield, Massachusetts dates back to the colonial period, when it was founded in 1636 as Agawam Plantation, named after a nearby village of Algonkian-speaking...
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Springfield College is a private university in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. The institution's mission, called the Humanics philosophy, calls...
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The Student Prince (restaurant) (category Restaurants in Springfield, Massachusetts)
the only building to survive the Siege of Springfield during King Philip's War. Traditional accounts of Springfield history say that the first city and...
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Captain Aldrich Terry Farrell as Major Agatha Doyle Corey Feldman as Siegal Rick Springfield as Corporal Ryan Troy Donahue as General Flemming Audie England...
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Battle of Springfield was a battle of the American Civil War that took place on October 25, 1861, near Springfield, Missouri. Following the Battle of Wilson's...
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Battle of Bloody Brook, Siege of Springfield, Great Swamp Fight 1676: Lancaster raid, Sudbury Fight, Battle of Turner's Falls, Second Battle of Nipsachuck...
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and served as a safehouse during the siege on Springfield during King Philip's War, and remained on the corner of what is now Fort Street, presently the...
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appointed a major of Colonel Daniel Hitchcock's Regiment at the outbreak of the American Revolution. He served with the regiment in the Siege of Boston. When...
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The Springfield race riot of 1908 consisted of events of mass racial violence committed against African Americans by a mob of about 5,000 white Americans...
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The siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown and the surrender at Yorktown, was the final battle of American Revolutionary War. It was won...
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The Battle of Springfield was fought during the American Revolutionary War on June 23, 1780, in Union County, New Jersey. After the Battle of Connecticut...
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Theater of the American Civil War. It was fought on August 10, 1861, near Springfield, Missouri. In August, Confederates under Brigadier General Benjamin McCulloch...
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The siege of Charleston was a major engagement and major British victory in the American Revolutionary War, fought in the environs of Charles Town (today...
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revolvers. Over 100 types of muskets, rifles, and rifled muskets were used in the Civil War, though the two most common were the Springfield Model 1861 and Pattern...
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1988 film of the same title), was made about the team. Along with coaching youth baseball, Siegal was assistant coach for the Springfield College baseball...
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Vincent Speranza (category American recipients of the Legion of Honour)
His first engagement was in the Siege of Bastogne, where he operated a machine gun from a foxhole. During the siege, he visited a wounded comrade at...
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The siege of Boston (April 19, 1775 – March 17, 1776) was the opening phase of the American Revolutionary War. In the siege, American patriot militia...
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The Great Siege of Gibraltar was an unsuccessful attempt by Spain and France to capture Gibraltar from the British during the American Revolutionary War...
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Emmett MacDonald (category Confederate States of America military personnel killed in the American Civil War)
Battery and was its first commander, fighting at the Battle of Pea Ridge and the Siege of Corinth. In mid-1862, MacDonald was transferred to the Trans-Mississippi...
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Daniel Hitchcock (category People of Rhode Island in the American Revolution)
later of tuberculosis at Morristown, New Jersey. Not much is known of Daniel Hitchcock's early life. He was born on February 15, 1739, in Springfield, Massachusetts...
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Daniel Shays (category People convicted of treason against a state of the United States)
His company took part in the Boston campaign and Siege of Boston, and Shays fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Shortly after Bunker Hill, Shays was...
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The siege of Savannah or the second battle of Savannah was an encounter of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) in 1779. The year before, the city...
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Luke Day (category People from West Springfield, Massachusetts)
Luke Day Jr. was born in 1743, in what is now West Springfield, Massachusetts, the oldest son of Luke Day, Sr. and Jerusha (Skinner) Day. He was christened...
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The siege of Port Hudson (May 22 – July 9, 1863) was the final engagement in the Union campaign to recapture the Mississippi River in the American Civil...
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1997 Roby standoff (section End of standoff)
unincorporated area of Christian County, Illinois, approximately 20 miles southeast of Springfield. In 1989, Allen's husband, John, died of pancreatic cancer...
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verdict that awarded $3.5 million in damages to the owner of a former ABC station in Springfield, Missouri, after Capital Cities/ABC disaffiliated them—which...
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Wieambilla shootings (category Australian police officers killed in the line of duty)
without warning, the residents of the property, armed with a .308 Winchester Ruger M77 rifle and a .30-06 Springfield Tikka T3 rifle, shot at the police...
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Mr. Burns (category Fictional members of secret societies)
Shearer. He is the mostly evil, devious, greedy, and wealthy owner of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and, by extension, Homer Simpson's boss. He is...
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