• 1915. U.S Marines and sailors fought at Fort Rivière against rebel Cacos. Fort Rivière was an old masonry fort built atop the steep Montagne Noire by the...
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    November went on to fight in the Battle of Fort Rivière, the engagement which ended the First Caco War. Banana Wars Fort Riviere Musicant, I, The Banana Wars...
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  • Fort Rivière is a ruined mountain fort in Haiti on the summit of Montagne Noire, Saint-Raphaël Arrondissement. It is on the north coast of Haiti to the...
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  • Cacos (military group) (category Military history of Haiti)
    defeating the remnants of the guerilla force at the Battle of Fort Rivière. During the occupation era, Rosalvo Bobo was an early leader of the Cacos faction...
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    The Battle of Trois-Rivières was fought on June 8, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War. A British army under Quebec Governor Guy Carleton defeated...
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    Smedley Butler (category Battle of Veracruz (1914) recipients of the Medal of Honor)
    Butler led the attack on Fort Rivière, Haiti, 17 November 1915. Following a concentrated drive, several different detachments of Marines gradually closed...
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    population's hands. History of the Dominican Republic History of Haiti Banana Wars Battle of Fort Dipitie Battle of Fort Rivière Dominican Republic–United...
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  • the Battle of Fort Rivière Samuel Gross World War II Aaron Bank – famous officer of the Office of Strategic Services who is considered the founder of the...
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    Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also This article lists all the battles that...
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    fall of Fort Douaumont, only three days after the beginning of the Battle of Verdun, shocked the French Army. It set the stage for the rest of a battle which...
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    States occupation of Haiti October 24–25, 1915 Battle of Fort Dipitie November 17, 1915 Battle of Fort Rivière October 6 or 7, 1919 Battle of Port-au-Prince...
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    Contrasting with the French forts built in the same era by Raymond Adolphe Séré de Rivières, the fort was built exclusively of unreinforced concrete, a new...
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    across the Petite-Rivière after suffering 800 deaths. In a statement made at the Fort de Joux, Louverture claimed that his forces consisted of 300 grenadiers...
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  • Battle of River Canard (French Bataille de Rivière aux Canards) was the site of an engagement between British and American forces on July 16, 1812, during...
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    John Marston (USMC) (category University of Pennsylvania alumni)
    participated in the Battle of Fort Rivière. During the battle, he commanded a small detachment of Benét–Mercié machine guns and covered the advance of Major Smedley...
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    occupation of Haiti, he participated in battles against the Caco bandit insurgency. During the battle for Fort Riviere, he saved the life of Smedley Butler...
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    much ground on the east bank and recovered Fort Douaumont and Fort Vaux. The battle lasted for 302 days, one of the longest and costliest in human history...
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    Fort Le Bœuf (often referred to as Fort de la Rivière au Bœuf) was a fort established by the French during 1753 on a fork of French Creek (in the drainage...
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    city of Verdun. Built from 1881 to 1884 for 1,500,000 francs, it housed a garrison of 150 men. Vaux was the second fort to fall in the Battle of Verdun...
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    Barbados–France relations Basse-Pointe Battle of Fort Royal, 1781 Battle of Martinique (1780) Bellefontaine, Martinique Bibliography of Martinique Biguine Bothrops...
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  • Paul Marin de la Malgue (category People of Louisiana (New France))
    activities, which included the construction of Fort de la Rivière au Bœuf (Fort Le Boeuf) are significant in the attempts of the French to secure a sustainable...
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    Douaumont (redirect from Douaumont Fort)
    some of the highest ground in the area. At the very beginning of the Battle of Verdun (February 1916) and due to French unpreparedness, the fort was easily...
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    and the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees at the Battle of Mas Deu on 19 May. After this success, Ricardos turned back and invested the Fort de Bellegarde...
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  • (16 mi) west of Hudson Bay. Fort Red Deer River or Fort Rivière la Biche was a North West Company trading post on the Red Deer River near the town of Hudson...
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    previous forts. During the Battle of Verdun the troops, under bombardment and fearing for the concrete fort, excavated new galleries under the fort for shelter...
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    Raymond Adolphe Séré de Rivières. The goal was to build a discontinuous enclosure around Metz using a series of artillery forts spaced a cannonshot apart...
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    conditions reduced the fort's ability to operate under fire. The fort was destroyed during World War I in the Battle of Liège, when the fort's magazine was hit...
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    The capture of Fort Ticonderoga occurred during the American Revolutionary War on May 10, 1775, when a small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan...
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    Coulée Grou (category Military history of Canada)
    commemorating that battle between French soldiers and native Iroquois. The site is designated by two names: Battle of Rivière des Prairies / Battle of Coulée Grou...
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    Languedoc Regiment (category Military units and formations of France in the French and Indian War)
    the defense of the city. They took part at the battles of Montmorency, Plains of Abraham, and Sainte-Foy. The hamlet of Languedoc in Rivière-Ojima, Quebec...
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