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    Fort Leavenworth (/ˈlɛvənˌwɜːrθ/) is a United States Army installation located in Leavenworth County, Kansas, in the city of Leavenworth. Built in 1827...
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    Barracks (USDB), colloquially known as Leavenworth, is a military correctional facility located on Fort Leavenworth, a United States Army post in Kansas...
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    Disciplinary Barracks (USDB), a military facility located on the adjacent Fort Leavenworth army post. Located 4 miles (6.4 km) north of the USP, the USDB is the...
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    Leavenworth. Leavenworth, founded in 1854, was the first city incorporated in the territory of Kansas. The city developed south of Fort Leavenworth,...
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    Indians. He established Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. The city of Leavenworth, Kansas; Leavenworth County, Kansas; and the Leavenworth Penitentiary are named...
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    after Henry Leavenworth, a general in the Indian Wars who established Fort Leavenworth. For many millennia, the Great Plains of North America was inhabited...
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    Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located on Fort Leavenworth, a United States Army installation north of Leavenworth...
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    her family to spare his life, Kennedy refused; Bennett was hanged at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1961. Bennett was the fourth of eight children born to a...
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  • limits Roman Catholic Diocese of Leavenworth Fort Leavenworth, a U.S. Army base in Leavenworth, Kansas Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery, a cemetery on...
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    concern—before being transferred to the Joint Regional Correctional Facility at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where she could interact with other detainees. In February...
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    Fort Sully was an earthwork artillery battery built on the plateau of Hancock Hill, the highest hill west of Fort Leavenworth, in September and October...
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  • The Fort Leavenworth Lamp is a weekly newspaper for the U.S. Army military community living in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. It is a civilian contract newspaper...
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    frontier. On September 21, 1866, the 10th Cavalry Regiment was formed at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The nickname "Buffalo Soldiers" was purportedly given to the...
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    Fort Leavenworth Military Prison Cemetery (also known as the United States Disciplinary Barracks Cemetery) is a cemetery maintained by the Fort Leavenworth...
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    Command and General Staff College (CGSC or, obsolete, USACGSC) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, is a graduate school for United States Army and sister service...
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    white settlement with the exception of Fort Leavenworth. The Fort was established in 1827 by Henry Leavenworth with the 3rd U.S. Infantry from St. Louis...
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    buried on the battlefield, but were reinterred in Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1877. A marble slab on the Little Bighorn...
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    October 14, 2016. Retrieved September 13, 2016. "Military Installations (Fort Leavenworth, Kansas)". Department of Defense. Retrieved September 13, 2016. Wikimedia...
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  • (Tampa, Florida) Army University (Fort Leavenworth, Kansas) Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) (Fort Leavenworth, Kansas) Command and General Staff...
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    judge was C. W. Raymond. Bennie was sentenced to the U.S. prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, for his natural life. His son was released after eleven years...
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    settlement of non-indigenous people in Kansas occurred in 1827 at Fort Leavenworth. The pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political...
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    Correctional Facility (J.R.C.F.) is a military prison at 831 Sabalu Road, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas which opened in 2010. The 224,736-square-foot (20,878.7 m2)...
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    there. The Army then sent Colonel Kearny with a detachment of men from Fort Leavenworth up the Missouri to the area with orders to construct an outpost at...
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    Civil War general (PDF) (Master of Military Art and Science thesis). Fort Leavenworth, KS: US Army Command and General Staff College. pp. 53–57. OCLC 465213073...
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    university press affiliated with Army University. It is based out of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Air University Marine Corps University Texas A&M University...
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    Medal of Merit. He attended the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1935 and 1936, and the Army War College in 1938 and 1939...
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    dispatches relating to the land agreements and battalion criteria to Fort Leavenworth, Kane sought out Little in the Mormon encampments on the Missouri....
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  • military prison, based on the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth. A highly decorated U.S. Army Lieutenant General, court martialed and...
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  • prisoners of war by hanging at the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The 14 POWs, members of the German armed services, had been...
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    violent, the Addis's and the Shorts moved to Leavenworth, Kansas, where they lived near the protection of the fort. Addis started his own photography business...
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