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    Fort Lyon was composed of two 19th-century military fort complexes in southeastern Colorado. The initial fort, also called Fort Wise, operated from 1860...
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  • Fort Lyon may refer to: Fort Lyon, Colorado, a U.S. Army fort used until 1897 Fort Lyon National Cemetery Fort Lyon, Colorado, an unincorporated town...
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    included a sub-post, Fort Lyon, on Cow Island, just north of Great Diamond Island. Fort Lyon was named for Nathaniel Lyon. Both forts were part of the Coast...
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    they should come to Fort Lyon and be under the protection of Major Wynkoop. 652 Arapahos led by Chief Little Raven appeared at Fort Lyon beginning around...
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    Fort Lyon (usually Camp Lyon in Northern records) was a timber and earthwork fortification constructed south of Alexandria, Virginia as part of the defenses...
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    Fort Lyon is an unincorporated community and U.S. Post Office in Bent County, Colorado, United States. The Fort Lyon Post Office had the ZIP Code 81038...
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  • Fort Lyon Correctional Facility was a facility in Bent County, Colorado, housing transgender inmates and inmates with medical conditions requiring constant...
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    Lyon was responsible for another massacre in Cokadjal, killing 75 to 100 people, albeit the number was likely double. After being reassigned to Fort Riley...
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    New Mexico (1862–1868). The most recent Fort Wingate (1868–1993) was established at the former site of Fort Lyon, on Navajo territory, initially to control...
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    Fort Lyon. He placed a guard around old Colonel Bent, the former agent there; he stopped a Mr. Hagues and many men who were on their way to Fort Lyon...
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    Major Wynkoop at Fort Lyon. The chiefs agreed, and, after gathering their peaceful tribes, camped about 40 miles north of Fort Lyon, at Big Sandy Creek...
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    location):   Lônes et coteaux   Lyon-Centre (Lyon-Centre)   Lyon-Est (Lyon-East)   Lyon-Nord (Lyon-North)   Lyon-Ouest   Lyon-Sud   Lyon-Sud-Est   Ouest   Plateau...
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  • (disambiguation) Lyon Township (disambiguation) Lyon Village, Arlington, Virginia, a neighborhood Fort Lyon (disambiguation) Lyon (surname) Lyon Court, the...
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    The Fort Saint-Jean is located in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon and part of the first fort belt of Lyon, which includes Fort de Loyasse, and the now-demolished...
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    life. Carson was married three times and had ten children. He died at Fort Lyon of an aortic aneurysm on May 23, 1868. He is buried in Taos, New Mexico...
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    Fort Lyon National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located near the city of Las Animas in Bent County, Colorado. It encompasses 51.9 acres...
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    Chivington to relocate to Fort Lyon, where they were to await a peace agreement. The Arapaho and Cheyenne who went to Fort Lyon were again relocated to...
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  • Camp Lyon, sometimes called Fort Lyon, was established March 1862 as a temporary California Volunteer post located about 20 miles southeast of Arcata,...
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    leased the fort to the United States government, which operated it as a military outpost until 1867. In 1862, it was named Fort Lyon. The fort was abandoned...
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    Fort Lyon, Wynkoop promised the peaceful Indians protection if they established a village on Sand Creek, 60 kilometres (37 mi) northeast of Fort Lyon...
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    commander of Fort Lyon. The chiefs agreed to peacefully settle their people on the reservation on Big Sandy Creek about 40 miles northwest of Fort Lyon. The reservation...
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  • War. Lyons was born sometime in about 1838 in Salem, Massachusetts. On April 24, 1862, he was on board USS Pensacola during the attack on Fort Jackson...
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    southern border as a line running through Fort Defiance; the eastern border as a line running through Fort Lyon; and in the west as longitude 109°30′.: 68 ...
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    leaving from Fort Lyon. Sheridan directed the opening month of the campaign from Camp Supply. The Units from the 5th and 3rd Cavalry met at Fort Cobb without...
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    1860s. The site is one end of the historic Fort Churchill and Sand Springs Toll Road. The park is in Lyon County south of the town of Silver Springs,...
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    Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (French: Aéroport de Lyon-Saint Exupéry), formerly known as Lyon Satolas Airport (IATA: LYS, ICAO: LFLL), is the international...
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    White Antelope and other Cheyenne chiefs led their people in peace to Fort Lyon. They settled with Arapaho on Sand Creek. On November 29, 1864, Chivington...
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    ceintures de Lyon ([sɛ̃.tyʁ də ljɔ̃]; "Belts of Lyon") were a series of fortifications built between 1830 and 1890 around the city of Lyon, France, to...
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  • Fort Saint-Jean may refer to: Fort Saint-Jean (Lyon) Fort Saint-Jean (Marseille) Fort Saint-Jean (Quebec) Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, city developed around...
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    who did not comply. Canby sent Captain Andrew W. Evans to the fort, named Fort Lyon on September 25, who took command. Manuel Chaves, suspended from...
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