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    Fort Morgan is a historic masonry pentagonal bastion fort at the mouth of Mobile Bay, Alabama, United States. Named for American Revolutionary War hero...
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  • Fort Morgan, also known as Fort Bowyer, is an unincorporated community in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States. It is west of Gulf Shores on Mobile...
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  • Fort Morgan can apply to any one of several places in the United States: Fort Morgan (Alabama), a fort at the mouth of Mobile Bay Fort Morgan, Alabama...
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    The siege of Fort Morgan occurred during the American Civil War, as part of the battle for Mobile Bay, in the Confederate state of Alabama during August...
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    Fort Armstrong was a stockade fort built in present-day Cherokee County, Alabama during the Creek War. The fort was built to protect the surrounding area...
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    After the Confederates at Fort Morgan observed U.S. Army soldiers in the lighthouse reconnoitering the fort, the guns of the fort fired upon the island,...
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    summers. In 1910, most of the Army troops were moved from Fort De Soto to Fort Morgan, Alabama. Only a caretaker force remained; by 1914, only an ordnance...
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    Wetumpka, Alabama. Fort Toulouse (Muscogee: Franca choka chula), also called Fort des Alibamons and Fort Toulouse des Alibamons, is a historic fort near the...
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    governor of Alabama Andrew B. Moore defied the United States government by seizing the two federal forts at the Gulf Coast (forts Morgan and Gaines) and...
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    Fort Payne is a city in and county seat of DeKalb County, in northeastern Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 14,877. The city...
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    M1918MI (#9 Morgan Eng.), Spanish–American War Memorial, Henry B. Plant Museum, Tampa, Florida, (gun formerly at Battery Bowyer, Fort Morgan, Alabama) One 8-inch...
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    the Alabama beach mouse historically included much of the Fort Morgan Peninsula on the Alabama Gulf coast, and extended from Ono Island to Fort Morgan. As...
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    killed flying a Grumman F-11A Tiger that crashed into the water near Fort Morgan, Alabama during a test flight. Lt. George L. Neale – 15 March 1964: killed...
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    Florida Fort Mifflin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Fort Morgan, Alabama Fort Union Valmora, New Mexico Fort Jay, on Governors Island in New York Bay Fort Wood...
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    Morgan City, and all of St. Mary Parish, is included in the Lafayette-Opelousas-Morgan City CSA. During the American Civil War, the Star Fort of Fort...
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    "Governor Riley Orders Evacuations of Gulf Shores, Orange Beach, and Fort Morgan". Alabama.Gov. Archived from the original on October 16, 2004. Retrieved December...
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    form, as well as in Marine and Sheen Booms at Dauphin Island and Fort Morgan, Alabama, to aid in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill cleanup. Vacuum and centrifuge:...
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  • moved to Fort Morgan, Alabama on April 3, 1864. On August 12, 1864, Brigadier General Asboth, U.S.A., reported: "The garrison at Fort Morgan numbers 600...
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    Fort Morgan Municipal Airport (ICAO: KFMM, FAA LID: FMM, formerly 3V4) is six miles north of Fort Morgan, in Morgan County, Colorado, United States. The...
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    siege of Fort Gaines, Alabama, occurred between August 3 and 8, 1864, during the American Civil War. It took place in the Mobile Bay area of Alabama as part...
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    moh-BEEL, French: [mɔbil] ) is a city and the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States. The population was 187,041 at the 2020 census. After a...
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    Service: Teaching with Historic Places: Fort Morgan and the Battle of Mobile Bay Flotte's Notes on Mobile, Alabama, History U.S. Census of 1860. Bergeron...
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    Confederate garrison that controlled Fort Morgan, Alabama during the Union's attacks on Mobile Bay. Fort Morgan withstood the Union attack on April 5, 1864...
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    Noble Leslie DeVotie (category People from Tuscaloosa, Alabama)
    of his young male congregants had joined the CSA. He was stationed at Fort Morgan near Mobile, where he pastored many of his former congregants. He also...
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    Huntsville–Decatur combined statistical area (category Geography of Morgan County, Alabama)
    Fayetteville, Fort Payne, Guntersville, Hartselle, Huntsville, and Madison, as well as DeKalb, Lawrence, Limestone, Lincoln, Madison, Marshall, and Morgan counties...
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    gun of similar vintage (both were M1888 weapons) was obtained from Fort Morgan, Alabama and installed on the 1927 memorial's vacant plinth. The new gun is...
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  • Mobile Point (category Landforms of Baldwin County, Alabama)
    partially encloses. It is located in Baldwin County, Alabama. At its western tip is Fort Morgan, which faces Fort Gaines sitting across the inlet to the Mobile...
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    and the 7th were on garrison duty at Fort Pike, Louisiana, in 1842–43, and were stationed at Fort Morgan, Alabama, briefly in 1843. He did garrison duty...
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    and strengthened Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines. After the fall of New Orleans, some citizens of Mobile fled to the interior of Alabama due to fear the United...
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  • what is now Baldwin County, Alabama, but then was part of the Mississippi Territory. The British twice attacked the fort during the War of 1812. The first...
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