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    The Harbor Defenses of New York was a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command. It coordinated the coast defenses of New York City...
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  • Sackets Harbor (earlier spelled Sacketts Harbor) is a village in Jefferson County, New York, United States, on Lake Ontario. The population was 1,450...
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    operational in 1896. The fort served from then until 1950 as part of the Harbor Defenses of New York and predecessor organizations. Between 1874 and 1919, the...
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  • It consisted of the forts, controlled underwater minefields, and other coastal defenses of a particular harbor or river. Harbor Defense Commands, along...
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    The Harbor Defenses of Long Island Sound was a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command. It coordinated the coast defenses of Long...
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    The Harbor Defenses of Boston was a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command. It coordinated the coast defenses of Boston, Massachusetts...
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    The Harbor Defenses of New Bedford was a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command. It coordinated the coast defenses of New Bedford...
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  • The Harbor Defenses of Portsmouth was a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command. It coordinated the coast defenses of Portsmouth...
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    was renamed Coast Defenses of Portland in 1913, and again renamed Harbor Defenses of Portland in 1925. The Kennebec coast defense command may have originated...
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    on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each of which is coextensive with a respective county. New York is a global...
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    Totten's last heavy armament, the mortars of Battery King, were removed and the Harbor Defenses of Eastern New York effectively inactivated, although a minefield...
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    The Harbor Defenses of Narragansett Bay was a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command. It coordinated the coast defenses of Narragansett...
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  • attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 convinced then-publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the necessity of a crossword. The New York Times has published...
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    attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii...
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    fortifications were built at key locations, especially protecting major harbors. The defenses heavily depended on fortifications but also included submarine minefields...
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    The Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays ("Coast Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays" until 1925) (a.k.a. CD/HD Manila Bay) were a United States Army...
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    245th Coast Artillery (United States) (category Military history of New York City)
    Artillery Corps regiment in the New York National Guard. It garrisoned the Harbor Defenses of New York (HD New York), New York and predecessor commands 1924–1944...
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  • Portsmouth Naval Shipyard at the junction of the states of Maine and New Hampshire. The Harbor Defenses of New York, von Mantey thought, were too strong,...
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    The Harbor Defenses of the Delaware was a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command. It coordinated the coast defenses of the Delaware...
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  • The Harbor Defense Museum, sometimes called The Caponier, located within the grounds of Fort Hamilton in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn is a 19th-century...
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    Army suffered a series of additional defeats that forced a retreat from the New York City area, leaving the strategic port and harbor to the British army...
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    activated. Regimental assets transferred to Harbor Defenses of New York and HHB released from Eastern Defense Command to IX Corps, Army Ground Forces 24...
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    Defending the Narrows: The Harbor Defenses of Southern New York – Part I, The Muzzleloading Era, 1890–1950, Coast Defense Journal, Vol. 22, No. 4, Nov...
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    1777 with only a few outposts near New York City under British control. The British held New York Harbor for the rest of the Revolutionary War, using it...
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    The New York Harbor Storm-Surge Barrier is a proposed flood barrier system to protect the New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary from storm surges. The proposed...
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    Island is a federally owned island in New York Harbor, situated within the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York, that was once the busiest immigrant...
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    Artillery District of New York, renamed in 1913 as the Coast Defenses of Southern New York. The following table shows the gun batteries completed at Fort...
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  • Following the establishment of nytimes.com, The New York Times retained its journalistic hesitancy under executive editor Joseph Lelyveld, refusing to...
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    a borough of New York City. Located on the westernmost end of Long Island, it is coextensive with Kings County in the U.S. state of New York. With 2,736...
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    The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball...
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