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    The Castillo de San Marcos (Spanish for "St. Mark's Castle") is the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States; it is located on the western...
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    The 1777 Siege of Fort Ticonderoga occurred between the 2nd and 6 July 1777 at Fort Ticonderoga, near the southern end of Lake Champlain in the state of...
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    represented the British) and Lieutenant Colonel Laurens (who represented the Americans) and Marquis de Noailles (who represented the French). To make sure...
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    Retrieved 13 December 2017. Pieper, Thomas I.; Gidney, James B. (1976). Fort Laurens, 1778-1779: The Revolutionary War in Ohio. Kent State University Press...
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  • under Laurens' command. Laurens and his troops stopped for the night at a plantation house near the Combahee River, the home of a friend of Laurens. They...
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    Bird and warriors of the Wyandot, Mingo, Munsee, and Delaware laid siege to Fort Laurens. On October 1, 1779, Girty and Alexander McKee, leading a large...
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    M. Simmons (2 coys) Light Troops commanded by Lieutenant colonel John Laurens (1 strengthened coy) Commanding General, Lieutenant-general Count Estaing...
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    "Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du siège de Gibraltar, par l'auteur des batteries flottantes." Soon after the siege the town of Gibraltar was reconstructed...
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    revolutionary spirit alive was more important. Washington informed Henry Laurens, then president of the Second Continental Congress, "that the possession...
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  • the Second Continental Congress: John Hancock (until October 29), Henry Laurens (starting November 1) January 2 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of...
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    The Waco siege, also known as the Waco massacre, was the siege by U.S. federal government and Texas state law enforcement officials of a compound belonging...
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    of Fort Charlotte, after a two-week siege, Spanish general, colonial governor of Louisiana, and Viceroy of New Spain Bernardo de Gálvez captures Fort Charlotte...
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    fortify Dorchester Heights and break the standoff at the siege of Boston. Capture of the fort marked the beginning of offensive action taken by the Americans...
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    Seven Years' War (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Polish Succession and War of the Austrian Succession. Grand Pensionary Laurens van de Spiegel, in 1782, blamed the earlier generations for placing too heavy...
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    British forts. On June 18, after undertaking the month-long siege of Ninety Six, Greene launched an unsuccessful attack on the British fort at Ninety...
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    the British siege works had advanced far enough towards the Charleston fortifications to drain the canal in front.: 61, 66–69  On 7 May, Fort Moultrie surrendered...
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    the day, including Raphaël Collin, Henri-Camille Danger, Jean-Paul Laurens, Puvis de Chavannes, Léon Bonnat, Albert Besnard, Henri Gervex, Aimé Morot or...
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    Boston-based ship captured in Machias Bay Fort Washington, Massachusetts, surviving colonial position used during the siege List of conflicts in the United States#18th...
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    forces attacked Fort Laurens, a U.S. fort in the Ohio Territory. Between the combatants on the Sandusky River and the Americans at Fort Pitt were several...
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    speeches. "What Is Cinco de Mayo?". The New York Times. May 5, 2018. Retrieved May 6, 2018. Lauren Effron (May 5, 2010). "Cinco de Mayo: NOT Mexico's Independence...
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  • Hamilton (2020 film) (category Cultural depictions of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette)
    receives word that Laurens has been killed in a seemingly pointless battle after the war was won and throws himself into his work ("The Laurens Interlude/Tomorrow...
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    outposts of Fort Ticonderoga and Fort Edward, but, pushing on, decided to break his communications with Quebec. The news of the capture of Fort Ticonderoga...
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  • Contestants: Lauren Windham, Lead Line Cook from Atlanta, GA (eliminated after the appetizer) Reuben Dhanawade, Sous Chef from Newark, DE (eliminated after...
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    important fortress of Pondicherry after a siege of only 16 days by an expedition of 3,000 men and 19 ships under Laurens Pit from Nagapattinam in September 1693...
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    Hamilton (musical) (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    receives word that Laurens has been killed in a seemingly pointless battle after the war was won and throws himself into his work ("The Laurens Interlude/Tomorrow...
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    Montgomery's action during the siege, and promoted him to lieutenant. On 8 July 1758, James Abercromby attacked Fort Carillon on Lake Champlain, but...
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    built Fort Laurens, which they garrisoned. Lenape sympathetic to the United States remained at Coshocton, and Lenape leaders signed the Treaty of Fort Pitt...
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  • Creek – 1779 – American Revolutionary War Siege of Fort Laurens – 1779 – American Revolutionary War Siege of Fort Vincennes – 1779 – American Revolutionary...
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    The Battle of Fort Washington was fought in New York on November 16, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War between the United States and Great Britain...
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  • Fort Lauderdale and Orlando, Florida, and John F. Kennedy International, Southwest from Fort Lauderdale and Tampa, Florida, Spirit Airlines from Fort...
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