Fort Adams is a former United States Army post in Newport, Rhode Island, that was established on July 4, 1799, as a First System coastal fortification...
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Fort Gregg-Adams, in Prince George County, Virginia, United States, is a United States Army post and headquarters of the United States Army Combined Arms...
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Fort Adams State Park is a public recreation and historic area preserving Fort Adams, a large coastal fortification located at the harbor mouth in Newport...
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Fort Adams is a small, river port community in Wilkinson County, Mississippi, United States, about 40 miles (64 km) south of Natchez. It is notable for...
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Commandant's Residence or Quarters Number One of Fort Adams, is a historic house that is part of Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island. The building...
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American Revolution, but the Americans renamed it Fort Adams and then Fort Independence. The existing granite fort was constructed between 1833 and 1851. Today...
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Rockford, Ohio (redirect from Fort Adams (Ohio))
Anthony Wayne built Fort Adams in the area of Rockford in the early August 1794, as a temporary relay station and supply depot. Fort Adams was initially garrisoned...
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million bricks. Among United States forts, only Fort Monroe in Virginia and Fort Adams in Rhode Island are larger. The fort is located on Garden Key in the...
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The Treaty of Fort Adams was signed on December 17, 1801, between the Choctaw (an American Indian tribe) and the United States Government. The treaty ceded...
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alternative band formed by Donnelly in the 1990s, was also based in Newport. Fort Adams State Park hosts both the Newport Folk Festival and the Newport Jazz Festival...
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1985, Wein revived the festival in Newport, where it has been held at Fort Adams State Park ever since. The Newport Folk Festival was started in 1959 by...
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Fort Washington may refer to: Battle of Fort Washington, during the American Revolutionary War Fort Washington, a sub-post of Fort Adams, Mississippi,...
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of Fort Adams in Newport, Rhode Island. Fort Adams was the second-largest construction project attempted by the army in the 19th century, after Fort Monroe...
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air. Each year the building was listing a little more northward, toward Fort Adams. A major restoration was required to save the damaged structure. Major...
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and was replaced by CareFusion. The festival is hosted in Newport at Fort Adams State Park. It is often held in the same month as the Newport Folk Festival...
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first fort, formerly named Fort Sullivan, built of palmetto logs, inspired the flag and nickname of South Carolina, as "The Palmetto State". The fort was...
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Robert Anderson (Civil War) (redirect from Robert Anderson (Fort Sumter commander))
last military assignment was a brief period as commanding officer of Fort Adams in Newport, Rhode Island, in August 1863. Anderson officially retired...
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Harbor Defenses of Narragansett Bay (category Forts in Rhode Island)
of the new forts in the Newport area. The most significant was the first Fort Adams on Brenton's Point, on the site of the current Fort Adams, which mounted...
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1812, Fort Wolcott along with other fortifications at Fort Adams (on nearby Brenton Point), Fort Greene (in the Point Section of Newport), Fort Hamilton...
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directly on the Mississippi River approximately 2.25 mi (3.62 km) south of Fort Adams, Clarksville was one of the earliest non-Native settlements in Mississippi...
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General "Mad" Anthony Wayne ordered a fort built at the site as a supply depot for Fort Adams, Fort Defiance, and Fort Wayne. It was originally a stockade...
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was housed in a permanent exhibit at The Museum of Yachting located in Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island prior to the museum's dismantling...
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climate. Pierce served as commander of Fort Adams from June 1847 until September 1848. During the war, Fort Adams was maintained by a small detachment that...
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John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president...
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185-87. Vanderbilt, 185-6. Gannon, Thomas. Newport Mansions: the Gilded Age. Fort Church Publishers, Inc., 1982: p. 8. Miller, G. Wayne (July 7, 2000). "Fortune's...
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announced that Fort Lee outside of Petersburg, Virginia would be renamed Fort Gregg–Adams to honor both Gregg and Lt. Col. Charity Adams Earley. An important...
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Amistad (film) (category Cultural depictions of John Quincy Adams)
prison scenes were shot within Fort Adams. During the scene where the characters Joseph Cinqué and John Quincy Adams meet for the first time, actors...
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US Army coast defense system only Fort Warren and Fort Washington in Maryland had this type of gun. Battery Adams was built of low-quality concrete and...
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