Fort Ridgely was a frontier United States Army outpost from 1851 to 1867, built 1853–1854 in Minnesota Territory. The Sioux called it Esa Tonka. It was...
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Fort Ridgely was an early battle in the Dakota War of 1862. As the closest U.S. military post to the Lower Sioux Agency, the lightly fortified Fort Ridgely...
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stationed at Fort Ridgely) reinforced New Ulm. Residents continued to build barricades around the town. The Dakota attacked Fort Ridgely on August 20...
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sent south to build Fort Dodge and would garrison the fort until the army closed it and sent E Co. to help construct Fort Ridgely. In 1850 Alexander Ramsey...
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Fort Ridgely State Park is a state park of Minnesota, USA, on the Minnesota River south of Fairfax. It preserves Fort Ridgely, site of the Battle of Fort...
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Look up ridgely in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ridgely may refer to: Ridgely, Maryland, U.S Ridgely Airpark Ridgely, Missouri, U.S Ridgely, Tennessee...
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Fort Ridgely Creek is a stream in Nicollet County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is a tributary of the Minnesota River. Fort Ridgely Creek flows...
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5th Minnesota Infantry Regiment (section Fort Ridgely)
serving in its home state and the south, particularly at the Battles of Fort Ridgely, Corinth and Nashville. On October 23, 1861, Assistant Secretary of War...
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Ridgely Township is a township in Nicollet County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 126 at the 2000 census. Ridgely Township was organized...
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Big Eagle (section New Ulm and Fort Ridgely)
Ulm nor the first attack on Fort Ridgely... I was in the second fight at New Ulm and in the second attack on Fort Ridgely. At New Ulm I had but a few...
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Sheehan, who had left Fort Ridgely the day before with 50 men of Company C, 5th Minnesota Infantry Regiment, en route to Fort Ripley. Captain Marsh's...
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The Fort Ridgely and South Pass Wagon Road (also known as Nobles Trail) was a wagon trail that was intended to connect Fort Ridgely in Minnesota Territory...
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commander of the Fort three times as well as at Fort Ridgely. He lost a hand in combat. Major Hannibal Day Also was commander of Fort Ridgely and would become...
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artillery led by Colonel Henry Hastings Sibley. After the Battle of Fort Ridgely and the Battle of New Ulm, Colonel Henry Hastings Sibley was planning...
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favor of an all-out attack on Fort Ridgely, a move which Little Six supported. They viewed the capture of Fort Ridgely as the key to gaining control over...
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settler deaths, with seven more killed while fleeing the agency for Fort Ridgely. Tensions had run high in the weeks leading up to the attack. Many eastern...
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Mou-Zoo-Mau-Nee and the Mille Lacs band at Fort Ridgely cemetery in 1914 for their service to the State at Fort Ripley and their offer to fight the Sioux...
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heavy snows, a relief expedition from Fort Dodge failed to arrive in time. Another expedition from Fort Ridgely in Minnesota pursued Inkpaduta and his...
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the county during the 1862 Dakota War, most notably at the Battle of Fort Ridgely. The Minnesota River flows eastward along the southern border of Nicollet...
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Azayamankawin (section Visits to Fort Ridgely)
soldiers and families at Fort Ridgely in 1861 and 1862. Oscar G. Wall, a member of Captain John Marsh's company stationed at Fort Ridgely, described Betsey picking...
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to the Big Sioux/Missouri, the Fort Ridgely and South Pass Wagon Road and the Wagon Road from Fort Ripley to Fort Abercrombie. Private trails were cut...
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Retrieved August 22, 2010. "Fort Ridgely State Park". Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved August 22, 2010. "Fort Ridgely State Park". Rustic...
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Mississippi rivers to create a military reservation. The construction of Fort Snelling followed between 1819 and 1825. Its soldiers built a grist mill...
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State Highways 4 and 19 are two of the main arterial routes in the city. Fort Ridgely State Park is nearby. Fairfax was platted in 1882, and named after Fairfax...
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was organized into service at Camp Release, Hutchinson, Glencoe, Fort Ridgely, Fort Snelling and St. Peter, Minnesota, between August 15 and October 31...
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Minnesota River Valley Scenic Byway Alliance. Retrieved July 21, 2011. "Fort Ridgely". Minnesota Historical Society. Retrieved August 16, 2007. "Report to...
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monies arrived at St. Paul, Minnesota for distribution and were sent to Fort Ridgely on the 17th, but by then it was too late. Historians note actions by...
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quarter mile east. During the 1862 hostilities the Sioux attacked Fort Abercrombie, Fort Ridgely, New Ulm, Lower Sioux Indian Agency, and all of the white settlements...
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for the steamboat, the West Newton, which made the trip from Fort Snelling to Fort Ridgely in 1853. "This was the first steamer that had ascended the Minnesota...
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character actor with over 175 film credits. Ridgely was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of John Ridgely Rea. Ridgely's elementary schooling was in Hinsdale...
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