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    Fort Monroe is a former military installation in Hampton, Virginia, at Old Point Comfort, the southern tip of the Virginia Peninsula, United States. It...
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    in Fort Monroe. Prior to their escape, these three men had been forced to help construct an artillery battery at Sewell's Point, aimed at Fort Monroe. The...
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  • United States Monroe, Arkansas, an unincorporated community and census-designated place Fort Monroe (Yosemite), California, a historic site Monroe, Connecticut...
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    Fort Monroe is a historic site in Yosemite National Park. There are no longer remnants; it is a location only. The fort was not a military fort, but started...
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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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    approximately one mile south of Fort Monroe. Originally named Castle Calhoun or Fort Calhoun after Secretary of War John C. Calhoun, the fort was renamed after Maj...
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    from Fort Monroe, except Lee, who was ordered to take up residence on the artificial island of Rip Raps across the river from Fort Monroe, where Fort Wool...
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  • Abraham Eustis was established as a coast artillery replacement center for Fort Monroe and a balloon observation school. It was named for Brevet Brigadier General...
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    War I, Fort Story was integrated into the Coast Defenses of Chesapeake Bay, which also included Fort Monroe (the headquarters) and Fort Wool. Fort Story...
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    Monroe counties. Monroe, Maine, Monroe, Michigan, Monroe, Georgia, Monroe, Connecticut, both Monroe Townships in New Jersey, and Fort Monroe are all named...
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    Hampton traces its history to the city's Old Point Comfort, the home of Fort Monroe for almost 400 years, which was named by the 1607 voyagers, led by Captain...
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    capital Richmond by Union troops based at the well-defended post of Fort Monroe. This garrison was commanded by Major General Benjamin Butler, a former...
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  • this point in 1619. Today the location is home to Continental Park and Fort Monroe National Monument. For more than 400 years, Point Comfort served as a...
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    employed as professor of swimming and lifeguard at the Hygeia Hotel at Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia. On August 10, 1882, Odlum swam 18 miles (29 km)...
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    side of the channel opposite Fort Monroe, and on this island they completed another fort, named Fort Wool. With Fort Monroe went control of the lower Peninsula...
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    of Fort Monroe, which until 2011 was the oldest active-duty fort in the nation. During the American Civil War, numerous slaves escaped to Fort Monroe and...
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    would be the site for a series of military forts for the next few centuries, culminating with Fort Monroe was built there beginning in the 1830s. The...
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    launched an amphibious operation against Richmond by landing troops at Fort Monroe and then marching northwest up the Virginia Peninsula. After the fall...
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    Operations and Training, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Monroe, Virginia. He previously served as Senior Adviser to the now-defunct...
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  • of Fort Wolcott on Goat Island, Rhode Island Fort George (Virginia), a 1728 fort on the site of a 1632 fort at or near the later Fort Monroe Fort George...
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    area was heavily garrisoned, beginning with the construction of Fort Monroe and Fort Wool in 1819. During the American Civil War, a pivotal battle between...
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    also known as Building 1, is a historic officer's quarters located at Fort Monroe, Hampton, Virginia. The original section was built in 1819, and consists...
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    Virginia, just beyond the confines of the fort and within the range of its guns. The Union occupation of Fort Monroe was considered a threat to Richmond by...
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    time, the AGF moved from Washington, D.C. to Fort Monroe. In March 1948, the AGF was replaced at Fort Monroe with the new Office, Chief of Army Field Forces...
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    entrance from Chesapeake Bay was equipped with new fortifications (Fort Monroe and Fort Wool), much of the building work being supervised by a young military...
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    assassination of Abraham Lincoln, accused of treason, and imprisoned at Fort Monroe. He was released without trial after two years. Immediately after the...
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  • Fort Monroe: Jefferson Davis Memorial Park (1956). Dedicated by UDC, the park commemorates the CSA president's two years of imprisonment in the fort....
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    September 1935 at Fort Monroe; Battery H concurrently inactivated at Fort Monroe. Batteries B and D activated 1 November 1938 at Fort Monroe. Battery F activated...
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  • The Monroe–Pinkney Treaty was a treaty drawn up in 1806 by diplomats of the United States and United Kingdom to renew the 1795 Jay Treaty. As it was rejected...
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    Battles into a humiliating Union defeat. McClellan landed his army at Fort Monroe and moved northwest, up the Virginia Peninsula. Confederate Brigadier...
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