Fort Porter was constructed between 1841 and 1844 at Buffalo in Erie County, New York, and named for General Peter Buell Porter. The site was bounded...
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execution disrupted the effort to relieve the garrison at Fort Sumter, leading to Sumter's fall. Porter commanded an independent flotilla of mortar boats at...
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Porter Airlines (stylized in all lowercase as porter) is a Canadian airline headquartered at Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport on the Toronto Islands in...
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Museum. Fort Porter, Porter Avenue in Buffalo, Porter Road in Niagara Falls, and Porter Township in Niagara County are all named in honor of Gen. Porter. Porter's...
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1917, she began writing for the Fort Worth Critic, critiquing dramas and writing society gossip. Prior to 1918, Porter was married to, then subsequently...
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congressional hearings. Porter was born on January 3, 1974, in Fort Dodge, Iowa. She grew up on a farm in southern Iowa. Her father, Dan Porter, was a farmer and...
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Old Stone Chimney (redirect from Little Niagara Fort)
built as part of a two-story barracks on the site of the French "Fort du Portage," or "Fort Little Niagara," by Daniel Joncaire in 1750, when the Niagara...
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Nuku Hiva Campaign (redirect from Porter Expedition)
Porter, led the expedition to a fortress with seven-foot-high walls. A battle began when the Tai Pis ambushed the column in the jungle near the fort....
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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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California to be close to her mother Dorothy in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. At the time, Dorothy Porter was working on organizing her sources on William...
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March 1910 Troy Middleton enlisted into the 29th Infantry Regiment at Fort Porter in Buffalo, New York. He was put to work as a company clerk, and as a...
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the fort's original batteries, including Battery Mount Vernon, Battery Robinson, and Battery Sater, and Battery Porter (named after Lt. James Porter, an...
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moved south towards the fort to reconnoiter the fort and decided that an infantry assault would succeed. On January 15, Porter's gunboats opened fire on...
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Camp Porter, Mont. Troops from Fort Keogh changed monthly. October 17, 1881, Company A, Eleventh Infantry, left Camp Porter, Mont., en route to Fort Sully...
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States in March 1915, Eichelberger was posted to the 22nd Infantry at Fort Porter, New York. It too was sent to the Mexican border, and was based at Douglas...
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excludes the 1920 Rochester Jeffersons' victory over the non-league team Fort Porter, the Eagles' 64–0 defeat of the Cincinnati Reds remains the largest regular...
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British request. Porter had to sign terms of surrender. His men were granted the "honors of war" as they marched out of the surrendered fort, with right of...
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fall of 2011, Porter became the athletic director and football coach at Georgia's Point University. He was the head football coach at Fort Valley State...
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The Pilatus PC-6 Porter is a single-engined STOL utility aircraft designed by Pilatus Aircraft of Switzerland. First flown in 1959, the PC-6 was produced...
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around Niagara Falls, north of Porter-Barton Dock or Schlosser's Landing along the shoreline with the Niagara River. The fort was named for its first commander...
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Porter (August 15, 1929 – June 5, 2024) was an American football coach and college athletics administrator. A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Porter played...
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enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Jeffersons' 66–0 defeat of Fort Porter remains the largest regular season shutout victory in league history...
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collapsed into the ocean, creating a bay. This is the site of Fort Madison, set up by Porter in 1813. Media related to Taiohae at Wikimedia Commons "Les...
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Hammond Pros (0–1–0) 0 Rock Island Independents (3–0–0) 26 Douglas Park Fort Porter† 0 Rochester Jeffersons (2–0–0) 66 Rochester Baseball Park Week 4 October...
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the league championship in 1913 and 1914. Fort Porter 74th Infantry Division. A team based at Fort Porter from the time of its reactivation in 1917 to...
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Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport (IATA: FLL, ICAO: KFLL, FAA LID: FLL) is a major public airport in Broward County, Florida, United States...
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for an attack on the forts that were now in Farragut's rear. Commodore Porter, now in charge of the flotilla still below the forts, delivered a demand...
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a major. He was assigned to the 29th Infantry and made commander of Fort Porter, New York. He also served as Chief of Staff in the New York National...
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shore of Lake Ontario. Porter Center – A hamlet centrally located in the town on the Youngstown-Lockport Road (Route 93). Old Fort Niagara State Historic...
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Retrieved 2020-10-01. Porter, Larry C. (1966). A Historical Analysis of Cove Fort, Utah. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University. p. 33. Porter, Larry C (1966)...
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