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    Fort Howe (1777 — present historic site) was a British fort built in Saint John, New Brunswick during the American Revolution. It was erected shortly...
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    Fort Menagoueche, which was reconstructed as Fort Frederick. Following the pillaging and burning of Fort Frederick by American Privateers, Fort Howe was...
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    George Augustus Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe (c. 1725 – 6 July 1758) was a career officer and a brigadier general in the British Army. He was described by...
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  • Georgia was Fort Howe (previously known as Fort Barrington), on the banks of the Altamaha River, and the northernmost Florida outpost was at Fort Tonyn, in...
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    General George Howe, was killed just before the 1758 Battle of Carillon at Fort Ticonderoga. Another brother, Admiral Richard Howe, rose to become one...
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    Fort Barrington, briefly renamed Fort Howe after its capture, was a mid-18th-century frontier fort. It was used and garrisoned for several conflicts, including...
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    places. Fort Howe in Saint John, New Brunswick was designated a national historic park in 1914, named the "Fort Howe National Park". The fort was not...
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    commander of the fort, refused to abandon it, believing his troops would be able to defend it from the British. Howe's forces attacked the fort before Washington...
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    Scotia, to Fort Edward (Nova Scotia), then Fort Hughes, Fort Anne at Annapolis Royal and then to Fort Howe at Saint John, New Brunswick, and then onward...
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    against such attacks, the 84th was garrisoned at forts around the maritime provinces. One such fort was Fort Howe, at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy at what is...
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    Admiral of the Fleet Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, KG (8 March 1726 – 5 August 1799), was a British naval officer. After serving throughout the War of...
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    General William Howe moved to seize the fort from Patriot command and thus open a route to extend British control of New York. At the time, Howe commanded a...
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    Fort Frederick (1758—1777, earlier Fort Menagoueche, superseded by Fort Howe in 1777) was a British fort at what is now Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada...
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  • were Fort Beauséjour – Fort Cumberland and Fort Gaspareaux in 1920. However, the first historical property in the national park system was Fort Howe National...
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  • Fort Frederick Fort Nashwaak Fort Gaspareaux Fort Howe Fort Meductic Fort Menagoueche Fort Amherst Castle Hill Fort Carbonear Cuper's Cove Fort Fort Frederick...
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    Fort Nashwaak Fort Bedford Fort Chesterfield Fort Dease Lake Fort McMurray Fort Vermillion Fort Howe Fort Lajoie Fort Meductic Fort Buckingham Fort Connolly...
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  • Frederick with a fort he built on higher ground, which was named Fort Howe. At this fort, Studholme was helpful to Michael Francklin in ensuring peace with...
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    and his 50 men, helped by local inhabitants, began the construction of Fort Howe. In 1783, two settlements, Carleton and Parrtown, were established by...
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  • Loyalist-dominated communities of Parr Town and Carleton developed around Fort Howe. Members of the Black Watch settled here in 1783. In 1785, both towns...
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    commanded about 360 troops from the Georgia Continental Battalions at Fort Howe to march to Darien, Georgia. There they boarded three Georgia Navy galleys:...
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    vehicles designed by Howe & Howe Technologies (now part of Textron Systems) for evaluation by the United States Army. The Howe brothers started the Ripsaw...
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    of two separate sinkings (the merchant vessels Oporto and Fort Howe), of which the Fort Howe effort was in conjunction with HMS Alisma. Spiraea was sold...
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    two communities founded by Loyalists from America in the vicinity of Fort Howe. The two communities later merged to form the city of Saint John, New...
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  • Témiscouata. This road was important for improved royal mail service to Fort Howe, New Brunswick. Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online...
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    further plunder the Saint John settlement), and Fort Howe was built under his auspices in late 1777. The fort protected Saint John for the rest of the war...
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  • Oscar Howe (Mazuha Hokshina or "Trader Boy", May 13, 1915 – October 7, 1983) was a Yanktonai Dakota artist from South Dakota, who became well known for...
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  • was part of a commission to treat with the Maliseet and Mi'kmaq near Fort Howe; which area had come under attack by American privateers the year before...
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    The Battle of Fort Cumberland (also known as the Eddy Rebellion) was an attempt by a small number of militia commanded by Jonathan Eddy to bring the American...
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    American-born woman, Anne Reid (1774–1848), whom he had met while stationed at Fort Howe in Saint John. Their children were Anne (1795–1877), William (1798–1878)...
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    William H. Howe, one of its soldiers, of desertion, found him guilty of murder, and imprisoned him famously at Fort Mifflin from January 1864. Howe led an...
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