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    Battery Steele (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Battery Construction #102) is a United States military fortification on Peaks Island, Portland, Maine, in...
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    installation, including the largest structure, Battery Steele, which housed two 16-inch (406-mm) guns. When Battery Steele's guns were first tested, windows on the...
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    preserve Battery Steele, an historic United States military fortification built on Peaks Island during World War II. After acquiring Battery Steele, PILP...
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    During World War II, Battery Steele was constructed in Portland on Peaks Island, making Fort Preble obsolete. Battery Steele itself was abandoned after...
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  • during the U.S. Civil War, died 5 Sep 1894. Battery Steele was named in honor of Bvt. MG Frederick Steele, U.S. Army, who served with distinction during...
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    of a modernization of the Harbor Defenses of Portland, centered on Battery Steele on Peaks Island, which the fire control towers and SCR-296 radar on...
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    time the battery was completed, it was not armed. It was part of a modernization of the Harbor Defenses of Portland, centered on Battery Steele on Peaks...
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    the academy in Rogers in 1894. Steele joined the United States Army as a private on August 27, 1895. He served in Battery A, 5th Artillery Regiment and...
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    Fort Scammel 1808 House Island, Portland, ME Fort Williams 1872 Fort Williams Park, Cape Elizabeth, ME Battery Steele 1942 Peaks Island, Portland, ME...
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    construction began on Battery Steele (also called Battery 102) at the Peaks Island Military Reservation with two 16-inch (406 mm) guns; this battery was substantially...
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    precise position of enemy vessels to batteries in Casco Bay, notably Battery Steele with its 16-inch guns. A battery of four 155 mm guns, most likely from...
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    Arkansas under Major General Frederick Steele. The Confederates abandoned Little Rock on September 10, and Ruffner's Battery saw action during the retreat as...
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    The Steele Point Battery is a small fort, on the shores of Port Jackson in the eastern Sydney suburb of Vaucluse, Australia. Talk of the need for harbour...
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    1945 the fort was replaced by the 16-inch Battery Steele on Peaks Island and a few other more recent batteries. Fort Williams received its last guns in...
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    scrapped in 1942; Fort Preble was superseded by new defenses centered on Battery Steele on Peaks Island. Only one 3-inch gun remained, which was removed in...
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    Battery Steele...
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    forts would soon be removed and scrapped. A modernization centered on Battery Steele on Peaks Island was implemented, and by the end of 1943 all guns and...
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  • batteries were redesignated, with the light batteries becoming numbered artillery batteries and the heavy batteries at the forts becoming coast artillery companies...
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    USS Steele (BDE-8/DE-8) was an Evarts-class short-hull destroyer escort in the service of the United States Navy. John M. Steele was born on 24 August...
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  • Distilling - Biddeford, Kennebunk, Portland, and Wells - Opened in 2018 Battery Steele Brewing - Portland - Opened in 2017 Baxter Brewing Company - Lewiston...
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    gun batteries that had served for 25–45 years would be scrapped. The 16-inch battery that anchored the Harbor Defenses of Portland was Battery Steele on...
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  • Mansion museum opens. Portland street car system dismantled. 1942 - Battery Steele built. 1944 - A-26 Invader crash near Portland airport was Maine's worst...
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  • Andrew Steele is an astrobiologist at the Geophysical Laboratory at Carnegie Institution for Science. He uses traditional and biotechnological approaches...
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  • Leigh Anna Steele (Sandia National Labs) Levi Thompson (University of Michigan) Lynn Trahey (Argonne National Lab) Steven Visco (PolyPlus Battery Company)...
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    Apple Watch (section Battery)
    from the original on September 28, 2019. Retrieved September 29, 2019. Steele, Chandra (October 2, 2018). "The Best Apple Watch Bands". PCMag. Archived...
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    acting career, he rose to popularity in the television series Remington Steele (1982–1987). After the conclusion of the series, Brosnan appeared in films...
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    Conrad". tonymedley.com. Retrieved October 1, 2017. Steele, Shadoe (April 25, 2007). "Shadoe Steele's Interview with Robert Conrad". Entercom Radio Network...
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  • New York City. The band contained future Type O Negative members Peter Steele (then billed under his birth name, Peter Ratajczyk) on bass and vocals and...
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    was invented by Donald Steele and Robert Emmark from Electro Signal Lab and patented in 1972. In 1995, the 10-year-lithium-battery-powered smoke alarm was...
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    the battery participated in Frederick Steele's expedition to Little Rock, Arkansas, being engaged at Bayou Fourche. In spring 1864, the battery took...
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