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    Fort Jackson is a historic masonry fort located 40 miles (64 km) up river from the mouth of the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. It...
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  • Ione, Colorado Fort Jackson, Louisiana, an American Civil War–era fort Fort Jackson (Pennsylvania), a frontier and Revolutionary War fort in western Pennsylvania...
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    Fort Toulouse and Fort Jackson are two forts that shared the same site at the fork of the Coosa River and the Tallapoosa River, near Wetumpka, Alabama...
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    The battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip (April 18–28, 1862) was the decisive battle for possession of New Orleans in the American Civil War. The two...
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    31.072638; -93.080635 Fort Johnson, formerly Fort Polk, is a United States Army installation located in Vernon Parish, Louisiana, about 10 miles (15 km)...
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    Fort Livingston was a 19th-century coastal defense fort located on Grand Terre Island in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. The fort was named after Edward Livingston...
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    miles (64 km) upriver from its mouth in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, just opposite Fort Jackson on the other side of the river. It formerly served as military...
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    USS Fort Jackson was a wooden sidewheel steamer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. She was successful in enforcing the Union blockade...
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    Louisiana under the postwar "Third System", along with Fort Jackson, Louisiana and Fort Livingston, Louisiana. During the Seminole Wars in Florida through the...
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    New Orleans, Louisiana, formerly the site of a fort and later an amusement park. Archaeological investigations have discovered that the fort location was...
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    The Treaty of Fort Jackson (also known as the Treaty with the Creeks, 1814) was signed on August 9, 1814 at Fort Jackson near Wetumpka, Alabama following...
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    Capture of New Orleans (category St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana)
    construction of Fort Jackson, Louisiana, a star fort suggested by and named after Jackson. This fortress was intended to support Fort St. Philip and bar...
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    Island, Georgia. Fort Stanwix, Rome, New York Fort Ontario, Oswego, New York Fort Jackson, Louisiana Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana Fort Independence (Massachusetts)...
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    Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. The major cities that I-20 connects to include Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas; Shreveport, Louisiana; Jackson...
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    a pentagonal plan with five bastions, similar to the layout of Fort Jackson, Louisiana. It was designed for heavy cannon mounted en barbette (i.e. in...
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  • more members from using exactly the same name. Jackson was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and raised in Fort Worth, Texas. He played football and basketball...
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    Jackson Barracks is the headquarters of the Louisiana National Guard. It is located in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana. The base was established...
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    Louisiana, the Mississippi Territory, and the Muscogee Creek Confederacy. With President James Madison's approval, Jackson imposed the Treaty of Fort...
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    Louisianais), also known as Louisiana French, are Latin French people native to the states that were established out of French Louisiana. They are commonly referred...
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    The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane, lit. 'Sale of Louisiana') was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States...
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    three forts established by the U.S. Army to establish control over the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase territories west of the Mississippi River. Fort Madison...
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    Orleans, Fort Jackson and Fort St. Philip. A wealthy planter and slave holder, Moore acted aggressively to engineer the secession of Louisiana from the...
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    Louisiana, to protect the United States border with New Spain and to return order to the Neutral Strip. Originally named Cantonment Jesup, the fort operated...
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    Andrew Jackson Donelson Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. Owsley, Harriet Chappell (1982). "Andrew Jackson and His Ward, Andrew Jackson Donelson"...
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    in 1808 Fort Osage was constructed there. This stockade and trading post was one of the first U.S. military installations within the Louisiana Purchase...
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    Louisiana (French: Louisiane [lwizjan] ; Spanish: Luisiana [lwiˈsjana]; Louisiana Creole: Lwizyàn) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions...
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    is Fort Jackson, built in 1822 as recommended by General Andrew Jackson, hero of the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812. In 1861, Fort Jackson served...
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  • Fort De La Boulaye Site, also known as Fort Mississippi, is the site of a fort built by the French in south Louisiana in 1699–1700, to support their claim...
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    about the documents, he was charged with spying and imprisoned in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. Charles Heidsieck's imprisonment caused a diplomatic incident...
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  • Barracudas Edinburg Roadrunners El Paso Diablos Fort Worth Cats Greenville Bluesmen Jackson Senators (also Jackson DiamondKats) Lafayette Bullfrogs (also Beaumont...
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