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    Fort Leavenworth (/ˈlɛvənˌwɜːrθ/) is a United States Army installation located in Leavenworth County, Kansas, in the city of Leavenworth. Built in 1827...
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    Barracks (USDB), colloquially known as Leavenworth, is a military correctional facility located on Fort Leavenworth, a United States Army post in Kansas...
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    Disciplinary Barracks (USDB), a military facility located on the adjacent Fort Leavenworth army post. Located 4 miles (6.4 km) north of the FCI, the USDB is the...
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    Leavenworth. Leavenworth, founded in 1854, was the first city incorporated in the territory of Kansas. The city developed south of Fort Leavenworth,...
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    Indians. He established Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. The city of Leavenworth, Kansas; Leavenworth County, Kansas; and the Leavenworth Penitentiary are named...
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    Elsie Garris attended the induction ceremony. On November 30, 2018, Fort Leavenworth dedicated a monument to the women of the 6888th Central Postal Directory...
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    after Henry Leavenworth, a general in the Indian Wars who established Fort Leavenworth. For many millennia, the Great Plains of North America was inhabited...
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    Artillery, 1919-41. Fort Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute Press. p. 1,109. Stanton, pp. 434–481 "Air Defense Artillery" (PDF). Fort Sill. US Army Fires...
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  • The Fort Leavenworth Lamp is a digital newspaper serving the military community living at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas since 1971. It serves as a record...
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    victim's family to spare his life, Kennedy refused; Bennett was hanged at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1961. Bennett was the fourth of eight children born to a...
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    Fort Leavenworth Military Prison Cemetery (also known as the United States Disciplinary Barracks Cemetery) is a cemetery maintained by the Fort Leavenworth...
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    Fort Sully was an earthwork artillery battery built on the plateau of Hancock Hill, the highest hill west of Fort Leavenworth, in September and October...
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  • attended the dedication of a monument honoring the 6888th Battalion at Fort Leavenworth with four other surviving members. In 2019, she was recognized for...
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  • limits Roman Catholic Diocese of Leavenworth Fort Leavenworth, a U.S. Army base in Leavenworth, Kansas Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery, a cemetery on...
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    its streets. Leavenworth was a relative of U.S. Army colonel Henry Leavenworth, the founder of Fort Leavenworth and namesake of Leavenworth, Kansas. The...
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    Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located on Fort Leavenworth, a United States Army installation north of Leavenworth...
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    there. The Army then sent Colonel Kearny with a detachment of men from Fort Leavenworth up the Missouri to the area with orders to construct an outpost at...
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    frontier. On September 21, 1866, the 10th Cavalry Regiment was formed at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The nickname "Buffalo Soldiers" was purportedly given to the...
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    white settlement with the exception of Fort Leavenworth. The Fort was established in 1827 by Henry Leavenworth with the 3rd U.S. Infantry from St. Louis...
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    assignment, he attended the Army's Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, graduating in 1964. Immediately following this, the Army gave...
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    judge was C. W. Raymond. Bennie was sentenced to the U.S. prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, for his natural life. Bennie was released after eleven years...
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    concern—before being transferred to the Joint Regional Correctional Facility at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where she could interact with other detainees. In February...
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  • (Tampa, Florida) Army University (Fort Leavenworth, Kansas) Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) (Fort Leavenworth, Kansas) Command and General Staff...
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    Command and General Staff College (CGSC or, obsolete, USACGSC) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, is a graduate school for United States Army and sister service...
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    settlement of non-indigenous people in Kansas occurred in 1827 at Fort Leavenworth. The pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political...
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    October 14, 2016. Retrieved September 13, 2016. "Military Installations (Fort Leavenworth, Kansas)". Department of Defense. Retrieved September 13, 2016. Wikimedia...
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    Correctional Facility (J.R.C.F.) is a military prison at 831 Sabalu Road, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas which opened in 2010. The 224,736-square-foot (20,878.7 m2)...
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    buried on the battlefield, but were reinterred in Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1877. A marble slab on the Little Bighorn...
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    Hasan is incarcerated at the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, awaiting execution. Nidal Hasan was born on September 8, 1970...
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  • Asim Malik (category Fort Leavenworth)
    (Hons) from the University of Balochistan in 1999 and then studied at Fort Leavenworth in the United States, where he has written thesis on Mountain Warfare...
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