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    Fort Ridgely was a frontier United States Army outpost from 1851 to 1867, built 1853–1854 in Minnesota Territory. The Sioux called it Esa Tonka. It was...
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    Fort Ridgely was an early battle in the Dakota War of 1862. As the closest U.S. military post to the Lower Sioux Agency, the lightly fortified Fort Ridgely...
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    stationed at Fort Ridgely) reinforced New Ulm. Residents continued to build barricades around the town. The Dakota attacked Fort Ridgely on August 20...
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    sent south to build Fort Dodge and would garrison the fort until the army closed it and sent E Co. to help construct Fort Ridgely. In 1850 Alexander Ramsey...
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    Fort Ridgely State Park is a state park of Minnesota, USA, on the Minnesota River south of Fairfax. It preserves Fort Ridgely, site of the Battle of Fort...
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  • Fort Ridgely Creek is a stream in Nicollet County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is a tributary of the Minnesota River. Fort Ridgely Creek flows...
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  • Look up ridgely in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ridgely may refer to: Ridgely, Maryland, U.S Ridgely Airpark Ridgely, Missouri, U.S Ridgely, Tennessee...
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  • Ridgely Township is a township in Nicollet County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 126 at the 2000 census. Ridgely Township was organized...
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    Ulm nor the first attack on Fort Ridgely... I was in the second fight at New Ulm and in the second attack on Fort Ridgely. At New Ulm I had but a few...
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    Sheehan, who had left Fort Ridgely the day before with 50 men of Company C, 5th Minnesota Infantry Regiment, en route to Fort Ripley. Captain Marsh's...
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    serving in its home state and the south, particularly at the Battles of Fort Ridgely, Corinth and Nashville. On October 23, 1861, Assistant Secretary of War...
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    commander of the Fort three times as well as at Fort Ridgely. He lost a hand in combat. Major Hannibal Day Also was commander of Fort Ridgely and would become...
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  • The Fort Ridgely and South Pass Wagon Road (also known as Nobles Trail) was a wagon trail that was intended to connect Fort Ridgely in Minnesota Territory...
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  • favor of an all-out attack on Fort Ridgely, a move which Little Six supported. They viewed the capture of Fort Ridgely as the key to gaining control over...
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    artillery led by Colonel Henry Hastings Sibley. After the Battle of Fort Ridgely and the Battle of New Ulm, Colonel Henry Hastings Sibley was planning...
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    settler deaths, with seven more killed while fleeing the agency for Fort Ridgely. Tensions had run high in the weeks leading up to the attack. Many eastern...
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    Mou-Zoo-Mau-Nee and the Mille Lacs band at Fort Ridgely cemetery in 1914 for their service to the State at Fort Ripley and their offer to fight the Sioux...
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    heavy snows, a relief expedition from Fort Dodge failed to arrive in time. Another expedition from Fort Ridgely in Minnesota pursued Inkpaduta and his...
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    the county during the 1862 Dakota War, most notably at the Battle of Fort Ridgely. The Minnesota River flows eastward along the southern border of Nicollet...
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    soldiers and families at Fort Ridgely in 1861 and 1862. Oscar G. Wall, a member of Captain John Marsh's company stationed at Fort Ridgely, described Betsey picking...
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    to the Big Sioux/Missouri, the Fort Ridgely and South Pass Wagon Road and the Wagon Road from Fort Ripley to Fort Abercrombie. Private trails were cut...
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    Retrieved August 22, 2010. "Fort Ridgely State Park". Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved August 22, 2010. "Fort Ridgely State Park". Rustic...
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    Mississippi rivers to create a military reservation. The construction of Fort Snelling followed between 1819 and 1825. Its soldiers built a grist mill...
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    State Highways 4 and 19 are two of the main arterial routes in the city. Fort Ridgely State Park is nearby. Fairfax was platted in 1882, and named after Fairfax...
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    Minnesota River Valley Scenic Byway Alliance. Retrieved July 21, 2011. "Fort Ridgely". Minnesota Historical Society. Retrieved August 16, 2007. "Report to...
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    was organized into service at Camp Release, Hutchinson, Glencoe, Fort Ridgely, Fort Snelling and St. Peter, Minnesota, between August 15 and October 31...
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  • for the steamboat, the West Newton, which made the trip from Fort Snelling to Fort Ridgely in 1853. "This was the first steamer that had ascended the Minnesota...
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    monies arrived at St. Paul, Minnesota for distribution and were sent to Fort Ridgely on the 17th, but by then it was too late. Historians note actions by...
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    quarter mile east. During the 1862 hostilities the Sioux attacked Fort Abercrombie, Fort Ridgely, New Ulm, Lower Sioux Indian Agency, and all of the white settlements...
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    character actor with over 175 film credits. Ridgely was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of John Ridgely Rea. Ridgely's elementary schooling was in Hinsdale...
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