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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Interstate 20 (section Louisiana)
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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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 (French: Louisiane [lwizjan] ; Spanish: Luisiana [lwiˈsjana]; Louisiana Creole: Lwizyàn) is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions...
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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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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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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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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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French Louisianians (redirect from Louisiana French people)
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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At the start of May, Jackson won the District of Columbia and Louisiana primaries. More Virginia caucus-goers supported Jackson than any other candidate...
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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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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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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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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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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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column. After a skirmish at Middletown, Jackson cut off a portion of the Union troops, and the 6th Louisiana captured two Union battle flags. 25 May saw...
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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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