Fort Stanwix was a colonial fort whose construction commenced on August 26, 1758, under the direction of British General John Stanwix, at the location...
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The Siege of Fort Stanwix (also known as Fort Schuyler) began on August 2, 1777, and ended on August 22, 1777. Fort Stanwix, at the western end of the...
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Stanwix is a district of Carlisle, Cumbria in North West England. The ward population (called Stanwix Urban) had a population taken at the 2011 census...
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The Treaty of Fort Stanwix was a treaty signed between representatives from the Iroquois and Great Britain (accompanied by negotiators from New Jersey...
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1725, he succeeded to the estates of his uncle Thomas Stanwix and adopted the name of Stanwix. Stanwix entered the army in 1706, rose to a captain of the...
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erected in the 1750s to defend the waterway, in particular the British Fort Stanwix (1763) built in New York. Following the American Revolution, the settlement...
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The Treaty of Fort Stanwix was a treaty finalized on October 22, 1784, between the United States and Native Americans from the six nations of the Iroquois...
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Stanwix Station, in western Arizona, was a stop on the Butterfield Overland Mail Stagecoach line built in the later 1850s near the Gila River about 80...
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"The Stanwix Hall Tragedy" New York Times, November 29, 1855, page 3, "The Stanwix Hall Tragedy" New York Times, December 1, 1855, page 2, "The Stanwix Hall...
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Stanwix Street is a street nearly half a mile long near The Point in Downtown Pittsburgh. Running south from the Allegheny River to the Monongahela River...
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Brigadier General Thomas Stanwix (1670 – 14 March 1725) was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1702 to 1725. He...
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11 Stanwix Street, formerly known as the Westinghouse Tower, is one of the major distinctive and recognizable features of Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
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Stanwix Rural is a civil parish in the Carlisle district of Cumbria, England. It contains 63 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage...
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Stanwix before the British arrived and laid siege to Fort Stanwix (August 2, 1777 to August 22, 1777). After the successful defense of Fort Stanwix the...
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Stanwix Rural is a civil parish in the City of Carlisle district of Cumbria, England, immediately to the north east of Carlisle itself – parts of the...
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Battle of Oriskany (section Sortie from Fort Stanwix)
Tryon County militia and Oneidas marching to relieve the siege of Fort Stanwix was ambushed by a contingent of Britain's Indigenous allies and Loyalists...
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Kentucky (US: /kənˈtʌki/ kən-TUK-ee, UK: /kɛn-/ ken-), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the...
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Peter Gansevoort (section Siege of Fort Stanwix)
best known for leading the resistance to Barry St. Leger's Siege of Fort Stanwix in 1777. Gansevoort was also the maternal grandfather of Moby-Dick author...
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Davies Bay (redirect from Stanwix Ridge)
Kinsey. The Wilson Hills are inland from the bay. Coastal features include Stanwix Ridge, McLeod Glacier, Arthurson Ridge, Cook Ridge, Paternostro Glacier...
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Agua Caliente, Arizona (redirect from Stanwix Ranch, Arizona)
the route to Tucson. So too was what Union Army reports called Stanwix Ranch or Stanwix Station which became the site of the westernmost skirmish of the...
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Britain as New South Wales. 1777 – British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements. 1780 – James Cook's...
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Fort Frederica Fort Matanzas Fort McHenry Fort Monroe Fort Pulaski Fort Stanwix Fort Union Fossil Butte Freedom Riders George Washington Birthplace George...
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of Liberty National monuments African Burial Ground Castle Clinton Fort Stanwix Governors Island Stonewall National Trails Appalachian Trail North Country...
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supporters of the revolutionaries. After the war ended, the 1784 Treaty of Fort Stanwix kicked off a series of treaties and purchases that saw the Iroquois cede...
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Explorers Range (redirect from Stanwix Peak)
Sheehan Glacier and Rastorguev Glacier, include, from north to south, Stanwix Peak, Frolov Ridge, Mount Cantello, Mount Keith, Mount Hager, Gary Peak...
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Pilgrimage in the Holy Land was published in 1876. In 1886, his other son Stanwix died of apparent tuberculosis, and Melville retired. During his last years...
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Appalachia were forbidden to settlement by colonists. The Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1768 explicitly reserved lands north and west of the Ohio as Native...
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considered to be one of the most influential leaders of the Oneida people. Fort Stanwix, built near the Oneida Carry on Oneida land in the present state of New...
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facilitated negotiations with representatives from the Six Nations in Fort Stanwix, New York. The treaty produced in 1784 resulted in Indians giving up their...
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Turtleheart (section Treaty of Fort Stanwix)
Lenape Chief Killbuck represented the Delaware Nation at the Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1768. Little is known about the exact date of his birth or death. Turtleheart...
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