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    Fort Independence is a granite bastion fort that provided harbor defenses for Boston, Massachusetts, located on Castle Island. Fort Independence is one...
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  • Colorado Fort Independence (Massachusetts), fort located at the mouth of Boston harbor on Castle Island Fort Independence (Missouri), in Independence, Missouri;...
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    U.S. state of Massachusetts. Due to extensive environmental contamination it was listed as a superfund site in 1989. Most of the fort's land was sold...
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    after the beginning of the American Civil War. Fort Warren defended the harbor in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1861 through the end of World War II, and...
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    Fort Washington, also known as Fort Washington Park, is a historic site at 95 Waverly Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was built by soldiers of the...
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    20th Infantry Regiment (United States) (category 1862 establishments in Massachusetts)
    Lai massacre. The regiment was organized on 6 June 1862 at Fort Independence (Massachusetts), as the 2nd Battalion of the 11th Infantry, one of the nine...
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    Environmental Affairs. Retrieved August 22, 2013. "Fort Independence". Object of the Month. Massachusetts History Society. Retrieved February 2, 2014. Boston...
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    Fort Stanwix, Rome, New York Fort Ontario, Oswego, New York Fort Jackson, Louisiana Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana Fort Independence (Massachusetts),...
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    2018. "John Adams: Independence". Home Box Office. Archived from the original on May 8, 2018. Retrieved May 8, 2018. "Independence". Fort Wayne Journal Gazette...
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    (today's 16th Infantry Regiment) was initially organized at Fort Independence, Massachusetts, in the summer and fall of 1861. That October, the regiment...
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    damage across Massachusetts. Massachusetts was a center of the movement for independence from Great Britain. Colonists in Massachusetts had long had uneasy...
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    1778. In 1776 a fort called "Fort Independence" (name transferred to the current fort in 1797) was built on Allerton Point, and in 1901 Fort Revere was built...
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    Fort Ticonderoga (/taɪkɒndəˈroʊɡə/), formerly Fort Carillon, is a large 18th-century star fort built by the French at a narrows near the south end of Lake...
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    results for Thomas Hisgen in Massachusetts, the Independence League moved to establish a national presence as the Independence Party ahead of the election...
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    Fort Revere is an 8-acre (3.2 ha) historic site situated on a small peninsula located in Hull, Massachusetts. It is situated on Telegraph Hill in Hull...
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  • 1821, when the 1st Regiment of Artillery was organized at Fort Independence, Massachusetts, from existing companies dating back to the War of 1812 or...
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    Americans to withdraw to Fort Ticonderoga, while in December an uprising in Nova Scotia sponsored by Massachusetts was defeated at Fort Cumberland. These failures...
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    the fort at Newport inland for safekeeping without incident. In Massachusetts, rumors flew that troops from Boston were headed to reinforce Fort William...
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    Fort Independence, Massachusetts. In 1868, he was assigned as Ordnance officer on the staff of the newly organized U.S. Army Artillery School at Fort...
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  • current Fort Independence in Boston Harbor Fort William (Salem, Massachusetts), 1643 fort on the site of Fort Pickering Fort Amsterdam (once named Fort William)...
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  • Fort) Fort Heath Fort Independence Fort Juniper Fort Lee Long Point Battery Fort Miller (Fort Darby) Fort Nichols (Fort Merrimac) Old Stone Fort Fort...
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    Day was on duty at Hancock Barracks, Maine and he served at Fort Independence, Massachusetts in 1836. He served on recruiting duty at various posts from...
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    13th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was organized at Fort Independence in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 16, 1861. It left for Washington, D.C., on July...
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  • Bibb Fort Bowyer Fort Carney Fort Claiborne Fort Condé, open to the public Fort Crawford Fort Dale Fort Decatur Fort Easley Fort Gaines Fort Glass Fort Hampton...
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    densely populated neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, located south and east of the Fort Point Channel and abutting Dorchester Bay....
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    was dragged across Massachusetts to the heights commanding Boston Harbor, forcing the British to withdraw from that city. In 1775, Fort Ticonderoga's location...
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    Independence Day, known colloquially as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States which commemorates the ratification of the Declaration...
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    Fort Defiance was a fort that existed from 1794 to after 1865 on Fort Point in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The location protecting the inner harbor was...
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    fifty-nine captured cannons (taken from Fort Ticonderoga and Fort Crown Point) from upstate New York to Boston, Massachusetts; took 56 days to complete (December...
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    Fort Sewall is a historic coastal fortification in Marblehead, Massachusetts. It is located at Gale's Head, the northeastern point of the main Marblehead...
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