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    Fort Amsterdam is a historic fort on the island of Saint Martin, near the Sint Maarten town of Philipsburg. The triangular colonial stone fort was built...
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  • sighting the island he named it Isla de San Martín after Saint Martin of Tours because it was November 11, St. Martin Day.[citation needed] However, though...
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    diseases brought by the Europeans. In 1631, the Dutch built Fort Amsterdam on Saint Martin and the Dutch West India Company began mining salt there. Tensions...
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  • commander Peter Stuyvesant, later the governor of New Amsterdam, unsuccessfully besieged Fort Amsterdam and was forced to retreat with the loss of hundreds...
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    (IATA: SXM, ICAO: TNCM) is the main airport on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin. The airport is located on the Dutch side of the island, in the country...
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    Makassar Fort Victoria, Ambon Fort Amsterdam, Ambon Fort Nassau, Banda Islands Fort Belgica, Banda Islands Fort Revenge, Banda Islands Fort Hollandia...
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    divided island of Saint Martin, while the northern 56% of the island constitutes the French overseas collectivity of Saint Martin. Sint Maarten's capital...
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    Isaac de l'Ostal de Saint-Martin (or Lostal) (c. 1629 – 14 April 1696) was a French chevalier, who came in an unknown year from the Béarn to the Dutch...
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  • Fort Idrakpur Fort Jangalbari Fort Jinjira Palace (also used as a fort) Lalbagh Fort Mahasthangarh Fort Sonakanda Fort Saint Ann's Fort Charles Fort Babruysk...
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    from the Middle Ages Muizenfort, (Mice Fort) a 19th-century fortification part of the Stelling van Amsterdam Fort Pampus Island is an artificial island...
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  • (1534–1763) Present-day United States The Fort Saint Louis (Texas) (1685–1689) Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (1650–1733) Fort Caroline in French Florida (occupation...
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    Prince-de-Monaco Île Ronde Île Saint-Lanne Gramont Île Swains (see Iles Leygues) Île Violette Île Amsterdam Île Saint-Paul Basse-Terre Îlet à Cochons...
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    the natives, as was company policy. He ordered the construction of Fort Amsterdam at its southern tip, around which grew the heart of the province called...
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    Saint Martin and Saint Barthélemy. The new status took effect on 22 February 2007, when the law was published in the Journal Officiel. Saint Martin remains...
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  • New Castle – English 1623: Fort Nassau – Dutch 1624: St. Kitts – English 1624: Governors Island – Dutch 1624: New Amsterdam – Dutch 1625: Cape Breton –...
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    international trade. Two historic forts bear witness to Philipsburg's strategic importance in St. Maarten's history: Fort Amsterdam and Fort Willem. The main shopping...
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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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    serving the Twin Cities in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is located in Fort Snelling Unorganized Territory. Although situated within the unorganized...
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    (of Fort Orange and New Amsterdam) were primarily interested in fur trading. The Iroquois had allied with the Dutch of Fort Orange and New Amsterdam, who...
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  • New Netherland (Nieuw-Amsterdam / New York) Greenland Claim to Labrador Claim and settlement in Terra Nova (Newfoundland) Fort Ross, California Kauai...
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    the island) Ruette Brayes (leads to St Martin's and the south of the island) Fort Road (leads to St Martin's) The following coastal roads (listed from...
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    connecting with Fort George Avenue south of Highbridge Park at West 193rd Street. On the north side of Highbridge Park, unconnected to Amsterdam Avenue on the...
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    of Saint-Martin in the siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré (1627) but were repulsed after three months. Small French royal boats managed to supply St Martin in...
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    the city of Utrecht. The most dominant of these was the Cathedral of Saint Martin, inside the old Roman fortress. The construction of the present Gothic...
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    Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the River Neva...
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    expanded forts along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, including adding to Fort Bellefontaine, and constructing Fort Armstrong (1816) and Fort Edwards...
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  • stage through the smoke" as the group performed. Fort Worth Star-Telegram's Mac Engel claimed that Martin showed all of the skills that make him one of the...
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    and Dutch Garden (Harman's Colony)   Military forts and watch-houses   Company's orchards, near the Fort of Good Hope   Jan van Riebeeck's farms   Boundary...
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    Harris, MAJ Lucas (2018). ISIS vs. Al Qaeda: An Ideological Comparison. Fort Leavenworth, KS: US Army Command and General Staff College. pp. 2, 8, 9,...
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  • fortificación y geoestrategia en Saint-Domingue entre 1665 y 1748". Gladius. 39: 147. doi:10.3989/gladius.2019.08. ISSN 1988-4168. "Fort Montagu, Nassau". 2009-04-23...
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