Examples of Fort McHenry in the following topics:
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- The British also attempted to attack Baltimore by sea on September 13 but were unable to reduce Fort McHenry at the entrance to Baltimore Harbor, due to recent fortifications.
- The Battle of Fort McHenry was no battle at all.
- All the lights were extinguished in Baltimore the night of the attack, and the fort was bombarded for 25 hours.
- The only light was given off by the exploding shells over Fort McHenry, illuminating the flag that was still flying over the fort.
- Describe the burning of Washington, D.C. and the subsequent battles of Baltimore and Fort McHenry
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- Two prominent instances in which captured fugitives were set free by
abolitionists include John McHenry in Syracuse, NY in 1851 and Shadrach Minkins
in Boston of the same year.
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- However, his campaign managers,
James Farley and Louis McHenry Howe, convinced House Speaker John Nance Garner of Texas to drop out of the race.
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- After seizing Ticonderoga, a small detachment captured the nearby Fort Crown Point on May 11.
- The French had destroyed the fort's powder magazine when they abandoned the fort, and it had fallen further into disrepair since then.
- After the war began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, the British General Thomas Gage realized the fort would require fortification; simultaneously, several colonists had the idea of capturing the fort.
- Eventually, as many as 400 men arrived at the fort, which they plundered for liquor and other provisions.
- Washington eventually chose the young Henry Knox to transport heavy weaponry that had been captured at Fort Ticonderoga to the Continental Army camps outside of Boston.
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- The Treaty of Fort Stanwix was one of several treaties signed between Native Americans and the United States after the American Revolution.
- The Treaty of Fort Stanwix was a treaty signed in October 1784 between the United States and its Native Americans at Fort Stanwix (located in present-day Rome, New York).
- 1785 Treaty of Fort McIntosh with Wyandotte, Delaware, Chippewa and Ottawa leaders for lands in Ohio
- 1786 Treaty of Fort Finney with Shawnee leaders for portions of Ohio
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- After the war, the Treaty of Fort Jackson was signed in August, 1814.
- Red Stick leaders like William Weatherford (Red Eagle), Peter McQueen, and Menawa, were all allies of the British.
- On August 30, 1813, Peter McQueen and William Weatherford, both of whom were Upper Creek chiefs, led an attack on Fort Mims, near Mobile, Alabama.
- The incident became known as the Fort Mims Massacre.
- The Red Sticks subsequently attacked other forts in the area, including Fort Sinquefield.
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- Fort Monroe in Virginia, Fort Sumter in South Carolina, and Fort Pickens, Fort Jefferson, and Fort Taylor, all in Florida, were the remaining Union-held forts in the Confederacy, and Lincoln was determined to hold them all.
- Under orders from Confederate President Jefferson Davis, troops controlled by the Confederate government bombarded Fort Sumter on April 12, forcing its capitulation.
- Most Northerners rallied behind Lincoln's call for all states to send troops to recapture the forts and to preserve the Union.
- Grant, who won victories at Forts Henry and Donelson, the Battle of Shiloh, and the Battle of Vicksburg, which cemented Union control of the Mississippi River and is considered one of the turning points of the war.
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- McClellan was initially successful
against Confederate General Joseph E.
- McClellan rebutted this decision in a 22-page letter
to the President, outlining his Urbanna plan.
- Although the President doubted
the utility of the plan, he allowed McClellan to enact Urbanna and named
specific officers as corps commanders to report under McClellan directly.
- McClellan
altered his plan so that his forces would land at Fort Monroe and move
northwest up the Virginia Peninsula, but Congress and the press were highly
critical of what was perceived as a missed opportunity to catch the Confederates
in their previous positions near Washington.
- On March 11, President Lincoln removed McClellan from his
position as general chief of the army, ostensibly so McClellan could focus on
the Urbanna Plan, though later in his life McClellan would argue the decision
was made to ensure the failure of his campaign.
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- In 1609, the Dutch East India Company commissioned English explorer Henry Hudson who, in an attempt to find the fabled northwest passage to the Indies, discovered and claimed for the VOC parts of the present-day United States and Canada.
- After some early trading expeditions, the first Dutch settlement in the Americas was founded at Fort Nassau in 1615, near present-day Albany.
- In 1626, the Director of the Dutch West India Company, Peter Minuit, purchased the island of Manhattan from the Lenape and started the construction of Fort Amsterdam, which grew to become the main port and capital, New Amsterdam .
- Fort Orange was renamed Fort Albany (from James's Scottish title).
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- Using trading posts and forts, both the British and the French claimed the vast territory between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, known as the Ohio Country.
- A major event in the war was Edward Braddock's campaign against the French at Fort Duquesne in 1755.
- This stunning British defeat heralded a string of major French victories over the next few years, at Fort Oswego, Fort William Henry, Fort Duquesne, and Carillon.
- The sole British successes in the early years of the war came in 1755, at the Battle of Lake George, which secured the Hudson Valley; and in the taking of Fort Beauséjour (which protected the Nova Scotia frontier).
- The French were driven from many frontier posts such as Fort Niagara, and the key Fortress Louisbourg fell to the British in 1758.