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    The Castillo de San Marcos (Spanish for "St. Mark's Castle") is the oldest masonry fort in the continental United States; it is located on the western...
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    The 1777 Siege of Fort Ticonderoga occurred between the 2nd and 6 July 1777 at Fort Ticonderoga, near the southern end of Lake Champlain in the state of...
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    represented the British) and Lieutenant Colonel Laurens (who represented the Americans) and Marquis de Noailles (who represented the French). To make sure...
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    Retrieved 13 December 2017. Pieper, Thomas I.; Gidney, James B. (1976). Fort Laurens, 1778-1779: The Revolutionary War in Ohio. Kent State University Press...
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    Bird and warriors of the Wyandot, Mingo, Munsee, and Delaware laid siege to Fort Laurens. On October 1, 1779, Girty and Alexander McKee, leading a large...
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    M. Simmons (2 coys) Light Troops commanded by Lieutenant colonel John Laurens (1 strengthened coy) Commanding General, Lieutenant-general Count Estaing...
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  • under Laurens' command. Laurens and his troops stopped for the night at a plantation house near the Combahee River, the home of a friend of Laurens. They...
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    "Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du siège de Gibraltar, par l'auteur des batteries flottantes." Soon after the siege the town of Gibraltar was reconstructed...
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  • the Second Continental Congress: John Hancock (until October 29), Henry Laurens (starting November 1) January 2 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of...
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    The Waco siege, also known as the Waco massacre, was the siege by U.S. federal government and Texas state law enforcement officials of a compound belonging...
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