Examples of Fort Moultrie in the following topics:
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- The Battle of Fort Sumter was the first armed conflict of the Civil War.
- The Battle of Fort Sumter was the first battle
of the American Civil War.
- Under the cover of darkness on December 26, six days after
South Carolina declared its secession, Major Robert Anderson received orders
from the federal government to abandon the indefensible Fort Moultrie and relocate
his command to Fort Sumter.
- On January 9, 1861, as the Star of the West
approached Charleston Harbor, batteries at Morris Island and Fort Moultrie
opened fire, forcing it to withdraw.
- At about 7:00 a.m., Captain Abner
Doubleday, the fort's second in command, was given the honor of firing the
first shot in defense of the fort.
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- The war effectively ended with the Treaty of Fort Jackson (August 1814), in which General Andrew Jackson insisted that the Creek confederacy cede more than 21 million acres of land from southern Georgia and central Alabama.
- According to the Treaty of Moultrie Creek of 1823, the Seminoles were required to leave northern Florida and were confined to a large reservation in the center of the Florida peninsula.
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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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- The capture of Fort Ticonderoga occurred in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War when a small force of Green Mountain Boys, led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold, overcame a small British garrison at the fort and looted the personal belongings of the garrison.
- After seizing Ticonderoga, a small detachment captured the nearby Fort Crown Point on May 11.
- The French had destroyed the powder magazine when they abandoned the fort, and the fort 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.
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- The Battle of Fort McHenry was no battle at all.
- British guns and rockets bombarded the fort and then moved out of range of the American cannons, which returned no fire.
- 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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- 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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- After the war, the Treaty of Fort Jackson was signed in August, 1814.
- The Red Sticks' goal was to strike at the mixed-blood Creek who had taken refuge at the fort.
- The warriors attacked the fort, and killed a total of 400 to 500 people, including women, children, and numerous European-American settlers.
- 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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- 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.
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- 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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- Burgoyne's campaign began successfully with the capture of Fort Ticonderoga, but quickly slowed due to logistical problems and harassment by Patriot forces.
- As Burgoyne's troops attempted to march from Ticonderoga to Fort Edward, Patriot forces systematically felled trees, destroyed bridges, and dammed streams in Burgoyne's path.
- Leaving Oswego on July 25, they launched a siege on Fort Stanwix, located on the Mohawk River, on August 2.
- Leger that he was bringing a large army to defend Fort Stanwix, resulting in the withdrawal of St.
- Leger's remaining men eventually arrived at Fort Ticonderoga on September 27, but they arrived too late to effectively support Burgoyne.