the beginning of time humans have built forts for various reasons. Forts come in all shapes and sizes and can be in some of the craziest places for the most craziest purposes. In the 1st century BCE 960 jewish people built a fort on top of a huge plateau near Mesa looking down on the Red Sea called Masada‚ according to historians the reason for this huge fort was to keep the romans away from them‚ at this time the romans were persecuting the jews and this fort for the jewish people in Mesa was the
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deposition of sediments‚ sunk during the 1692 earthquake was because the earthquake followed an existing fault line. Fortification of Port Royal Two years after the arrival of the English they built a small fort‚ Fort Cromwell‚ which constituted of 32 guns. The Fort had the plan “a
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D) the Continental Divide 5.Pontiac was certain that if he could lay siege to a major British outpost and keep the troops pinned down inside the fort‚ that the French would come to his aid and drive the British back out of the Great Lakes Region. What British fort did Pontiac put under siege? A) Fort Michilimackinac B) Fort Detroit C) Fort Sandusky D) Fort St. Joseph 6.In 1766‚ British Major
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who further fortified Purandar in 1350. During the early rule of the Bijapur and Ahmednagarkings‚ Purandar was among the forts directly under Government‚ and never entrusted to jagirdars(estate-holders).[2] Sometime under the Bedar kings (1347-1490) the fort was besieged several times. To prevent Purandar fort from falling‚ a man and a woman were buried alive under one of the fort bastions to appease its patron deity.[3] The king of Berar then ordered his minister a Esaji Naik Chive to bury a first
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village chieftain in the Lingkabo district and Sungei Sugut. Mat Salleh administrative expenses were from the taxes imposed on the traders who used the Sungai Sungut in 1894. The British attacked Mat Salleh at Jambongan and destroyed Fort Mat Salleh at Sungai Sugut between 1896 and 1897. However‚ Datu Mat Salleh managed to escape during these attacks. In retaliation‚ Mat Salleh started attacking the British East India Company from July 1897. Mat Salleh and his followers attacked and
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capture a part of‚ the then‚ dominant Mughal empire. Read this biography to get more information on the warrior and his life history: Early Life Shivaji was born on 19th February 1630‚ to Sahaji and his wife‚ Jijabai‚ in the Shivneri Fort‚ situated almost 60 km to the north of Pune. He was named as Shiva‚ after the local Goddess Shivai‚ to whom his mother Jijabai had prayed for a son. After being defeated by the combined forces of the Mughals and Adil Shah‚ Sahaji was offered a jagir
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the war. He was a colonel. Made a name for him and the experience of this war helped in the American Revolution. Both civil and military because he led a group of Militia. * General Edward Braddock – He led a group of two thousand men to capture Fort Duquesne. His group was ambushed and he died in the battle. * Earl of Loundoun – He was appointed commander and chief in 1756 of the British forces and caused failures for the British. * William Pitt – He took leadership of the British ministry
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FORT ZEELANDIA & THE COURT OF POLICY Approximately 16 km from the mouth of the mighty Essequibo River is Fort Island. On this island are two structures: Fort Zeelandia and the Court of Policy or Dutch Church. During the period of Dutch occupation the Fort and the Court of Policy were part of a large urban settlement that extended along the northeastern section of the island. This was the seat of the Dutch administration in the colony of Essequibo. Fort Zeelandia
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Fort Delaware became a State Park in 1951. Dating back to 1859‚ the Fort was originally used to protect the ports of Wilmington and Philadelphia‚ and served as a Union fortress and a Confederate prison. Many of Fort Delaware’s first Confederate prisoners were brought from the Battle of Kernstown in 1862 and the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. A total of thirty-two thousand prisoners were kept at Fort Delaware. The state of Delaware obtained the Fort from the United States Federal government in 1947
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knew him as a chief. He forbade the whites to build a road on the Bozeman trail. Although they did it anyways he launched many attacks on their forts. He continued to attack the forts along the trail. He couldn’t stand seeing his land being pushed away. This was the most successful offense ever carried out by a Indian Nation.
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