The Fortress of Louisbourg (French: Forteresse de Louisbourg) is a National Historic Site and the location of a one-quarter partial reconstruction of an 18th-century French fortress at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.Its two sieges, especially that of 1758, were turning points in the Anglo-French struggle for what today is Canada.. The original settlement was made in …

During the American Civil War, Arkansas was a Confederate state, though it had initially voted to remain in the Union.Following the capture of Fort Sumter in April 1861, Abraham Lincoln called for troops from every Union state to put down the rebellion, and Arkansas and several other states seceded. For the rest of the civil war, Arkansas played a major role in controlling the …

CSS Curlew was an iron-hull North Carolina Sounds paddlewheel steamboat that was taken into the Confederate Navy in 1861. It was run aground at Fort Forrest Coordinates) and burned in the battle for Roanoke Island on February Its wreck was discovered in 1988 and archaeologically investigated in 1994.

Malgré des pertes importantes, les troupes venues de France sont victorieuses, si bien que les officiers de Toussaint, à l’exemple de Maurepas ou Henri Christophe, font tour à tour défection. Le 6 mai 1802 , Toussaint Louverture est contraint de capituler, puis est assigné à résidence dans sa propriété dans l’île.

USS Galena was a wooden-hulled broadside ironclad built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War.The ship was initially assigned to the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron and supported Union forces during the Peninsula Campaign in 1862. She was damaged during the Battle of Drewry's Bluff because her armor was too thin to prevent Confederate shots from …

Fort Finney renamed Fort Steuben; Fort Harrison; Fort Clark, a stockade built around Clarksville in 1783; Fort Ouiatenon (not a U.S. military fort) Fort Vincennes (including Fort Knox I and II, Fort Sackville and Fort Patrick Henry) Fort Wayne / Fort Miami; Iowa. Fort Atkinson (1840–1849) Fort Des Moines I, II, and III (1834–present) Fort ...

There are also many towns named after a Fort, the largest being Fort Worth, Texas, United States Antigua and Barbuda. Fort James, Antigua; Australia Sydney Harbour fortifications. Beehive Casemate ... Fort Maurepas; Fort Paskoya; Lower Fort Garry; York Factory; Northwest Territories. Fort Collinson; Old Fort Providence; Nunavut. Fort Ross; Ontario.

The Republic of West Florida (Spanish: República de Florida Occidental, French: République de Floride occidentale), officially the State of Florida, was a short-lived republic in the western region of Spanish West Florida for just over two-and-a-half months during 1810. It was annexed and occupied by the United States later in 1810, and subsequently became part of eastern Louisiana

Jean-Jacques Dessalines, également connu sous le nom de Jacques I er, né le 20 septembre 1758, sur l'habitation Vye Kay (à Grande-Rivière-du-Nord) et mort assassiné le 17 octobre 1806 à Pont-Rouge, est un militaire et chef d'État haïtien.. Sous la Révolution française, il est officier de l'armée française et participe aux affrontements contre les Espagnols et les Britanniques.

USS United States was a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy and the first of the six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794.The name "United States" was among ten names submitted to President George Washington by Secretary of War Timothy Pickering in March of 1795 for the frigates that were to be constructed.