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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMERF_dwight-david-eisenhower_West-Point-NY.html
Supreme CommanderAllied Expeditionary Force1944 - 1945
Presidential SealPresidentof theUnited States1953 - 1961
Soldiers, sailors and airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force: You are about to embark upon the great crusade toward which we ha…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMER9_margaret-corbin_West-Point-NY.html
100 feet ahead on rightmonument and grave ofMargaret CorbinRevolutionary Heroine
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMER7_old-west-point-gates_West-Point-NY.html
This gate, and the cemetery gate further along Washington Road, were the main gates to West Point during the last half of the nineteenth century. These intricately detailed cast iron gates and posts are rare survivors of early exterior decorative …
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This Armstrong gun was one of two presented to the Confederate government by English admirers in 1864. Made by the firm of Sir W.C. Armstrong & Company, New Castle-Upon-Tyne, the two guns were placed at Forts Fisher and Caswell, North Carolina, to…
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Rifled muzzleloading gun made in 1864 by Sir W.G. Armstrong & Company, England, said to have been a gift from private donors in England to the Confederacy. A major weapon in the armament of Fort Fisher, Wilmington, North Carolina, it was captured …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEQL_fort-clinton_West-Point-NY.html
Fort Clinton was built in 1778 by troops of the Continental Army. It was originally named Fort Arnold after Benedict Arnold, the hero of early Revolutionary War campaigns. The fort retained its original name until Colonel Arnold deserted to the Br…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEQA_wars-that-shaped-the-nation_West-Point-NY.html
On 25 April 1898, Congress declared war against Spain after the USS Maine blew up under mysterious circumstances in the port of Havana, Cuba. The U.S. raised an expeditionary army to liberate Cuba and the Philippines from Spanish rule. After a sha…
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The Mexican War increased the nation's size by over 20 percent and continued the rapid territorial expansion of the United States. In 1846, after a number of incidents along the border between Texas and Mexico, the United States declared war again…
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The United States declared war on Great Britain in June 1812 after several years of tension stemming primarily from disputes over the British blockade of France during its wars with Napoleon. At first, attention focused on American efforts to inva…
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In 1775, American minutemen at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, fired the "shots heard around the world." The colonists fought the British to establish their independence from New York to Georgia and from Massachusetts Bay to the Indian terri…