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The Territory of Missouri was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from June 4, 1812, [1] until August 10, 1821. In 1819, the Territory of Arkansas was created from a portion of its southern area. In 1821, a southeastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Missouri, and the rest ...
Fort Osage (also known as Fort Clark or Fort Sibley) was an early 19th-century factory trading post run by the United States Government in western Missouri on the American frontier; it was located in present-day Sibley, Missouri. The Treaty of Fort Clark, signed with certain members of the Osage Nation in 1808, called for the United States to ...
Early explorations and indigenous peoples. In May 1673, Jesuit priest Jacques Marquette and French trader Louis Jolliet sailed down the Mississippi River in canoes along the area that would later become the state of Missouri. [1] The earliest recorded use of "Missouri" is found on a map drawn by Marquette after his 1673 journey, naming both a ...
Fort Bragg Garrison Commander Col. Scott Pence speaks at Fayetteville's Veterans Day ceremony at Segra Stadium on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021.
July 4, 1961 [3] Designated NHS. June 20, 1966. Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site is a partial reconstruction of the most important fur trading post on the upper Missouri River from 1829 to 1867. The fort site is about two miles from the confluence of the Missouri River and its tributary, the Yellowstone River, on the Dakota side ...
16th MP Brigade Fort Bragg; 92nd MP Battalion Fort Clayton 549th MP Company Fort Davis; 1138th MP Company, Det. 1, Missouri Army National Guard, Doniphan, Missouri; 1109th Signal Brigade 35th Signal Brigade (25th Signal Battalion/50th Signal Battalion/327th Signal Battalion/426th Signal Battalion) Fort Bragg North Carolina; 142nd Medical Battalion
Camp Bragg was established in 1918 as an artillery training ground. The Chief of Field Artillery, General William J. Snow, was seeking an area having suitable terrain, adequate water, rail facilities, and a climate suitable for year-round training, and he decided that the area now known as Fort Liberty met all of the desired criteria. [5]
Fort Belle Fontaine (formerly known as Cantonment Belle Fontaine) is a former U.S. military base located in St. Louis County, Missouri, across the Mississippi and Missouri rivers from Alton, Illinois. The fort was the first U.S. military installation west of the Mississippi, in the newly acquired Louisiana Territory, and served as a starting ...