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Federal Hill, Baltimore, Maryland, a neighborhood and a park (earlier site of celebration by Baltimore Town citizens over ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1788, observation post and tower for arriving ships and later of a former Union Army fort overlooking downtown Baltimore and its harbor basin - Inner Harbor during the Civil War)
Federal Hill is a neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland, that lies just to the south of the city's central business district. Many of the structures are included in the Federal Hill Historic District , listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
Federal Hill is a neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island. It lies immediately west of the city's Downtown , across Interstate 95 . Since the late 19th century, Federal Hill has been an enclave of Providence's Italian American community; today the neighborhood is noted for its abundance of Italian restaurants, markets, and cultural establishments.
Con Thien is located at MGRS 48QYD113703) and was originally established as a Special Forces/CIDG camp on 20 February 1967 at Hill 158 by Special forces A-110. [2] The camp was built by a detachment from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4.
With further North Vietnamese offensives in the offing, the American government found itself presented with a double-edged dilemma. L'Armee Clandestine was the only Lao military force still ready to fight in northern Laos—but barely ready. Continued defense of Long Tieng could lead to their defeat and loss of the war.
The Battle of Hill 488 was a military engagement of the Vietnam War that took place on the night of 15–16 June 1966. A small United States Marine Corps (USMC) reconnaissance platoon inflicted large casualties on regular People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and Viet Cong (VC) fighters before withdrawing with only a few dead.
Vietnam, [e] [f] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, [g] [h] is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
Campaign 74B (2 February–30 April 1971) was a major combined arms offensive by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) during the Laotian Civil War.The Communist offensive, if successful, would knock the last remaining fighting troops of the Kingdom of Laos out of the war, ensuring the Vietnamese conquest of Laos.