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Fort Necessity

(Encyclopedia) Fort Necessity, entrenched camp built in July, 1754, by George Washington and his Virginia militia at Great Meadows (near the present Uniontown, Pa.). He retired there when he learned…

Beauséjour, Fort

(Encyclopedia) Beauséjour, Fort: see Fort Beauséjour, N.B., Canada.

Fort-Royal

(Encyclopedia) Fort-Royal, Martinique: see Fort-de-France.

Bridger, Fort

(Encyclopedia) Bridger, Fort: see Fort Bridger State Park.

Fort Hall

(Encyclopedia) Fort Hall, trading post on the Snake River, near Pocatello, SE Idaho; est. 1834 by U.S. trader Nathaniel Wyeth. It was sold in 1836 to the Hudson's Bay Company, which occupied the post…

Henry Cullen ADAMS, Congress, WI (1850-1906)

ADAMS Henry Cullen , a Representative from Wisconsin; born in Verona, Oneida County, N.Y., November 28, 1850; moved to Wisconsin in 1851 with his parents, who settled in Fort Atkinson, Jefferson…

Fort George

(Encyclopedia) Fort George, river, c.480 mi (770 km) long, rising in Lake Nichicun, E Que., Canada. It flows W into James Bay at Fort George, a Hudson's Bay Company trading post.

Moore, Stanford

(Encyclopedia) Moore, Stanford, 1913–82, American biochemist, b. Chicago, Ph.D. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, 1938. Moore joined the faculty at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now…