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Necessity, Fort

(Encyclopedia)Necessity, Fort: see Fort Necessity. ...

Washington, Fort

(Encyclopedia)Washington, Fort, N.Y.: see Fort Washington. ...

Bent's Fort

(Encyclopedia)Bent's Fort, trading post of the American West, on the Arkansas River in present-day SE Colorado, E of Rocky Ford and La Junta and several miles above the mouth of the Purgatoire. The trading company ...

Caroline, Fort

(Encyclopedia)Caroline, Fort: see Fort Caroline. ...

Stanwix, Fort

(Encyclopedia)Stanwix, Fort: see Fort Stanwix. ...

Beauséjour, Fort

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

Bridger, Fort

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

Black, Jeremiah Sullivan

(Encyclopedia)Black, Jeremiah Sullivan, 1810–83, American cabinet officer, b. Somerset co., Pa. Admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1830, Black became a successful lawyer. As U.S. Attorney General (1857–60) und...

Buchanan, James

(Encyclopedia)Buchanan, James, 1791–1868, 15th President of the United States (1857–61), b. near Mercersburg, Pa., grad. Dickinson College, 1809. Buchanan was nominated as a Democratic candidate for the pres...

Ruffin, Edmund

(Encyclopedia)Ruffin, Edmund rŭfˈĭn [key], 1794–1865, American agriculturist, one of the Southern fire-eaters, b. Prince George co., Va. His interest in improving impoverished land led him to become a pioneer ...