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MILITARY


Military Resources War in Pennsylvania

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FORTS

  • Governor of Pennsylvania, is located on the grounds. The Fort Indiantown Gap Military Reservation is protected by a full-time police force.
  • This is a list of military installations owned or used by the United States Armed Forces both in the United States and around the world. 
  • Fort Mifflin Philadelphia in autumn 1777. In 1795, the fort was renamed for Thomas Mifflin, a Continental Army officer and the first post-independence Pennsylvania governor.
  • formed in western Pennsylvania (modern day Pittsburgh). It was near (but not directly on) the site of Fort Duquesne, a French colonial fort built in 1754
  • for protection. In response, the Province of Pennsylvania spent eighty-five thousand pounds to erect a chain of blockhouses and forts along the Kittannin

Soldiers of the Great War Vol 3- Pennsylvania, 69 pages Allegheny County, PA, in the war for the suppression of the rebellion, 1861-1865 
622 pages

Roll of honor, defenders of the flag, attack on Fort Sumter, S.C., April 12, 1861, surrender at Appomattox, Va., April 9, 1865 (1924) Author: Evans, Samuel Minis, 1843- Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. : [s.n.] Possible copyright status: [Not in Copyright] Military Biographies Soldiers And Patriots Biographical Album Containing Biographies and Portraits of Soldiers and Loyal Citizens In the American Conflict, Together with the Great Commanders of the Union Army