Subsequently, 14 forts or fortified homes were located between Belvidere and Gardnerville, N.Y., a distance of 62 miles. On March 16, 1756, an act was adopted for raising 250 able bodied free men ...

I often say that “Texas defends America.” That’s a shorthand reference to our state’s proud, ongoing contributions to the U.S. military and our national defense. But in the years after ...

From December 1755 to January 1756, frontier forts were built in and around present-day Stroudsburg and Shawnee-on-Delaware, but there was a necessity to protect the settlers who lived in the ...

FORT McKAVETT, TEXAS — Here, the wind whispers stories. In lonely places such as the frontier forts in West Texas, old stories swirl through the dry breeze, slipping around the stone, wood and ...

Augusta County was once the wild, wild west. That’s right, when our area was first settled in the 1720s or so, we were the western frontier. But unlike other parts of the American frontier – western ...

Volunteers gathered at the fort to train for war and eventually became part of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders. Whipple's days as a military post were numbered, and it later became a military hospital.

Editor's note: This is the second in a four-part series highlighting the history of the four frontier forts that were built from 1755 to 1756 at the command of Benjamin Franklin.

Frontier fort from Revolutionary War found in Georgia. By Russ Bynum. ... The battles were a blow to British plans to make gains in Georgia, the last of the original 13 Colonies, ...

Less than two months after British forces captured Savannah in December 1778, patriot militiamen scored a rare Revolutionary War victory in Georgia after a short but violent gunbattle forced ...

These forts are called "frontier forts" on the historical markers. ... Baker's and Mills forts all were early forts built "on or near the North Mountain," according a report by Preservation Maryland.

But in the years after Texas joined the Union in 1845, the equation was usually reversed. Mexico and three major Indian tribes were considered threats, so the federal government sent cavalry ...