Word: fortresses
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Lieutenant Wirt Robinson, 4th Artillery, received orders yesterday to report with his battery at Fortress Monroe. He will leave for New York early this morning. There will be no lecture today in Military Science II, but Mr. W. S. Burke, instructor in the Scientific School, who was Junior Lieutenant of Naval Engineers, will take charge of the course after next Thursday's lecture which will be given by Professor Hollis. Mr. Burke will also take charge of the drill squads...
...Island No. 10 in the Mississippi, and effectually blocked further Union advance by the river. The approaches were well protected by the river and a great marsh on the east. On the southeast of the river was the only passable road. Gen. John Pope moved upon this almost impregnable fortress and, aided by gun-boats, captured it in brilliant style. He first moved to a point on the west bank below the defences and captured New Madrid, the only considerable town. To pass the river and overpower the batteries which defended the one road to the island, he needed...
Preston Brown of Baltimore, Md., who graduates with the class of 1892 at Yale, has been appointed a second lieutenant in the the United States army and assigned to a battery of artillery now stationed at Fortress Monroe...
...gilt cross over the entrance to the College Library, said to be a trophy from the siege of Strasburg, was really taken by Amherst of the English Colonial army from the fortress of Louisburg, Cape Breton Island, in 1758, during the French and Indian...
...Yale Glee club are anticipating even a pleasanter time on their Easter trip than at Christmas, inasmuch as they will spend most of their time at Old Point Comfort. The club will leave New Haven on the afternoon of April 3, by the Old Dominion line for Fortress Monroe and Old Point Comfort, where they will arrive Thursday afternoon. Monday, April 7, they leave for Washington where a concert will be given in the evening. Tuesday they sing in Baltimore, and Wednesday evening in Philadelphia, returning to New Haven Thursday, April...