PITTSBURGH — Bouquet’s Blockhouse, a shelter for 18th-century soldiers being sniped at or overrun by warring tribes, survived Pontiac’s War and two revolutions -- the American and Industrial. It ...
The sleepy Free State town of Springfontein once bustled madly during the South African War. Railway lines from Cape Town, Gqeberha (then Port Elizabeth) and East London all met here on their way to ...
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WINSLOW — The country’s oldest blockhouse is getting a needed update. Construction began Thursday on a new roof for Fort Halifax, a town treasure and National Historic Landmark. The project is ...
Throughout history, New York City has played an important strategic role in many historic wars. The remnants of those conflicts can be found all over the five boroughs in the form of forts, cannons, ...
WEST LAFAYETTE — The blockhouse at the Fort Ouiatenon Park turns 90 years old this year — 16 years longer than the real Fort Ouiatenon existed. The French frontier trading post and military outpost ...
MUSKEGON, Mich. (WZZM) -- Spray paint and flames from an arsonist -- those are the two biggest problems at a historic site in Muskegon County. It sits on the county's highest elevation, just around a ...
United States Marines (foreground) blow up a cave connected to a Japanese blockhouse on Iwo Jima, 1945. United States Marines (foreground) blow up a cave connected to a Japanese blockhouse on Iwo Jima ...