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Title
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Fort Leavenworth
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Description
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History of Fort Leavenworth, also known as Cantonment Leavenworth, established in 1828 near the site of present Leavenworth, Kansas, and "one of the nation's oldest active Army posts west of the Mississippi River," although "never attacked" and becoming a military training camp starting in World War I.
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Date
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1987
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Camp Croghan
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Description
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Description of Camp Croghan, the "first military post in Kansas," also called Cantonment Martin, "established in 1818 when Kansas was an unknown portion of the Louisiana Territory" and "winter quarters for Major Stephen H. Long's historic scientific expedition on 1819-20 into the Rocky Mountains" "located on Cow Island (known to the French as Isle de Vache) in the Missouri River within the confines of present Atchison County, about 10 miles north of where Fort Leavenworth would later be established."
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Date
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1987
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Object Type
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Book Section
