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| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | A rare photograph of U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Howard rowing a boat on the Fox River. Fort Howard, built in 1816, was the first in the chain of ... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Battery C, 1st Regiment, Wisconsin Heavy Artillery at Fort Sherman, shown here after the battles of Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain.... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Nine men arrive at Fort William by canoe. Fort William, also called Kaministiguia, was the Hudson's Bay fur trading post. Men are standing along the opposi... |
| Date: | 1834 |
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| Description: | Reproduction of an oil painting of Fort Winnebago, which was built in 1827 by Major William Whistler and a detachment of the First Infantry. Caption reads:... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting construction of the first Fort Crawford at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1816. In the painting, several o... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting the surrender of Black Hawk at Fort Crawford in 1832. |
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| Description: | Diorama in the Milwaukee Public Museum depicting Black Hawk's surrender on August 27, 1832 at Fort Crawford in Prairie du Chien. |
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| Description: | A French trench. Captioned: "Notice the workmanship on this French trench - and imagine the water in the springtime." |
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| Description: | Dirt stairs through the trench wall. Captioned: "Passages up which troops rush for an attack." |
| Date: | 06 19 1912 |
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| Description: | A group of people posing in front of the Camp Randall Memorial Arch during its dedication. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | View of five soldiers rowing in a boat, beside a dock, with another soldier standing on the dock. The fort is in the background, complete with the fortifie... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Fort Howard Hospital Marker. "Hospital of old Fort Howard - 1816. This building formerly stood with the surgeons quarters and the powder magazine on the ri... |
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| Description: | Old Barracks at Fort Howard, exterior building. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View of the front of the annex, prior to restoration. |
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| Description: | Replica of Fort Michilimackinac, also called Mackinac. |
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| Description: | Sketch of the Fort at Michilimackinac (also called Mackinac) as it was under French rule. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | View of a stockade and blockhouse replica built on the site of the original stockade erected in 1862 during a small Sioux Indian uprising in nearby Minneso... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Civil War fortification Fort Harrison showing embrasures and parapets of casemates. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Fort Crawford was decommissioned in 1856, having outlived its usefulness as a frontier post. During the Civil War, however, it functioned as a military ho... |
| Date: | 1814 |
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| Description: | Fort Shelby built in 1814 and named for the Governor of Kentucky, was surrendered to British forces later in 1814 and renamed Fort McKay. Pictured here is ... |
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