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76 relations: American Civil War, American entry into World War I, Anti-aircraft warfare, Armistice of 11 November 1918, Army Air Defense Command (United States), Barbette, Beechhurst, Queens, Board of Fortifications, Boroughs of New York City, Castle Williams, Contiguous United States, Corps Castle, Cross Island Parkway, Davids' Island (New York), Dennis Hart Mahan, Disappearing gun, East River, Eastern Defense Command, Edwin D. Morgan, Fort Hamilton, Fort Point, San Francisco, Fort Schuyler, Fort Slocum, Fort Totten, Fort Totten Officers' Club, Fort Wadsworth, Fortification, Governors Island, Granite, Harbor Defenses of Long Island Sound, Harbor Defenses of New York, Hart Island (Bronx), Henry Larcom Abbot, Jethro Sumner, Joseph Gilbert Totten, Joseph Valachi, List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Queens, List of United States Army Corps of Engineers Chiefs of Engineers, Little Neck Bay, Long Island, Long Island Sound, National Register of Historic Places, New York (state), New York City, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, New York City Fire Department, New York City Police Department, New York Harbor, Project Nike, Queens, ..., Railway gun, Robert E. Lee, Rufus King Jr., Seacoast defense in the United States, Staten Island, Submarine mines in United States harbor defense, The Bronx, Thomas Edison, Throggs Neck, Torpedo, Totten, U.S. Army Engineer School, United States Army, United States Army Coast Artillery Corps, United States Army Corps of Engineers, United States Army Reserve, Vietnam War, Western Front (World War I), 10-inch gun M1895, 12-inch coast defense mortar, 12-inch gun M1895, 3-inch gun M1903, 3-inch Gun M1918, 5-inch gun M1897, 8-inch M1888, 90 mm Gun M1/M2/M3. Expand index (26 more) »
American Civil War
The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.
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American entry into World War I
The American entry into World War I came in April 1917, after more than two and a half years of efforts by President Woodrow Wilson to keep the United States out of the war.
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Anti-aircraft warfare
Anti-aircraft warfare or counter-air defence is defined by NATO as "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action."AAP-6 They include ground-and air-based weapon systems, associated sensor systems, command and control arrangements and passive measures (e.g. barrage balloons).
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Armistice of 11 November 1918
The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and their last opponent, Germany.
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Army Air Defense Command (United States)
Army Anti-Aircraft Command, previously Army Anti-Aircraft Command, was a major command of the United States Army, which existed from 1957 to 1974.
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Barbette
Barbettes are several types of gun emplacement in terrestrial fortifications or on naval ships.
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Beechhurst, Queens
Beechhurst is a neighborhood in the northeastern section of the New York City borough of Queens.
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Board of Fortifications
Several boards have been appointed by US presidents or Congress to evaluate the US defensive fortifications, primarily coastal defenses near strategically important harbors on the US shores, its territories, and its protectorates.
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Boroughs of New York City
New York City encompasses five county-level administrative divisions called boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island.
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Castle Williams
Castle Williams is a circular fortification of red sandstone on the northwest point of Governors Island, part of a system of forts designed and constructed in the early 19th century to protect New York City from naval attack.
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Contiguous United States
The contiguous United States or officially the conterminous United States consists of the 48 adjoining U.S. states plus Washington, D.C. on the continent of North America.
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Corps Castle
Corps Castle is the logo of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).
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Cross Island Parkway
Cross Island Parkway, also known as the 100th Infantry Division Parkway, is a parkway on Long Island, New York.
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Davids' Island (New York)
Davids' Island is a island off the coast of New Rochelle, New York, in Long Island Sound.
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Dennis Hart Mahan
Dennis Hart Mahan (April 2, 1802 – September 16, 1871) was a noted American military theorist, civil engineer and professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point from 1824-1871.
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Disappearing gun
A disappearing gun, a gun mounted on a disappearing carriage, is an obsolete type of artillery which enabled a gun to hide from direct fire and observation.
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East River
The East River is a salt water tidal estuary in New York City.
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Eastern Defense Command
The Eastern Defense Command was first established as the Northeast Defense Command on 17 March 1941 as one of four U.S. Army continental defense commands to plan and prepare for and, if need be, execute defense against enemy attack in the months before America's entry into World War II.
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Edwin D. Morgan
Edwin Denison Morgan (February 8, 1811February 14, 1883) was the 21st Governor of New York from 1859 to 1862 and served in the United States Senate from 1863 to 1869.
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Fort Hamilton
Historic Fort Hamilton is located in the southwestern corner of the New York City borough of Brooklyn surrounded by the communities of Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights, and is one of several posts that are part of the region which is headquartered by the Military District of Washington.
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Fort Point, San Francisco
Fort Point is a masonry seacoast fortification located at the southern side of the Golden Gate at the entrance to San Francisco Bay.
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Fort Schuyler
Fort Schuyler is a preserved 19th century fortification in the New York City borough of the Bronx.
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Fort Slocum
Fort Slocum, New York was a US military post which occupied Davids' Island in the western end of Long Island Sound in the city of New Rochelle, New York from 1867 to 1965.
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Fort Totten
Fort Totten may refer to.
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Fort Totten Officers' Club
Fort Totten Officers' Club, also known as the Castle, is a historic clubhouse located at Fort Totten in Bayside, Queens, New York.
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Fort Wadsworth
Fort Wadsworth is a former United States military installation on Staten Island in New York City, situated on The Narrows which divide New York Bay into Upper and Lower halves, a natural point for defense of the Upper Bay and Manhattan beyond.
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Fortification
A fortification is a military construction or building designed for the defense of territories in warfare; and is also used to solidify rule in a region during peacetime.
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Governors Island
Governors Island is a island in New York Harbor, approximately from the southern tip of Manhattan Island and separated from Brooklyn by Buttermilk Channel, approximately.
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Granite
Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture.
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Harbor Defenses of Long Island Sound
The Harbor Defenses of Long Island Sound was a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command.
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Harbor Defenses of New York
The Harbor Defenses of New York was a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command.
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Hart Island (Bronx)
Hart Island, sometimes referred to as Hart's Island, is an island in New York City at the western end of Long Island Sound.
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Henry Larcom Abbot
Henry Larcom Abbot (August 13, 1831 – October 1, 1927) was a military engineer and career officer in the United States Army.
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Jethro Sumner
Jethro Exum Sumner (1733 – March 18, 1785) was a North Carolina landowner and businessman, and an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
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Joseph Gilbert Totten
Joseph Gilbert Totten (August 23, 1788 – April 22, 1864) fought in the War of 1812, served as Chief of Engineers and was regent of the Smithsonian Institution and cofounder of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Joseph Valachi
Joseph Michael "Joe Cargo" Valachi (September 22, 1904 – April 3, 1971) was an American gangster, notable as the first member of the Italian-American Mafia to publicly acknowledge its existence, and credited with popularization of the term cosa nostra.
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List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Queens
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List of United States Army Corps of Engineers Chiefs of Engineers
The Chief of Engineers is a principal Army staff officer at The Pentagon.
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Little Neck Bay
Little Neck Bay is an embayment in western Long Island, New York, off Long Island Sound.
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Long Island
Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor just 0.35 miles (0.56 km) from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean.
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Long Island Sound
Long Island Sound is a tidal estuary of the Atlantic Ocean, lying between the eastern shores of Bronx County, New York City, southern Westchester County, and Connecticut to the north, and the North Shore of Long Island, to the south.
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National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.
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New York (state)
New York is a state in the northeastern United States.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, also called Parks Department and NYC Parks, is the department of the government of New York City responsible for maintaining the city's parks system, preserving and maintaining the ecological diversity of the city's natural areas, and furnishing recreational opportunities for city's residents and visitors.
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New York City Fire Department
The New York City Fire Department, officially the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY), is a department of the government of New York City that provides fire protection, technical rescue, primary response to biological, chemical, and radioactive hazards, and emergency medical services to the five boroughs of New York City.
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New York City Police Department
The City of New York Police Department, commonly known as the NYPD, is the primary law enforcement and investigation agency within the five boroughs of New York City.
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New York Harbor
New York Harbor, part of the Port of New York and New Jersey, is at the mouth of the Hudson River where it empties into New York Bay and into the Atlantic Ocean at the East Coast of the United States.
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Project Nike
Project Nike, (Greek: Νίκη, "Victory", pronounced), was a U.S. Army project, proposed in May 1945 by Bell Laboratories, to develop a line-of-sight anti-aircraft missile system.
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Queens
Queens is the easternmost and largest in area of the five boroughs of New York City.
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Railway gun
A railway gun, also called a railroad gun, is a large artillery piece, often surplus naval artillery, mounted on, transported by, and fired from a specially designed railway wagon.
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Robert E. Lee
Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was an American and Confederate soldier, best known as a commander of the Confederate States Army.
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Rufus King Jr.
Rufus King Jr. (March 21, 1838 – March 18, 1900) was an artillery officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and a Medal of Honor recipient.
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Seacoast defense in the United States
Seacoast defense was a major concern for the United States from its independence until World War II.
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Staten Island
Staten Island is the southernmost and westernmost of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. state of New York.
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Submarine mines in United States harbor defense
The modern era of defending American harbors with controlled mines or submarine mines (also called "naval mines" and originally referred to as "torpedoes") began in the post-Civil War period, and was a major part of US harbor defenses from circa 1900 to 1947.
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The Bronx
The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, in the U.S. state of New York.
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Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America's greatest inventor.
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Throggs Neck
Throggs Neck (also known as Throgs Neck) is a narrow spit of land in the southeastern portion of the borough of the Bronx in New York City.
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Torpedo
A modern torpedo is a self-propelled weapon with an explosive warhead, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater towards a target, and designed to detonate either on contact with its target or in proximity to it.
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Totten
Totten may refer to.
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U.S. Army Engineer School
The United States Army Engineer School (USAES) is located at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.
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United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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United States Army Coast Artillery Corps
The U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps (CAC) was an administrative corps responsible for coastal, harbor, and anti-aircraft defense of the United States between 1901 and 1950.
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United States Army Corps of Engineers
The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is a U.S. federal agency under the Department of Defense and a major Army command made up of some 37,000 civilian and military personnel, making it one of the world's largest public engineering, design, and construction management agencies.
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United States Army Reserve
The United States Army Reserve (USAR) is the federal reserve force of the United States Army.
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
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Western Front (World War I)
The Western Front was the main theatre of war during the First World War.
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10-inch gun M1895
The 10-inch Gun M1895 (254 mm) and its variants the M1888 and M1900 were large coastal artillery pieces installed to defend major American seaports between 1895 and 1945.
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12-inch coast defense mortar
The 12-inch coast defense mortar was a weapon of caliber emplaced during the 1890s and early 20th century to defend US harbors from seaborne attack.
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12-inch gun M1895
The 12-inch coastal defense gun M1895 (305 mm) and its variants the M1888 and M1900 were large coastal artillery pieces installed to defend major American seaports between 1895 and 1945.
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3-inch gun M1903
The 3-inch gun M1903 and its predecessors the M1898 and M1902 were rapid fire breech-loading artillery guns with a 360-degree traverse.
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3-inch Gun M1918
The 3-inch M1918 gun was a United States 3-inch anti-aircraft gun that entered service in 1918 and served until it was finally superseded by the 3" M3 gun in 1930.
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5-inch gun M1897
The 5-inch gun M1897 (127 mm) and its variant the M1900 were coastal artillery pieces installed to defend major American seaports between 1897 and 1920.
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8-inch M1888
The 8-inch Gun M1888 (203 mm) was a U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps gun, initially deployed 1898-1908 in about 75 fixed emplacements, usually on a disappearing carriage.
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90 mm Gun M1/M2/M3
The 90–mm Gun M1/M2/M3 is an American heavy anti-aircraft and anti-tank gun, playing a role similar to the German 8.8cm Flak 18.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Totten_(Queens)
