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55 relations: American entry into World War I, American Revolution, Anti-aircraft warfare, Barbette, Bastille Day, Benjamin Church (ranger), Board of Fortifications, Boston Harbor, Cannon, Capture of USS Chesapeake, Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing, Coastal defence and fortification, Department of Conservation and Recreation, Disappearing gun, Eleazer Wheelock Ripley, Fort Duvall, Fort Independence (Massachusetts), Fort Revere Park, Glacis, Harbor Defense Command, Harbor Defenses of Boston, Hull, Massachusetts, James Cook, John Winthrop, King William's War, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Louis Lebègue Duportail, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston, Motor Torpedo Boat, Patriot (American Revolution), Paul Revere, Project Nike, Queen Anne's War, Seacoast defense in the United States, Semaphore line, Spinnaker Island (Massachusetts), Telegraph Hill (Hull, Massachusetts), Troupes de marine, United States Army, United States Army Coast Artillery Corps, United States Bicentennial, United States Department of War, War of 1812, Western Front (World War I), William P. Sanders, World War I, World War II, 12-inch gun M1895, 16"/50 caliber M1919 gun, 241st Coast Artillery (United States), ..., 3-inch Gun M1918, 5-inch gun M1897, 6-inch gun M1897, 90 mm Gun M1/M2/M3, 9th Coast Artillery (United States). Expand index (5 more) »
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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American Revolution
The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783.
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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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Barbette
Barbettes are several types of gun emplacement in terrestrial fortifications or on naval ships.
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Bastille Day
Bastille Day is the common name given in English-speaking countries/lands to the French National Day, which is celebrated on the 14th of July each year.
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Benjamin Church (ranger)
Benjamin Church (c. 1639 – January 17, 1718) was an English colonist in North America.
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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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Boston Harbor
Boston Harbor is a natural harbor and estuary of Massachusetts Bay, and is located adjacent to the city of Boston, Massachusetts.
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Cannon
A cannon (plural: cannon or cannons) is a type of gun classified as artillery that launches a projectile using propellant.
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Capture of USS Chesapeake
The Capture of USS Chesapeake, or the Battle of Boston Harbor, was fought on 1 June 1813, between the Royal Navy's frigate and American frigate, as part of the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain.
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Charles Henri Hector d'Estaing
Jean Baptiste Charles Henri Hector, comte d'Estaing (24 November 1729 – 28 April 1794) was a French general and admiral.
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Coastal defence and fortification
Castillo San Felipe de Barajas in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, an example of an Early Modern coastal defense Coastal defence (or defense) and coastal fortification are measures taken to provide protection against military attack at or near a coastline (or other shoreline), for example, fortification and coastal artillery.
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Department of Conservation and Recreation
The Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) is a state agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, situated in the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.
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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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Eleazer Wheelock Ripley
Eleazer Wheelock Ripley (April 15, 1782 – March 2, 1839) was an American soldier and politician.
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Fort Duvall
Fort Duvall was a Coast Artillery fort, part of the Harbor Defenses of Boston, in Massachusetts.
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Fort Independence (Massachusetts)
Fort Independence is a granite bastion fort that provided harbor defenses for Boston, Massachusetts.
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Fort Revere Park
Fort Revere Park is a state-owned historic site and public recreation area situated on a small peninsula in the town of Hull, Massachusetts.
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Glacis
A glacis in military engineering is an artificial slope as part of a medieval castle or in early modern fortresses.
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Harbor Defense Command
A Harbor Defense Command was a military organization of the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps designated in 1925 from predecessor organizations dating from circa 1895.
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Harbor Defenses of Boston
The Harbor Defenses of Boston was a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command.
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Hull, Massachusetts
Hull is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States, located on a peninsula at the southern edge of Boston Harbor.
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James Cook
Captain James Cook (7 November 1728Old style date: 27 October14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.
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John Winthrop
John Winthrop (12 January 1587/88 – 26 March 1649) was an English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the second major settlement in New England, following Plymouth Colony.
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King William's War
King William's War (1688–97, also known as the Second Indian War, Father Baudoin's War,Alan F. Williams, Father Baudoin's War: D'Iberville's Campaigns in Acadia and Newfoundland 1696, 1697, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1987. Castin's War,Herbert Milton Sylvester. Indian Wars of New England: The land of the Abenake. The French occupation. King Philip's war. St. Castin's war. 1910. or the First Intercolonial War in French) was the North American theater of the Nine Years' War (1688–97, also known as the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg).
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Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville (12 November 1729 – 31 August 1811) was a French admiral and explorer.
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Louis Lebègue Duportail
Louis Lebègue de Presle Duportail (14 May 1743 – 12 August 1802) was a French military leader who served as a volunteer and the chief engineer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
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Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston
The Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston is a system of reservations, parks, parkways and roads under the control of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) in and around Boston that has been in existence for over a century.
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Motor Torpedo Boat
Motor Torpedo Boat (MTB) was the name given to fast torpedo boats by the Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy.
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Patriot (American Revolution)
Patriots (also known as Revolutionaries, Continentals, Rebels, or American Whigs) were those colonists of the Thirteen Colonies who rejected British rule during the American Revolution and declared the United States of America as an independent nation in July 1776.
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Paul Revere
Paul Revere (December 21, 1734 O.S.May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and Patriot in the American Revolution.
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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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Queen Anne's War
Queen Anne's War (1702–1713) was the North American theater of the War of the Spanish Succession, as known in the British colonies, and the second in a series of French and Indian Wars fought between France and England in North America for control of the continent.
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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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Semaphore line
A semaphore telegraph is a system of conveying information by means of visual signals, using towers with pivoting shutters, also known as blades or paddles.
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Spinnaker Island (Massachusetts)
Spinnaker Island (formerly known as Park Island, Hog Island, and Little Hog Island) is an island in the Hingham Bay area of Boston Harbor in Massachusetts, USA.
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Telegraph Hill (Hull, Massachusetts)
Telegraph Hill is a historic site in Hull, Massachusetts.
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Troupes de marine
The Troupe de marine (TDM) are a corps of the French Army which regroups several specialties: infantry, artillery, armoured and airborne.
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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 Bicentennial
The United States Bicentennial was a series of celebrations and observances during the mid-1970s that paid tribute to historical events leading up to the creation of the United States of America as an independent republic.
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United States Department of War
The United States Department of War, also called the War Department (and occasionally War Office in the early years), was the United States Cabinet department originally responsible for the operation and maintenance of the United States Army, also bearing responsibility for naval affairs until the establishment of the Navy Department in 1798, and for most land-based air forces until the creation of the Department of the Air Force on September 18, 1947.
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War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom, and their respective allies from June 1812 to February 1815.
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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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William P. Sanders
William Price Sanders (August 12, 1833 – November 19, 1863) was an officer in the Union Army in the American Civil War, who died at the Siege of Knoxville.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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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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16"/50 caliber M1919 gun
The 16 inch Gun M1919 (406 mm) was a large coastal artillery piece installed to defend the United States' major seaports between 1920 and 1946.
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241st Coast Artillery (United States)
The 241st Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery Corps regiment in the Massachusetts National Guard.
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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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6-inch gun M1897
The 6-inch gun M1897 (152 mm) and its variants the M1900, M1903, M1905, M1908, and M1 (a.k.a. T2) were coastal artillery pieces installed to defend major American seaports between 1897 and 1945.
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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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9th Coast Artillery (United States)
The 9th Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery regiment in the United States Army.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Revere
