Fort San Carlos De Barrancas is a National Historic Landmark. This fort sits on a bluff overlooking the entrance to Pensacola Bay. The entrance is on Taylor Road half a mile east of the Museum of Naval Aviation. The advantages of the forts location have caused engineers of three nations to build forts. The position of Fort Barrancas was susceptible to land attack. To counter this deficiency, a second brick fortification called The Advanced Redoubt was built a few hundred yards in land to help in the fort's defense. By the eve of the Civil War, the small force of United States troops assigned to Pensacola Bay were quartered at Barrancas Post. Fort Pickens and McRee were occupied by caretakers. Barrancas worked well do to the massive walls of
Edie’s father, Sergeant Eduardo Salazar was a member from the Sacramento Police Department. He was on neighborhood watch that early afternoon in an unmarked vehicle, when a bank robbery was broadcasted over the police radio. Sgt. Salazar responded to the call and proceeds to the location nearby as quickly as possible.
My mission is named in honor of Saint Francis Solano, he was a Spanish Franciscan Missionary in Peru and Paraguay. It is the twenty-first and last of the California missions. It was founded by Fray Jose Altimira on July 4, 1823. Mission Sonoma, it’s shaped like a square of long buildings, forming a quadrangle, made of adobe bricks and wood. In one corner was the church, adjacent was living quarters and parallel were the workshops, kitchen, and storage. In addition, there were orchards, gardens, vineyards, fields of grain, a grist mill, houses for the soldiers and Indian families, a jail, a cemetery, and an infirmary.
This article begins by giving an account of how the initial cannon was hauled and placed by the Spanish soldiers in 1698 overlooking Pensacola’s waters. Furthermore, it discusses not only the ultimate acquisition of Spanish Florida by the United States during the battle of Pensacola, but provides the history of the various country’s that would not only oversee the cannon, but Pensacola, Florida itself, until its final surrender to the United States by Spain. The article was written by Trevor Jay Hunsaker, an editor for the Loyalist Gazette, which is a Military Journal Magazine that is published twice a year by the United Empire Loyalists’ Association of Canada. The author clearly articulates the many transgressions that transpired in Pensacola,
2. Vina San Pedro is part of the 3 largest wineries of Chile. In 1994 Compana Cervecerias Unidas purchased 48.4 % of VPS shares, gaining partial ownership.
The Battle of San Juan Hill (also know as the Battle of San Juan Heights) commenced on 01 July 1898. It was a significant and definitive battle of the Spanish-American War as well as the bloodiest. The names of the two hills at San Juan Heights were given by the Americans, San Juan Hill and Kettle Hill. The American press deemed this victory as the greatest victory for Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders of the 1st Volunteer Cavalry even though the Buffalo Soldiers of the 10th Cavalry and 24th Infantry Regiment had done the bulk of the fighting.
Soon, so many Blacks were in Saint Augustine that the Spanish built a town for the blacks called Fort Mose. Today in Augustine, nothing remains of it; it has sunk into the coast. It was the first all black settlement in “our” new world or “Promise Land”. So many slaves tried to escape there that the British would bur them in public as an act of embarrassment and obedience, it slowed down the flow. In 1739, 20 Kango warriors got fed up, and caused one of the biggest slaves revolts in the history of the British colonies; this happened 300 miles north of Fort Mose in the Sturno River. It started off at dawn on September 9th ,1739; at a white owned store called “Hudsons” was burned to the ground. After being looted, with guns, and ammunition
Initially named San Antonio de Valero Mission, the Alamo is the pride and joy to many American’s and most Texans. While the battle at the Alamo is the most renowned event that took place during the Texas revolution, seldom people know that there were a plethora of events that took place leading up to the showdown at the Alamo. The Mexican government began to shift away from a federalist model under the presidency of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. The enhanced dictatorial laws, including the revocation of the Constitution of 1824 in 1835 caused many federalists to revolt. Many immigrants that inhabited the Mexican border region of Texas were accustomed to a federalist government and they were quite vocal in their displeasure at Mexico’s shift to centralism. Mexican authorities blamed Texian stress on American immigrants; most of whom they believed had made little effort to adapt to the Mexican culture. In order to put an end to the revolt Santa Anna began assembling a large army, the Army of operations in Texas, to retain order. Most of the men in his army were generally raw recruits and possessed no prior knowledge of synchronized combat.
On August 2015, the U.S. Army South Chaplain team conducted an initial staff assistance visit to Soto Cano Air Base, Honduras. The purpose was to establish a direct relationship for teaching, coaching and mentoring while providing leadership development for the 1-228 AVN REG Unit Ministry Team (UMT). Met with the 1-228 AVN REG and JTF-B UMTs and had the opportunity to meet and welcome the incoming 1-228 AVN REG Chaplain and farewell the outgoing Chaplain. CH Melvin provided leadership by coaching, mentoring each chaplain individually, and SGM Montealegre met with each chaplain assistant to offer mentorship and guidance. As part of the trip, we visited a local boys orphanage that is part of a continual effort to work with the community to
Many may look at war as a negative especially Americans looking at the civil war being the war where the most soldiers were lost from a war in all of America’s history, one city named Fort Myers was saved from being lost in history forever. After the Third Seminole War, Fort Myers was abandoned in 1858. The recommissioning of Fort Myers resulted in the largest military action of the Civil War in southwest
In 1997 I was a Marine Aircraft Firefighter stationed at the Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina. One of the tasks we performed was performing static displays for groups touring the base. Two places every tour group would visit was the military police and the fire station; we were the fire station. Staff Sergeant Draughn and I (we were both supervisors) stood in front of these children while our Marines performed a drill where an alarm would sound; they would come down the slide from upstairs, get dressed roll about 30 yards, pull out the hoses and put out either the simulated fire or a small controlled fire. On this particular occasion it was a group elementary school kids from the local school district. Draughn looked at me and said. “Look at these kids, just think, as innocent as they look now, in about 10 to 15 years some will be murders, and criminals.” I laughed and agreed; realizing that criminals come from everyday walks of life; as I reflect that was the first time I can truly pinpoint the first time I had a biased perspective on the younger generation. I was 29 years old at the time and looked like I was 20. I was before I was shot so I weighed at the most 160 lbs., and it’s hard to say I that heavy at the time. Throughout my life I have always been in service and I thought I was very liberal minded; I’ve always loved being nice to people and helping people and so I thought my altruistic personality was perfect for social work. This program
on 11 August 1830, Gra-Colombia, which Ecuador was part, signed with Peru, Pedemonte-Mosquera protocol and gave him the country of the southern territories of the right bank of the river Amazon. On this occasion the Ecuador lost 181,000 km2. To implement the agreed in the Treaty of Guayaquil, Colombia sends General Thomas C. de Mosquera as envoy extraordinary in Peru, who achieved discussions with the Minister of the relations of Peru, Dr. Carlos Pedemonte, who argues that the limits are to be settled in accordance with the Royal Warrant of 1802 including Mainas to Peru.),
On March 25th 1436, a historic feat was accomplished that would change architecture, the Renaissance, and the culture of an entire city. On this date the dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore was completed thanks to the architectural genius and innovative new methods by Filippo Brunelleschi. 16 years earlier the Cathedral overseers held a competition in a desperate attempt to find a plausible design to rebuild the dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore which had fallen in. This seemingly impossible task was accomplished by an unlikely goldsmith, with no formal architectural training. He was motivated not simply to prove his own abilities but to also restore pride and beauty to the city of Florence, which had lost something in status since the dome had collapsed. The dome would also stand as a symbol of freedom from the tyranny of its neighboring city Milan, the birth of new ideas, and the abandonment of the oppression of the Middle Ages.
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The dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence has been a marvel to see because of its great ingenuity. At the time the cathedral had an open roof for decades due to the problem that no one knew how to add a dome atop of the existing structure. Then in 1418 the “overseers” of the cathedral had a contest for people to bring their plans in for the problem at hand, Filippo Brunelleschi was one of them. He was a skilled goldsmith and studied many other architectural outlets. The contest had a hefty prize of 200 gold florins, which lead to Brunelleschi motivation for the concept of the design. There is little of his discovery on how he came up with his concept of the octagon shaped dome because Brunelleschi was a very secretive person and didn’t
In the early 70’s the N.A.S base refreshed the U.S Lexington Air craft on the N.A.S. base and refreshed the sailors, in the downtown Pensacola Municipal Center. Even in in retirement the U.S. Lexington remains a great resource. The city of Pensacola has capitalized on the departure of the U.S. Lexington by establishing the N.A.S museum lecturing on the many voyages of the great aircraft carrier, and mummifying the historical remains, fifteen miles off the Gulf of Mexica. Ultimately, creating an artificial reef attracting new species of fish resourcefully, and capturing the attention of world renown diving archeologist and thrill seekers. Similar, the many historical landmarks that are carried away by the many hurricanes that land ashore each year demising the economic situation of the city and creating a treasure hunt for the local University of West Florida (UWF) archeology