Author: Jack W. Jaunal Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738558110 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 132
Book Description
Fort Lawton was established to provide protection for the navy yard built at Bremerton in 1891 as well the cities along Puget Sound and the commerce generated by them. The development of Fort Lawton was encouraged by civic leaders in Seattle for economic reasons and to curb lawlessness. Although intended primarily as an infantry post, the first soldiers to arrive on July 26, 1901, were artillerymen. One year later, this artillery installation, the Puget Sound Harbor Defense Command, was moved to Fort Warden and the first infantry soldiers arrived in Fort Lawton. It remained an infantry post throughout most of its years, and Seattle's hopes for a major military installation were not to be realized.
Author: Jack Hamann Publisher: Algonquin Books ISBN: 1565123948 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 391
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Describes the 1944 lynching murder of an Italian POW at Seattle's Fort Lawton, the international outcry that followed, and the court-martial, the largest of World War II, that accused more than forty African-American soldiers of the crime.
Author: Jack William Jaunal Publisher: ISBN: 9780738558110 Category : Fort Lawton (Seattle, Wash.) Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Fort Lawton was established to provide protection for the navy yard built at Bremerton in 1891 as well the cities along Puget Sound and the commerce generated by them. The development of Fort Lawton was encouraged by civic leaders in Seattle for economic reasons and to curb lawlessness. Although intended primarily as an infantry post, the first soldiers to arrive on July 26, 1901, were artillerymen. One year later, this artillery installation, the Puget Sound Harbor Defense Command, was moved to Fort Warden and the first infantry soldiers arrived in Fort Lawton. It remained an infantry post throughout most of its years, and Seattle's hopes for a major military installation were not to be realized.
Author: Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 1192
Book Description
Chiefly a checklist and index to the collections of the Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record housed in the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.