Great Meadows
Great Meadows see Fort Necessity .
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The war that started a revolution.(USA Yesterday)(exhibition at the Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, explores the Seven Years War)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 5/1/2005; 700+ words
; ...surrender document after his defeat at Fort Necessity; the actual document will appear nearby...Indian; and touch a re-creation of Fort Necessity's wooden stockade, shot through with...countryside. Sites of interest include Fort Necessity (the only national park on a French...
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Receipt.(Poem)
Magazine article from: The Literary Review; 3/22/2002; ; 108 words
; ...is 2002 Poet-in-Residence at Purchase College, State University of New York. His work has appeared in recent issues of Ploughshares, Agni, Volt, Seneca Review, Fort Necessity, Fence, and other journals. He lives in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.
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Axelrod, Alan. Blooding at Great Meadows; young George Washington and the battle that shaped the man.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
Magazine article from: Kliatt; 9/1/2007; ; 257 words
; ...to them and were building a series of forts, including Fort Duquesne, along the Ohio River. Washington's men constructed Fort Necessity as a defensive measure. Due to his inexperience, the fort was ill conceived, poorly constructed, and poorly situated. This...
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Proclamation 7293--National Park Week, 2000.(Brief Article)(Transcript)
Newspaper article from: Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents; 4/17/2000; ; 479 words
; ...Sojourner Truth; Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the Wright Brothers, and Thomas Edison. From Fort Necessity in Pennsylvania, where a young George Washington saw action in the French and Indian War, to the quiet acres of Gettysburg...
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String theory readymade.(Poem)
Magazine article from: The Literary Review; 3/22/2002; ; 222 words
; ...is 2002 Poet-in-Residence at Purchase College, State University of New York. His work has appeared in recent issues of Ploughshares, Agni, Volt, Seneca Review, Fort Necessity, Fence, and other journals. He lives in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.
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Sausalito lands 2 blows against Fort Baker convention center plan.(base reuse)
Newspaper article from: California Planning & Development Report; 12/1/2004; 657 words
; ...the Marin County portion of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The city, which abuts the former base, would like to see Fort Baker's historic sites restored without additional commercial development. The Park Service contends that it must generate...
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Louise Dechene, Le Peuple, l'Etat et la Guerre au Canada sous le Regime francais.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Anthropologie et Societés; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...assignés aux préparatifs pour contrer une attaque de l'ouest. Pour Dechêne, l'affrontement sanglant du 3 juillet 1754 au fort Necessity est à l'origine de la percée de l'armée britannique en Nouvelle-France. L'invasion, au chapitre onze, en témoigne. Après...
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Antique virtues. (new edition of David Humphrey's book on George Washington)
Magazine article from: National Review; 4/29/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...Cartooch boxes and firelocks, but that which was in a small temporary stockade in the middle of the Intrenchment called Fort Necessity. . . . Here is a night piece. The shocking scenes which presented themselves in this Nights march are not to be described...
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Life of George Washington.
Magazine article from: National Review; 4/29/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...Cartooch boxes and firelocks, but that which was in a small temporary stockade in the middle of the Intrenchment called Fort Necessity. . . . Here is a night piece. The shocking scenes which presented themselves in this Nights march are not to be described...
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Two moons.(Poem)
Magazine article from: The Literary Review; 3/22/2002; ; 242 words
; ...is 2002 Poet-in-Residence at Purchase College, State University of New York. His work has appeared in recent issues of Ploughshares, Agni, Volt, Seneca Review, Fort Necessity, Fence, and other journals. He lives in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.
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Great Meadow, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Great Meadow, The, novel by Elizabeth M. Roberts , published in 1930.
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Great Meadows
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
GREAT MEADOWS GREAT MEADOWS, ten miles east of present-day Uniontown...on a small French force north of Great Meadows. By June Fry had died and Washington...Bunkered at Fort Necessity near Great Meadows, Washington's force was attacked...
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Draper's Meadows
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
DRAPER'S MEADOWS DRAPER'S MEADOWS, the first settlement west of the great Allegheny divide, on the present site of Blacks-burg, Virginia, was founded in 1748 in the New River section by John Draper, Thomas...
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Hormead, Great
Book article from: A Dictionary of British Place-Names
Hormead, Great Herts. Horemede 1086 ( DB ). ‘Muddy meadow’. OE horu + mæd .
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Dunmow, Great
Book article from: A Dictionary of British Place-Names
Dunmow, Great & Dunmow, Little Essex. Dunemowe 951, Dommawa 1086 ( DB ). ‘Meadow on the hill’. OE dūn + * māwe .
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