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Fort Bliss

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Fort Bliss U.S. army post, 1,122,500 acres (454,300 hectares), W Tex., E of El Paso; est. 1849 and named for Col. William Bliss, Gen. Zachary Taylor's adjutant in the Mexican War. Originally strategically located near the only ice-free pass through the Rocky Mts., it guarded the U.S.-Mexican border and protected West-bound gold seekers from hostile Native Americans; task forces against Cochise and Geronimo were based there. The fort's location has changed several times as a result of flooding; its present site, on a mesa, was established in 1890. In 1916, post commander Gen. John J. Pershing... Read more
Fort Bliss
Fort Bliss a U.S. Army fort near El Paso, Texas. The present fort was occupied for the first time...stood near El Paso. The fort was named in 1854 for William Wallace Smith Bliss, a veteran of the Mexican War (1846–48) who served as a private... Read more
Philip Paul Bliss
...he became associated with Dwight L. Moody and joined Ira D. Sankey in producing a series of songbooks called Gospel Hymns, the first of which appeared in 1875. Among his songs are Hold the Fort, Let the Lower Lights Be Burning, and Jesus Loves Me. Read more

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