From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #14214 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Thursday, July 4 2024 Volume 14 : Number 14214 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Important Email â DO NOT IGNORE ["Wendy" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2024 15:38:22 +0200 From: "Wendy" Subject: Important Email â DO NOT IGNORE Important Email b DO NOT IGNORE http://xitox.ru.com/_1KJSNdT6dj0z5WZN-Ztefp5Y432Lw67jN956XjGbCVl1AcqnQ http://xitox.ru.com/xd996Cio0mBGZPPGg2pNQVjhJxhZfXkkVqxZ-YCnhGGzVcNbcg e site for West Point was originally picked because of the pronounced S-curve in the Hudson River at that point during the American Revolutionary War, and was the subject of a committee reporting on fortifications in the Hudson River in November 1775, which first recommended occupying the land. Construction of the fort was begun under Captain Louis de la Radiere as chief engineer of the fort, however, New York Governor George Clinton thought that Radiere was "lacking" in the knowledge needed to hold his position. Thus it was completed under Polish Colonel Tadeusz Ko?ciuszko between 1778b1780; it was a key defensive fortification, overlooking the turn in the Hudson River and the Great Chain. On January 27, 1778, Brigadier General Samuel Holden Parsons and his brigade, including elements of Connecticut Colony's patriot militia, crossed an iced over Hudson River and climbed to the plain on West Point. General George Washington watched the construction of the fort closely and considered the fort to be General Alexander McDougall's "first priority". In 1778, Major General Israel Putnam wrote, "The place agreed upon to obstruct the navigation of Hudson river was at West Point." A fort there, Fort Clinton, named after the governor's brother, Colonel James Clinton (whose brigade built the main fort), was built as well. The southern and western walls were nine feet high and twenty feet thick. Three redoubts and batteries on the sou ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #14214 ***********************************************