The British fort, captured by the French in 1757 during the French and Indian War, was located in New York near Lake George.
Where was Fort McHenry?
The fort that withstood British bombardment during the War
of 1812 was on the Patapsco River in Baltimore, Maryland.
Where was Fort Henry?
The Confederate stronghold captured by the Union in 1862 was on the Tennessee River in Tennessee.
Invented by Samuel F. B. Morse and completed in 1844, the telegraph line ran from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, Maryland. The first message, telegraphed on May 24, 1844, was, “What hath God wrought!”
The name “America” first appeared in print in 1507 in Cosmographiae Introductio by German mapmaker Martin Waldseemuller. Waldseemiiller named it in honor of explorer Amerigo Vespucci, whom he believed was the true discoverer of America. Vespucci’s claims to have been the first to reach the American mainland (in 1497) and the first to realize that…
The eastern branch of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad, the Union Pacific, employed mainly Irish workers; the western branch, the Central Pacific, employed mainly Chinese workers. The two work crews met at Promontory, Utah, in May 1869, completing the transcontinental link.
From left to right, the U.S. presidents are carved on Mount Rushmore are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.
The company IBM, now known as International Business Machines was originally founded as the Computing Tabulating Recording Company in 1911.
No number of Supreme Court justices is specified in the U.S. Constitution. The Supreme Court began with six justices, rose to a peak of ten during the Lincoln years, and settled at nine in 1869.