Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1173
Land area (2000): 2.726176 sq. miles (7.060762 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.726176 sq. miles (7.060762 sq. km)
FIPS code: 26872
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.138559 N, 75.191419 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 19034
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Headwords:
Fort Washington
Housing Units (2000): 8621
Land area (2000): 13.576274 sq. miles (35.162388 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.424455 sq. miles (1.099334 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 14.000729 sq. miles (36.261722 sq. km)
FIPS code: 29525
Located within: Maryland (MD), FIPS 24
Location: 38.743481 N, 77.010383 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 20744
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Headwords:
Fort Washington
Wikipedia
Fort Washington may refer to:
Fort Washington was a fort in the early history of Cincinnati, Ohio. The location is marked by a plaque at the Guilford School building, at 421 E 4th St, Cincinnati, which now occupies the site. The physical location of the fort was facing the mouth of the Licking River, above present day Fort Washington Way.
Fort Washington was a fortified position near the north end of Manhattan Island (now part of the New York City neighborhood of Washington Heights) and was located at the highest point on the island. The Fort Washington Site is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
Fort Washington, also known as Fort Washington Park, is an historic site at 95 Waverly Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was built by soldiers of the Continental Army under the orders of George Washington in November 1775. It is the oldest surviving fortification from the American Revolutionary War and the only surviving fortification from the Siege of Boston. Fort Washington was placed on the List of Registered Historic Places in Massachusetts on April 3, 1973.
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That same day, Lee himself wrote to James Bowdoin, president of the Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety, Before the unfortunate affair at Fort Washington it was my opinion that the two armiesthat on the east and that on the west side of the North Rivermust rest each on its own bottom.
About the same number of men are on both sides of the river, ready to attack Fort Washington.
In the aftermath of still further defeat in New York--at White Plains, and Fort Washington--the general had beat an inglorious retreat south through New Jersey to the Delaware, his army dwindling to less than 4,000 men, many of whom were without shoes and so thinly clad as to be unfit for service.
The big black Tahoe was brought to a complete halt opposite Fort Washington and was reduced to a lurching stop-start crawl all the way under the George Washington Bridge.
The news reports dwelled with loving emphasis on the twenty-six tenants of the building who had watched in cold interest as Leona Ciarelli, 37, of 455 Fort Washington Avenue, Manhattan, had been systematically stabbed to death by Burton H.