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1861 1st day school for freedmen forms at Fortress Monroe Virginia

1840 Cornelis RT Krayenhoff, fortress architect/cartographer, dies at 82

1812 Brits storm Badajoz fortress, held by French and Spanish

1784 Marquis de Sade transferred from Vincennes fortress to the Bastille

1777 de Sade arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress

1758 Cornelis R T Krayenhoff, Dutch fortress engineer/cartographer

1707 Sebastien le Prestre Vauban, French fortress architect, dies at 73

1634 Petrus "Pieter" van Schooten, fortress architect

1633 Sebastien le Prestre de Vauban, French fortress architect

1496 Moorish fortress Alhambra, near Grenada, surrenders to the Christi

1286 Rabbenu Mir of Rothenbur imprisoned in fortress of Ensisheim

65 Jews revolt against Rome, capturing fortress of Antonia in Jerusalem


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