• the Military Division of the Pacific was created, consisting of the Department of California and Department of the Columbia. Humboldt District was absorbed...
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    Bald Hills War (category Military history of California)
    Humboldt Military District, which was formed to organize the effort to unseat the native population. The district was headquartered at Fort Humboldt,...
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  • commanding an all-volunteer Battalion of Mountaineers and the Humboldt Military District in the Bald Hills War against the Indians in northwest California...
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    surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Humboldt No. 370. Named after German explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Humboldt began as a telegraph station located...
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    During the Civil War, Fort Humboldt was the headquarters of the District of Humboldt (also termed the Humboldt Military District), which was part of the...
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    Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent...
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    was established by Col. Francis J. Lippitt, commander of the Humboldt Military District as one of a number of posts to protect the settlers. It was the...
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    1st California Mountaineers Battalion (category Military units and formations of the United States in the Indian Wars)
    was being fought over in the Bald Hills War in Humboldt County within the Humboldt Military District. The Battalion mustered out June 14, 1865. In a...
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    The Humboldt University of Berlin (German: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university in the central borough...
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    Henry M. Black (category Military personnel from Delaware County, Pennsylvania)
    was sent to Fort Humboldt with three companies of reinforcements ("C," "E" and "G"), to take command of the Humboldt Military District. In June 1864 he...
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