Fort Jesup, also known as Fort Jesup State Historic Site or Fort Jesup or Fort Jesup State Monument, was built in 1822, 22 miles (35 km) west of Natchitoches...

Major General – 8 May 1828 Jesup, Georgia; Lake Jesup, Florida; and Fort Jesup, Louisiana, were named in his honor. 1986, Jesup was inducted into the Quartermaster...

south, 1827, and Noble, in the north portion, dating back to the 1830s. Fort Jesup was founded in 1822 by Lieutenant Colonel Zachary Taylor who later became...

Florida. He built Fort Gardiner and Fort Basinger as supply depots and communication centers in support of Major General Thomas S. Jesup's campaign to penetrate...

General Eleazer Wheelock Ripley, then Fort Selden for Captain Joseph Selden, Corps of Artillery. When Fort Jesup was established in 1822, the troops were...

1811 prior to the French invasion of Russia The army of observation at Fort Jesup, Louisiana, United States, which monitored Texas' transition from Spanish...

president Jefferson Davis (1808–1889) when living with her father and family at Fort Crawford during the Black Hawk War in 1832. They married in 1835 and she...

in charge of the third column. Jesup ordered him to set up a depot somewhere near the Peace River. Taylor built Fort Gardner (near Lake Tohopekaliga)...

la Palma to the Americans.: 59  Recalling his experiences at the Siege of Fort Texas, he positioned his forces along the twelve foot deep and two hundred...

purchasing land in the area. In the early 1830s, the family was with Taylor at Fort Crawford as he waged the Black Hawk War. Later they returned to Baton Rouge...