X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Duquesne


Ligonier Valley, Pennsylvania

The British troops, under Gen. Forbes and Col. Washington, pressed on after the Ligonier victory; when they arrived at Duquesne, they found the fort afire.

They began firing at 11:00 am and the battle lasted until 3:00 pm After a spirited encounter, the French and Indians were beaten off with a heavy loss and they fled back to Duquesne.


Antoine Duquesne

Antoine Duquesne (3 February 1941 – 4 November 2010) was a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the French Community of Belgium with the MR/MCC/PRL, Member of the Bureau of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.

Charles Dougherty

Charles J. Dougherty (born 1949), President of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Chester Adgate Congdon

He had membership with the Kitchi Gammi, Northland Country, Commercial and Duluth Boat Clubs, all of Duluth; the Minnesota Club of St. Paul; the Minneapolis Club of Minneapolis; the University Club of Chicago; the Duquesne Club of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; the Bankers Club of New York; the Commercial Club of North Yakima; and with various college fraternities, including the Upsilon Kappa, Psi Upsilon, Theta Nu Epsilon and Phi Beta Kappa.

DQE

Duquesne Light was one of the dozens of companies founded by inventor George Westinghouse and for its first 75 years of operation (1870s-1940s) was a subsidiary of the holding company known as the "Philadelphia Company".

Duquesne Brewing Company

In June 2010, Pittsburgh-area attorney Mark J. Dudash announced plans to resurrect the Duquesne Beer brand, to be brewed by the City Brewing Company at the Latrobe Brewing Plant in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, starting in late June.

Flamingo Field

Duquesne practiced at Flamingo Field in December 1936 prior to the 1937 Orange Bowl.

Gabriel Fackre

Dorothy, also an ordained clergyperson, served with Gabriel in congregations in the Chicago stockyards district and in the greater Pittsburgh steel mill towns of Homestead and Duquesne, Pennsylvania for 12 years.

Henry J. McAnulty

McAnulty returned to Duquesne in October 1958 by the invitation of President Vernon F. Gallagher.

John Baxter Barbour, Jr.

His club membership is in the Duquesne, Pittsburgh Athletic Association, Stanton Heights Golf Club and Americus Republican clubs.

McKeesport Connecting Railroad Bridge

The bridge connected connected the U.S. Steel Duquesne Works and the National Tube Works in McKeesport and was used by Pennsylvania Union Railroad which is owned and operated by Transtar, Inc., the railroad division of U.S. Steel.

Raymond Kirk

Raymond V. Kirk (1901–1947), American Catholic priest and president of Duquesne University

Shawn Liotta

Liotta gained experience at the college level as the Running Backs coach at Duquesne University where he was a part of the Dukes 2003 NCAA Division IAA- Mid Major National Championship under Head Coach Greg Gattuso.

Two on a Guillotine

Reporter Val Henderson offers to stay with her when he learns Duquesne promised to return in spirit form during Cassie's week-long vigil.

William G. Sebold

Duquesne had been a spy for Germany since World War I; before that, he had been a Boer spy in the Second Boer War.


see also