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unusual facts about Fort Madison, Nuku Hiva



Charles A. Kelly

The court sentenced them both to death by hanging; Brown was executed at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison on 24 July 1962, and Kelly was hanged at the same prison on 6 September.

Colony

The United States also founded their own colonies in both the Atlantic and Pacific regions, such as Madisonville on the island of Nuku Hiva in 1813 and Monrovia in 1821.

Fort Osage

1: Fort Bellefontaine U.S. headquarters; 2: Fort Osage, abandoned 1813; 3: Fort Madison, defeated 1813; 4: Fort Shelby, defeated 1814; 5: Battle of Rock Island Rapids, July 1814 and the Battle of Credit Island, Sept. 1814; 6: Fort Johnson, abandoned 1814; 7: Fort Cap au Gris and the Battle of the Sink Hole, May 1815.

Nuku Hiva

In Edward Everett Hale's novella "The Man Without a Country", Nolan helps Commodore Porter in the victory at Nuka Hiva (spelled Nukahiwa).

Nuku Hiva Airport

Nuku Hiva Airport is an airport on Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia.

Typee

Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846) is the first book by American writer Herman Melville, a classic in the literature of travel and adventure partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on the island Nuku Hiva (which Melville spelled as Nukuheva) in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands, in 1842.


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