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2 unusual facts about winter quarters


Winter Quarters

Winter Quarters Nebraska Temple, an LDS Church temple operating since 2001 at the encampment site

Cantonment, the establishment of temporary military encampments during winter


Samuel Holden Parsons

At the end of 1778, he joined Connecticut troops at winter quarters in Redding.


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14th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry

In October 1862, the 14th NH arrived in Washington, D.C. where it camped on East Capitol Hill before establishing winter quarters at Poolesville, Maryland.

16th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment

In the Battle of Crampton's Gap it was in the van and lost heavily; was held in reserve at Antietam; at Fredericksburg was posted on picket duty, and after the battle went into winter quarters near Falmouth.

Armand de Vignerot du Plessis

The Duc then led his army into winter quarters at Halberstadt postponing the attack on Magdeburg.

Armand Louis de Gontaut

Lauzun's Legion left their winter quarters in Lebanon, Connecticut on 9 June 1781 and marched south through Connecticut known as the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route.

Battle of Fehrbellin

When Frederick William, encamping at Erstein, heard of the attack and occupation of a large part of his principality in December 1674, he immediately drew his army out of the coalition but had to take winter quarters at Marktbreit in Franconia.

Battle of Krasnoi

The new strategic goal was to put the Grande Armée into winter quarters further west, in the area of the massive French supply depot of Minsk.

Battle of Smithfield

Then, Confederate forces rallied from their nearby winter quarters on the Blackwater River and rushed to repel the invasion.

Ceolwulf II of Mercia

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle offers the following account of Ceolwulf:This year went the army i.e. the Great Heathen Army from Lindsey to Repton, and there took up their winter-quarters, drove the king i.e. of Mercia, Burgred, over sea, when he had reigned about two and twenty winters, and subdued all that land.

Cliffe Vale, Staffordshire

The railway sidings and buildings at Cliffe Vale were used as the winter quarters for the world's biggest circus, Barnum & Bailey, from 1897 until 1911 when Twyfords expanded and the circus had to move elsewhere.

Ikarus ŠM

The prototype was completed by the end of October and the first flight took place on November 10, 1924th, the winter quarters of the Danube in Novi Sad.

Jesse Gove

The 22nd Massachusetts became part of the Army of the Potomac and left their winter quarters on March 10, 1862 to participate in Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Peninsular Campaign.

Marcus Valerius Maximianus

He was in charge of the winter quarters at Laugaricio (modern Trenčín, in Slovakia), where the final battle of the Second Marcommanic War was fought, and was afterwards decorated for his services in the Sarmatian War by the Emperor Commodus.

Nelson P. Boyer Barn

It was known at the turn of the 20th century as the "Showplace of Chester County," and was used by Buffalo Bill as winter quarters and practice.

Pike County, Arkansas

In 1864 Murfreesboro served as a winter quarters for the Confederate regiments assigned to that area, with Union Army regiments wintering just eighteen miles away in and around Antoine.

Scofield, Utah

One of them, David Williams, leased the Winter Quarters Mine from the Pleasant Valley Coal Company from 1880 to 1885, operating in the dual capacity of mine manager and bishop of the local LDS Ward.