Pentagon Barracks
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The Pentagon Barracks, also known as the Old United States Barracks, is a complex of buildings located at the corner of State Capitol Drive and River Road in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in the grounds of
Pentagon Barracks in 2013
Monument of Sigma Iota's birthplace on the former LSU Campus
The Pentagon Barracks (left) in 1909 in a panorama of what was then the campus of Louisiana State University
Battle of Baton Rouge (1779)
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The Battle of Baton Rouge was a brief siege during the Anglo-Spanish War that was decided on September 21, 1779. Fort New Richmond was the second British outpost to fall to Spanish arms during Bernard
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…colonial governor of Louisiana (New Spain), arrived on 20 September 1779 and found three hundred British troops garrisoning Fort New Richmond. In the Battle of Baton Rouge (1779), engineers under Spanish Governor Gálvez quickly constructed a siege line, enabling the Spanish troops to shell Fort Richmond; the British surrendered…
Bernardo de Gálvez
Daughters of the American Revolution commemorative marker