 | 1914 - 686 Seiten
...changed to "Fort Des Moines ' '. A distinguished Englishman visited the Fort and pronounced its site "chosen with singularly bad judgment ; it is low,...and quite unimportant in a military point of view". In his book of travels he gave an insight into the personnel of this Iowa military post, or cantonment,... | |
 | 1914 - 700 Seiten
...changed to "Fort Des Moines ' '. A distinguished Englishman visited the Fort and pronounced its site "chosen with singularly bad judgment ; it is low,...and quite unimportant in a military point of view". In his book of travels he gave an insight into the personnel of this Iowa military post, or cantonment,... | |
 | 1914 - 700 Seiten
...changed to "Fort Des Moines ' '. A distinguished Englishman visited the Fort and pronounced its site "chosen with singularly bad judgment ; it is low,...and quite unimportant in a military point of view ' '. In his book of travels he gave an insight into the personnel of this Iowa military post, or cantonment,... | |
 | Sir Charles Augustus Murray - 1839 - 256 Seiten
...passage over them. The rapids are about fourteen miles long, and at the top of them is a military ppst or cantonment, called Fort des Moines. This site appears...freight on board the steamer, from which I made these pbservations, was twenty-five cents per hundred weight from St. Louis to Keokuk, being one hundred... | |
 | 1920 - 646 Seiten
...transferred to a keel boat to lighten the load so that the boat could ascend the rapids. Murray continues : "The rapids are about fourteen miles long, and at...point of view : moreover, if it had been placed at the « Murray's Travel* in North America, Vol. II, pp. 98-100. lower, instead of the upper end of the rapids,... | |
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This site appears to me to have been chosen with singularly bad judgment; it is low, unhealthy, and quite unimportant in a military point of view... 