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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
1849: Major Ripley Arnold Speaks Up In Defense of the New Fort on the Trinity
It is 1849 on the Grand Prairie of Texas, just east of the Cross Timbers on a high bluff overlooking the the confluence of the Clear Fork and the West Fork of the Trinity River. A new U.S. Army outpost has just been established by young Brevet Major Ripley Arnold as part of a defensive picket to protect new settlements. The post which does not have a protective palisade, is named Fort Worth.
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Construction work gets underway, scouts and patrols by the mounted 2nd Dragoon troops are begun. Contact is made with the few local settlers. Local Indian tribes as well as itinerant hunting groups are received at the camp and trading is begun.
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