
Fort Ligonier
Fortification in Ligonier, PennsylvaniaWikipedia
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Search complete. 2 mentions across 2 episodes found for "Fort Ligonier".
Sep 29, 2026
WSS114 - The Show Must Go On?
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61:15Jasper OorthuysPANELIST
You can always see something else.
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61:17Jasper OorthuysPANELIST
And then visited Fort Ligonier on the way back and Fort Pitt, which was the Fort Pitt Museum, I should say, which is the most downtown you can get in Pittsburgh.
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61:28Jasper OorthuysPANELIST
On the Forks of the Ohio, where the Susquehanna and Allegheny rivers become the Ohio, giant rivers, lots of bridges around you, lots of very high, tall buildings.
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61:40Jasper OorthuysPANELIST
And then there's like one block house still remaining from the 18th century, which is kind of cool.
Historic Adventures Tales from American History-Rupert S. Holland
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11:05Greg GiordanoNARRATOR
After they had waited at Fort Duquesne eight days, Colonel Boquet started to march with his band of children to the town of Carlisle in hopes that they might find friends farther east, or at least kind-hearted people who would give the children homes.
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11:18Greg GiordanoNARRATOR
He sent news of their march all through the country, and from day to day, as they traveled through the mountains by way of Fort Ligonier, Raystown, and Loudoun, eager people arrived to search among the band of children for lost sons and daughters.
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11:31Greg GiordanoNARRATOR
When the children came to Carlisle, the town was filled with settlers from the east.
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11:35Greg GiordanoNARRATOR
The children stood in the marketplace, and the men and women pressed about them, trying to recognize little ones who had been carried away by Indians years before.