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Fort Snelling Sketch 1833
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12015-12-02T02:38:40-08:00The Fort8plain2015-12-15T14:22:46-08:00http://scalar.usc.edu/works/fort-snelling/history2-westwardexpansion.editIn 1805, Lieutenant Zebulon Pike of the United States Army conducted a treaty agreement with the Dakota Nation in which the United States acquired two large tracts of land now known as Pike's Purchase. This purchase included the Bdote and surrounding lands.
Shortly after the agreement was signed, the United States Department of War, under the secretaryship of John C. Calhoun, built a chain of forts across the American West to better protect against a potential British invasion from Canada. Constructed in 1819, Fort Saint Anthony was one of these forts. Upon its completion in 1825, it was renamed Fort Snelling in honor of its first commander, U.S. Army Colonel Josiah Snelling.
The above image is a sketch of the site as it would have looked in the mid-1820s.
