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Colonel Henry Leavenworth of the 3d U.S. Infantry, a brevet brigadier general in the U.S. Army, established Fort Leavenworth on May 8, 1827. He was born on Dec. 10, 1783, and died on July 21, 1834.
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Leavenworth, Kansas · United States
