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Henry Leavenworth

LEAVENWORTH, Henry, soldier, born in New Haven, Connecticut, 10 December, 1783; died in Cross Timbers, Indian territory, 21 July, 1834. He studied and practised law, and at the beginning of the war of 1812 was appointed captain in the 25th infantry. Promoted major, 15 August, 1813, lieutenant-colonel, 10 February, 1818, and colonel, 16 December, 1825, he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for gallantry at the battle of Chippewa, colonel for meritorious conduct at Niagara, where he was wounded, and brigadier-general, 25 July, 1824, for "ten years' faithful service in one grade." He subsequently commanded an expedition against the Arickaree Indians on the upper Missouri river, and founded several military posts on the western frontier, one of which, Fort Leavenworth, was the nucleus of the Kansas town of that name.

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