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Fort Stanwix National MonumentThe fort wall is seen with a blue, white and red standard flutters, and soldiers in rank fires over the wall
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Fort Stanwix National Monument
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a lush green grassy hole is filled with large, white, triangular, canvas tents. wooden walls and shadows loom over them.
White canvas tents surround in the ditch surround the walled wooden fortress.
Tents of campfollowers and overflow troops sit in the ditch surrounding the fort.
The Fort Stanwix Treaty of 1784, signed between the United States and the Iroquois Nation. Written on parchment paper  

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Seven American Indian Treaties and Land Purchases were negotiated or concluded at the site of Fort Stanwix.
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Last Updated: August 27, 2006 at 11:48 EST