Fort Reno
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Fort Reno may refer to any of the three United States Army
posts named for General Jesse L. Reno
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United States Army
The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...
posts named for General Jesse L. Reno
Jesse L. Reno
Jesse Lee Reno was a career United States Army officer who served in the Mexican-American War, the western frontier, and as a Union General during the American Civil War...
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- Fort Reno ParkFort Reno ParkFort Reno Park is a park in the Tenleytown neighborhood of Washington, DC. It is the highest point in the city, and was involved in the only Civil War battle to take place in the District of Columbia...
, in Washington, D.C., established 1862 (originally Fort Pennsylvania) - Fort Reno (Oklahoma)Fort Reno (Oklahoma)Fort Reno was established as a permanent post in July 1875, near the Darlington Indian Agency on the old Cheyenne-Arapaho reservation in Indian Territory, in present-day central Oklahoma. Named for General Jesse L. Reno, who died at the Battle of South Mountain, it supported the U.S...
, in present-day Oklahoma, established during the Indian Wars, July 1865 - Fort Reno (Wyoming)Fort Reno (Wyoming)Fort Reno was a wooden fort constructed in 1865 by the United States Army on the Great Plains frontier in the Dakota Territory in present-day Johnson County, Wyoming...
, in present-day Wyoming on the Bozeman Trail, established August 1865