Fort Lawton
Fort Lawton

Author: Jack W. Jaunal

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2008-06

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738558110

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Fort Lawton was established to provide protection for the navy yard built at Bremerton in 1891 as well the cities along Puget Sound and the commerce generated by them. The development of Fort Lawton was encouraged by civic leaders in Seattle for economic reasons and to curb lawlessness. Although intended primarily as an infantry post, the first soldiers to arrive on July 26, 1901, were artillerymen. One year later, this artillery installation, the Puget Sound Harbor Defense Command, was moved to Fort Warden and the first infantry soldiers arrived in Fort Lawton. It remained an infantry post throughout most of its years, and Seattle's hopes for a major military installation were not to be realized.

On American Soil
On American Soil

Author: Jack Hamann

Publisher: Algonquin Books

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1565123948

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Describes the 1944 lynching murder of an Italian POW at Seattle's Fort Lawton, the international outcry that followed, and the court-martial, the largest of World War II, that accused more than forty African-American soldiers of the crime.