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  Philip Kearny - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kearny was sent to France in 1839 to study cavalry tactics, first attending school at the famous cavalry school in Saumur, France, and then participating in several combat engagements with the Chasseurs d'Afrique in Algiers.
Kearny, disappointed with the lack of fighting he was seeing in the Army, resigned his commission in 1846, but returned to duty only a month later at of the outbreak of the Mexican-American War.
Kearny and his men participated in the battles of Contreras and Churubusco; in the latter engagement Kearny led a daring cavalry charge and suffered a grapeshot wound to his left arm, which later had to be amputated.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philip_Kearny   (1472 words)

  
 Kearny, New Jersey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kearny is a Town located in Hudson County, New Jersey.
It was named after famous Civil War general Philip Kearny.
Kearny is located at 40°45'47" North, 74°8'14" West (40.763051, -74.137187)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kearny,_New_Jersey   (417 words)

  
 Kearny Real Estate Company
Kearny is uniquely qualified given its development expertise and experience, land holdings and capital relationships to assist tenants and buyers with their build-to-suit requirements.
Kearny has completed in excess of 1.5 million square feet of office and industrial build-to-suits in the last three years.
Kearny is pleased to have been awarded the contract for the construction of the Los Angeles Air Force Base 542,000 sf build-to-suit and private sector development of the excess land in El Segundo and Hawthorne.
www.kearny.com /build.asp   (360 words)

  
 General Philip Kearny
The suburban Kearny Homestead owned by his father and used on many weekends by the couple was located on another Broadway, this one in Newark.
Kearny called on the assistance of his uncle, Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Watts Kearny, as well as the even more prestigious General Winfield Scott, who he had met and impressed while in school.
Kearny was one of those chosen, perhaps due to the fact that his uncle Stephen made the selections.
www.njhm.com /kearny.htm   (1623 words)

  
 Kearny News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Kearny voters defeated the budget proposed by the Board of Education in April, which would have meant a school tax hike of $275 over four quarters for the average home assessed at $100,000.
Kearny officials said the estimated tax bills will be mailed sometime late this month, with payment for the third quarter of 2005 due in late August.
KEARNY – Located in the most densely populated county of the state, the operations within the southern, industrial part of town are often scrutinized for various security reasons.
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 General Philip Kearny, Patron General of New Jersey
Kearny was born on June 1, 1815 in a mansion on Broadway in New York City.
Kearny had always affiliated himself with the South, due to his upbringing, but he was a staunch Union man and an abolitionist to boot.
It was a sharp fight, in a blinding thunderstorm, and Kearny was seen in his familiar guise of sword in one hand and reins in his teeth.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Delphi/1316/kearny.html   (1395 words)

  
 Philip Kearny   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Phil Kearny's mother died when he was nine years old, and he was raised by his wealthy grandfather in New York City.
His uncle, Stephen W. Kearny, was a general in the U.S. Dragoons, and Phil, too, wanted a military career.
Lee sent Kearny's horse and equipment to his widow, and his body was returned under a flag of truce.
civilwar.bluegrass.net /OfficersAndEnlistedMen/philipkearny.html   (376 words)

  
 Kearny Real Estate Company
Kearny continues to invest in, manage and develop a variety of real estate projects with partners.
The partners of Kearny also co-invest their own capital alongside the financial partners assuring that partners' interests are aligned.
Kearny has strong lender relationships with many local, regional and national banks, as well as institutional and conduit lenders.
www.kearny.com /client.asp   (418 words)

  
 STEPHEN WATTS KEARNY
At the outbreak of the Mexican War, Kearny was considered one of the army's most capable officers, and he was made commander of the Army of the West by President Polk and ordered to lead an expeditionary force to occupy New Mexico and California.
Kearny's position was ultimately upheld and Fremont, who had refused to obey his superior officer, was later court martialed and resigned from the army.
Kearny built more frontier posts than any contemporary, led some of the longest marches in American history, and brought law and order to vast portions of the country that had previously known little of either.
bchs.kearney.net /BTales_197901.htm   (1213 words)

  
 Search Results for "Kearny"
Kearny, Philip, 1814-62, Union general in the American Civil War, b.
It is navigable by oceangoing vessels to Kearny, N.J., and by tugs and barges to Hackensack, N.J. The river's upper course...
Nearby are a reproduction of Fort Phil Kearny (a post in the 1860s); and the Brinton Memorial Ranch, which commemorates...
www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col65&query=Kearny   (284 words)

  
 DANFS: USS Kearny (DD-432)
Lawrence Kearny was born in Perth Amboy, N.J., 30 November 1789 and appointed Midshipman in the Navy 24 July 1807.
Commodore Kearny was known for his tenacity in capturing slave traders in West-Indian waters and his tireless efforts in fighting Greek pirates in the Mediterranean.
Kearny was detached from the group the beginning of June and steamed to Anzio alone to give Allied troops their last naval fire support prior to their breakthrough and capture of Rome.
www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/ships/danfs/DD/dd432.html   (779 words)

  
 Kearny, Philip on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Upon the outbreak of the Civil War he was appointed brigadier general of volunteers and given command of the 1st New Jersey Brigade.
Kearny fought in the Peninsular campaign and at the second battle of Bull Run.
Kearny was noted for his courage and dash and was idolized by his men.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/Kearny-P1.asp   (375 words)

  
 Kearny dd 432
Kearny (DD-432) was launched 9 March 1940 by the Federal Ship Building and Dry Dock Co., Kearny, N.J.; sponsored by Miss Mary Kearny; and commissioned on 13 September 1940, Comdr.
While Kearny was escorting a convoy in the North Atlantic before the United States entered the war, three convoy merchant ships were torpedoed 16 October.Kearny immediately began dropping depth charges and continued to barrage throughout the night.
Kearny was subsequently moved to Orange, Tex. where she remains into 1967.
www.multied.com /navy/destroyer/Kearnydd432.html   (655 words)

  
 Fort Kearny - The Rest of the Story, Part I
Kearny was accompanied by a number of soldiers who later distinguished themselves in the Civil War, including his nephew Philip Kearny.
Kearny’s original recommendation was for a roving mounted patrol rather than a stationary base to show an organized and powerful military presence to the various Indian tribes.
Fort Kearny on the Platte was the first fort established along the overland trails to aid and protect the travelers, with Fort Laramie to follow in 1849.
bchs.kearney.net /BTales_200001.htm   (2028 words)

  
 Col. Stephen Watts Kearny
Kearny was born August 30, 1794 in Newark New Jersey, but he lived in the wild and uncharted West during most of his remarkable 36 years of service.
Kearny's military career began, and nearly ended in the Battle of Queenstown Heights during the War of 1812, when he was wounded and taken prisoner.
Kearny's weary men were overwhelmed by the primitively armed resistance in the Battle of San Pasqual.
rip.physics.unk.edu /Kearney/SWK.html   (705 words)

  
 Fort Phil Kearny / Bozeman Trail Association and Foundation, Wyoming
The dramatic story of Fort Phil Kearny represented a 'microcosm' of the early events in the West and was a forerunner to the events at the Little Big Horn a decade later.
It was the story of the Indians, emigrants, the military, civilian contractors, Indian and white women and children as well as warriors and soldiers...of the famous ride of John "Portuguese" Phillips to Fort Laramie after the Fetterman Fight, and the Wagon Box Fight of 1867.
During its brief two-year existence, Fort Phil Kearny was the focal point of a violent war between the U.S. Army and the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians.
philkearny.vcn.com   (383 words)

  
 About Kearny   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Kearny was a planned community built in 1958 to house workers from the nearby Kennecott Copper Company open-pit mine and reduction plant.
Upstream from Kearny on the Gila River is Coolidge Dam, dedicated by former President Calvin Coolidge in 1930.
Kearny is governed by a mayor, six council members and a town manager.
www.townofkearny.com /Pages/about.html   (838 words)

  
 Index to Philip Kearny's Pages
Philip Kearny (pronounced CAR-nee) was a flamboyant adventurer and soldier who most notably fought for the United States of America in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil Wars.
In Memory of Philip Kearny - A tribute to General Philip Kearny, featuring the famous poem "Kearny at Seven Pines" by Edmund Clarence Stedman, images of the Kearny Cross and Kearny Medal of Valor, and the lithograph "Death of General Kearny, September 1, 1862" by Allen C. Redwood.
Philip Kearny at the Battle of Chantilly - Read about the battle in a description written by Kearny's aide de camp, and see a picture of Kearny's statue at Arlington National Cemetery where he is buried.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Aegean/6732/kearny.html   (530 words)

  
 Kearny, Stephen Watts. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A dispute arose between Kearny and Stockton as to the chief command, and Col. John C. Frémont, appointed civil governor of California by Stockton, refused to obey Kearny’s orders.
Kearny was military governor of the territory until the end of May, 1847.
Afterward he went to Mexico, where he was governor of Veracruz and then of Mexico City for brief periods in 1848.
www.bartleby.com /65/ke/Kearny-S.html   (266 words)

  
 Kearny On The Web
I guess Kearny is not "anywhere in the world".
When the Kearny webmaster gets around to correcting what was listed on the April 24, 2005 editorial, I suggest adding Councilwoman Carol Jean Doyle's biography to the Mayor and Council page.
Kearny Mayor Alberto Santos recently mentioned the KOTW Discussion Board at a council meeting when he discussed a December 12, 2003 post by Councilman Mangin under the Property Taxes Going Through the Roof discussion thread.
www.kearnyontheweb.com   (3189 words)

  
 Kearny, NJ - New Jersey Florists, buy flowers from your local full service retail flower shops and florist serving ...
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 Kearny Mesa Community | Council District 6
"Kearny Mesa is a key component to San Diego's economy.
Kearny Mesa is a major industrial and commercial center occupying a central location in the City of San Diego.
Kearny Mesa has been identified as a community appropriate for the "City of Villages" concept of development.
www.sandiego.gov /citycouncil/cd6/communities/kearnymesa/index.shtml   (160 words)

  
 Phillip Kearny Biography Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Kearny was born in New York, 2 June 2, 1815 and after his mother died when he was 9, he spent his childhood and youth with his maternal grandfather, a man of wealth and high social position.
Kearny's uncle, Gen. Stephen Watts Kearny, was a U.S. dragoon and Philip favored a military life, but his grandfather, who had lost all his sons, persuaded him to go to Columbia University.
In the Mexican War, Kearny accompanied Scott to Mexico City and at Churubusco was wounded so severely that his left arm had to be amputated.
www.civilwarhome.com /kearnybio.htm   (353 words)

  
 New Page 1
Kearny, June 3, 2003 Despite being endorsed and having the benefit of the money from the Hudson County Democratic Organization, West Hudson votes rejected the ticket candidates, line "A," and the backed opposition, Line "E," in a stunning defeat tonight.
In Kearny, Mayor Alberto Santos managed to pull off a stunning victory: he and all his running mates on the "E" ticket were leading by large margins as of 10pm tonight and the presumed winners in the morning.
Depending on how you look at, the "good" news is that Kearny is not along in facing this danger from chemical plants, which make for an even stronger case for action on this matter.
www.publiccitizenonline.com   (1096 words)

  
 Kearny, Arizona The Copper Capital of the World!
Kearny was born directly as a result of copper, as the original towns of Ray, Sonora, and Barcelona were consumed by the open mine pit in the late 1950's.
Families were moved 10 miles to the East to start the new town named after Stephen Watts Kearny, a famous general of the Mexican-American War.
The town of Kearny, named after Stephen Watts Kearny, who travelled through the area around 1846 on the way to California along the Gila River, was created in 1958 to provide housing to the residents of Ray, Barcelona, and Sonora AZ ten miles down the road.
widget.ecn.purdue.edu /~nebeker/kearny.html   (488 words)

  
 Major General Philip Kearny - Union Officer and Hero
Philip Kearny was one of the most competent and aggressive of the Union officers in the early years of the Civil war.
He was critical of McClellan’s slow progress during the course of the campaign and took to referring to the army commander as “the Virginia Creeper.” His services were rewarded with a second star shortly after the conclusion of the campaign.
With the failure of the McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign, Kearny’s division was sent, along with other units, to reinforce General John Pope’s forces in northern Virginia.
www.swcivilwar.com /kearny.html   (429 words)

  
 Kearny New Jersey Local Businesses, Entertainment & Community Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In the middle 1800's, Kearny was the upper, or northern, section of the Township of Harrison.
The town was named to honor Major General Phil Kearny, Commander of the NJ Forces in the Civil War and the late resident of well-known "Belle Grove", locally called Kearny Castle.
In 1899, Kearny was Incorporated as a Town, thereby increasing at that time the number of towns in the State of NJ to 16.
www.justaroundtown.com /index.cfm?SiteID=42   (1420 words)

  
 Fort Kearny
No further construction was carried on except for the erection of a number of log huts for temporary quarters for a battalion of troops who wintered there in 1847-48 preliminary to their departure for the Platte where a new post was established along the Oregon Trail route.
Fort Kearny, like most of the forts in the West, has no fortifications but is merely a station for troops.
At Fort Kearny freighting and emigrants trains were held at the fort untill a sufficient number accumulated so they would be able to defend themselves.
www2.sandi.net /kearny/history/swk/fk.html   (2011 words)

  
 Fort Kearny
olonel Stephen Watts Kearny had explored the area in 1843 and the fort was named after him.
Fort Kearny was made out of mostly wood and some cottonwood.
It was developed quickly because Fort Kearny was one of the most important stops on the Oregon Trail.
www.beavton.k12.or.us /greenway/leahy/ot/fort_kearny.htm   (126 words)

  
 Ft Kearny on the Oregon-Trail
Kearny was the first military post built to protect the Oregon Trail emigrants.
Kearny was not the walled fortification that many pioneers expected.
It was instead a collection of ramshackle buildings, most made of sod.
www.isu.edu /~trinmich/FtKearny.html   (157 words)

  
 Copper Basin Chamber of Commerce
The planned community of Kearny and her sister cities of Hayden and Winkelman offer magnificent scenery with majestic mountains, sprawling desert landscapes and the Gila River valley.
Kearny is located 78 miles southeast of Phoenix and 80 miles northwest of Tucson.
To reach Kearny from Phoenix, follow Interstate 10 to U.S. 60, continue east to Superior, turn south on State Highway 177.
www.copperbasinaz.com   (144 words)

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