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Fort Snelling
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Fort Snelling, on a bluff above the junction of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers, SE Minn.; est. 1820. It served as a regional protective barrier and as a nucleus for settlement. Minneapolis grew on the fort reservation in the mid-1800s.


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The 701st Military Police Battalion, one of the first such battalions in the US Army, was activated at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, on 1 February 1941, with a cadre from the 1st and 20th Infantry Regiments.
searching a Japanese American family's house for evidence of subversion, and a 1945 group portrait of second-generation Japanese American women in the military stationed at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, who were permitted to leave the World War II-era internment camps to enlist.
Less than a month after the 702d MP Battalion activated in Michigan, the 701st Battalion was formed at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, on 1 February 1941.
 
 
 
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