Meaning: A member of an uncivilized people. Classified under: Nouns denoting people. Synonyms: savage; barbarian. Hypernyms (barbarian is a kind of...): primitive; primitive person (a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of barbarian): anthropophagite; anthropophagus; cannibal; man-eater (a person who eats human flesh) head-shrinker; headhunter (a savage who cuts off and preserves the heads of enemies as trophies) hunter-gatherer (a member of a hunting and gathering society)
Historic Fort Hamilton is located in the southwestern corner of the New York City borough of Brooklyn surrounded by the communities of Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights, and is one of several posts that are part of the region which is headquartered by the Military District of Washington.
Fort Hamilton. Arthur St. Clair, a general in the United States Army, ordered the construction of Fort Hamilton in September 1791. The fort was the first of many built north from Cincinnati in American Indian territory. Fort Hamilton served as a supply depot for American expeditions against natives living along the Great Miami River, the Auglaize River, and the Maumee River during the early 1790s.