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Rome, city, Oneida county, east-central New York, U.S. It is situated 15 miles (24 km) northwest of Utica. The site, at the ancient Native American portage between the Mohawk River and Wood Creek, was fortified by the British as early as 1725. Fort Stanwix (1758), which replaced two previous forts there, was where two important treaties (1768, 1784) were negotiated between Native Americans and colonialists; the fort has been reconstructed as a national monument. The Battle of Oriskany (August 6, 1777) which stopped the British advance during the American Revolution, took place 6 miles (10 km) east of present-day Rome. ...(100 of 333 words)

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