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ADELBERT, an American soldier, born in New York City in 1861. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1882 and from the A Artillery School in 1886, rose through the various grades, and became a colon'l in the Coast Artillery Corps in 1911 and brigadiergeneral in 1917. On April 5 of that year he was appointed major-general. He served in the operations against the Indians in 1891 and in Cuba and the Philippines in 1898. He was commander of the coast defenses of eastern New York from 1911 to 1914 and of the coast defenses of Panama and the Panama Canal Department from 1914 to 1917. From September , 1917, to May 28, 1919, he was commander of the 80th Division of the National Army. He saw service on the western front at St. Mihiel and in the Meuse-Argonne. He held the rank of major-general during this period.
CRONSTADT or maritime fortress of Russia, about 20 KRONSTADT, a miles W. of Petrograd , in the narrowest part of the est part of the gulf of Finland, opof the Neva, on a long, narrow, rocky island, forming, both by its position and the strength of its fortifications, the bulwark of the capital, and being also the most important naval station of the empire . It was founded by Peter the Great in 1710, and has spacious regular streets with many handsome houses and churches, very large marine establishments , a naval arsenal, a cannon-foundry , building yard, docks, etc. The harbor consists of three separate basins a merchant haven, capable of containing 1,000 ships; a central of ships of war; and the war haven, all of which are defortifications. Cronstadt used to be the commercial port of Petrograd. It was here in 1917 that the revolt of the Russian fleet began. A Committee of Workers and Soldiers Delegates Delegates assumed power in June of provisional government at Petrograd ernment at Petrograd. Preparations to with the fall of Kerensky. Cronstadt then became a naval base for the Soviet government.