claim: The Siege of Fort Stanwix took place in Nebraska.
evidence: Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky -LRB- -LSB- ˈbrɒdski -RSB- Иосиф Александрович Бродскии , -LSB- ɪˈosʲɪf ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪtɕ ˈbrotskʲɪj -RSB- ; 24 May 1940 -- 28 January 1996 -RRB- was a Russian and American poet and essayist .. Russian. Russian language. American. Americans. Born in Leningrad in 1940 , Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled -LRB- `` strongly advised '' to emigrate -RRB- from the Soviet Union in 1972 , settling in the United States with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters .. Leningrad. Saint Petersburg. Soviet Union. Soviet Union. United States. United States. W. H. Auden. W. H. Auden. He taught thereafter at Mount Holyoke College , and at universities including Yale , Columbia , Cambridge and Michigan .. Mount Holyoke College. Mount Holyoke College. Yale. Yale University. Columbia. Columbia University. Cambridge. University of Cambridge. Michigan. University of Michigan. Brodsky was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature `` for an all-embracing authorship , imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity '' .. Nobel Prize in Literature. Nobel Prize in Literature. He was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 1991 .. United States. United States. United States Poet Laureate. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress