A fort, named Fort Coligny, was built to protect them from attack from the Portuguese troops and Brazilian Native Americans. |
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True enough, Spain has become a filmset to me, the whole of it barely more real than Fort Bravo itself. |
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Gaur was an example of a man without a BA who seemed infinitely better educated than the fellows who left Fort Hare with glittering degrees. |
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After losing the Battle of Fort Oswego, not only that fort, but others in the Mohawk River valley were abandoned. |
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This was followed in 1757 by the fall of Fort William Henry and the Indian atrocities that followed. |
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On 20 June 1756 the Nawab's troops stormed Fort William capturing the city. |
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In December 1758 a French force of 8,000 under the Comte de Lally descended on Madras, bottling up the 4,000 British defenders in Fort St George. |
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Parts of the fort were subsequently demolished, and what remains has become part of Fort Victoria Country Park. |
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In the 1930s a proposal was made to run a car ferry between Fort Victoria and Keyhaven on the mainland. |
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The Needles Tour also has stops in Alum Bay, Totland, Colwell Bay, Fort Victoria, Yarmouth, and Freshwater Bay. |
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The course has varied slightly with buoys tried at the Needles and a requirement to leave No Man's Land Fort to port. |
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On the seafront lies the Old Fort pub, a drinking spot popular with both residents and summer visitors. |
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No Man's Land Fort, formerly part of the coast defences and now a luxury residence, is visible in the Solent one mile from Seaview. |
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At the same time, Russians colonized Alaska and even founded settlements in California, such as Fort Ross. |
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A major obstacle to his progress was Fort Jesus, housing the garrison of a Portuguese settlement at Mombasa. |
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Apart from Elmina Castle and Fort Coenraadsburg, the main tourist attractions in Elmina include the Dutch Cemetery and the Elmina Java Museum. |
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He constructed the Fort of Santo Tomas, present day Janico, with Captain Pedro Margarit in command of 56 men. |
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He was imprisoned at Fort de Joux, where he died in 1803 of exposure and possibly tuberculosis. |
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Consequently, Villegagnon built Fort Coligny on the island when attempting to establish the France Antarctique colony. |
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His fleet was scattered, and a palace revolt in Kochi hindered his recovery, so he headed to Fort Anjediva. |
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Fort Belgica, one of many forts built by the Dutch East India Company, is one of the largest remaining European forts in Indonesia. |
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The Bait Al Falaj Fort played an important role in Muscat's military history. |
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The Fort of San Diego was built the following year to protect the port and the cargo of arriving ships. |
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In 2010, the center of population of Florida was located between Fort Meade and Frostproof. |
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He arrived at the mouth of the River May on June 22, 1564, sailed up it a few miles, and founded Fort Caroline. |
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The United States government never completed Fort Jefferson after 30 years on Garden Key. |
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Fort Arnott, it was a big week. He was soon to be married and a buck's night was held in his honour. |
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Augustine failed when its ships were hit by a hurricane on their way to the Spanish encampment at Fort Matanzas. |
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Menendez proceeded to massacre the defenceless Huguenots, after which he wiped out the Fort Caroline garrison. |
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There are also branch campuses in Augusta, Farmington, Fort Kent, Machias, and Presque Isle. |
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The George Washington Bridge crosses the river between Fort Lee and the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. |
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Fort Orange was founded on the river north of Wiltwyck, and later became known as Albany. |
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In Manhattan is Fort Tryon Park with the Cloisters, and the World Trade Center. |
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Soon afterwards, the Columbia Fur District of the Hudson's Bay Company and its headquarters at Fort Vancouver were established. |
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Apart from the second Fort Nassau, and the small community that supported it, settlement along the Zuyd Rivier was limited. |
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In 1651, Fort Nassau was dismantled and relocated in an attempt to disrupt trade and reassert control, receiving the name Fort Casimir. |
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Few Dutch settlers to New Netherland made their home at Fort Goede Hoop on the Fresh River. |
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Two main historic sites along the coast were York Factory and Prince of Wales Fort. |
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The ruins of Qashliq, when they were still visible, were also referred to as The Fort of Kuchum by Russians. |
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In 1733, Hertog returned to Jaquim, this time extending the trading post into Fort Zeelandia. |
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In 1712, the British completed the construction of Fort William, located on the east bank of the Hooghly River to protect their trading factory. |
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Holmes is said to have shouted to Lincoln to take cover during the Battle of Fort Stevens, although this is commonly regarded as apocryphal. |
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A number of forts, including Fort Wayne were built in Michigan during the 19th century out of fears of renewed fighting with Britain. |
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The Confederates, led by General James Longstreet, did attack General Burnside's Fort Sanders at Knoxville and lost. |
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In 1614, the Dutch under the command of Hendrick Corstiaensen, rebuilt the French chateau, which they called Fort Nassau. |
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The settlement served mostly as an outpost for trading in fur with the native Lenape tribespeople, but was later replaced by Fort Orange. |
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That year, another Fort Nassau was built on the Delaware River near Gloucester City, New Jersey. |
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On the Connecticut River, Fort Huys de Goede Hoop was completed in 1633 at present day Hartford. |
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By 1655 Fort Christina, sitting in what is today Wilmington, had already been renamed Fort Altena. |
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He survived to ultimately gain control of all of Mewar, excluding the Chittor Fort. |
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However, in August 1856, greased cartridge production was initiated at Fort William, Calcutta, following a British design. |
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A small group of Company officials and their families took refuge in Jhansi Fort, and the Rani negotiated their evacuation. |
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The officer had direct control only over Fort William, but supervised other British East India Company officials in India. |
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The Bom Jesus Cathedral, Fort Aguada and a new wax museum on Indian history, culture and heritage in Old Goa are other tourism destinations. |
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There are many forts in Goa such as Tiracol, Chapora, Corjuem, Aguada, Reis Magos, Nanus, Mormugao, Fort Gaspar Dias and Cabo de Rama. |
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It currently provides daily service from ORH to Fort Lauderdale, and Orlando, Florida. |
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The resulting Siege of Fort Mackinac on July 17 was the first major land engagement of the war, and ended in an easy British victory. |
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A scratch force landed on the island on July 17, 1812, and mounted a gun overlooking Fort Mackinac. |
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In May 1813, Procter and Tecumseh set siege to Fort Meigs in northwestern Ohio. |
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On May 25, 1813 the guns of the American Lake Ontario squadron joined by Fort Niagara began bombarding Fort George. |
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The British also abandoned Fort Erie and headed towards the Burlington Heights. |
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Late in 1813, the Americans abandoned the Canadian territory they occupied around Fort George. |
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General Phineas Riall rushed towards the frontier and unaware of Fort Erie's fall or the size of the American force chose to engage in battle. |
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This included construction of a new fort protecting the approaches to Saint Helier, Fort Isabella Bellissima, or Elizabeth Castle. |
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Virginia voted to secede from the United States on April 17, 1861, after the Battle of Fort Sumter and Abraham Lincoln's call for volunteers. |
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The major factories became the walled forts of Fort William in Bengal, Fort St George in Madras, and Bombay Castle. |
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In the Surinamese Capital of Paramaribo, the Dutch Fort Zeelandia still stands today. |
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Another prominent example of Dutch colonial architecture is Fort Rotterdam in Makassar. |
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Nassau, the capital of The Bahamas, is named after Fort Nassau, which was renamed in 1695 in his honour. |
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With the surrender of Fort Amsterdam in 1664, England gained control of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, renaming it New York. |
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Parker hastily organized his defences and placed Nelson in command of Fort Charles, which covered the approaches to Kingston. |
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Bristol was occupied by Royalist military, after they overran Royal Fort, the last Parliamentarian stronghold in the city. |
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Around this time a Tudor defensive boom stretched from the Round Tower to Fort Blockhouse in Gosport, as a protection to Portsmouth Harbour. |
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He continued to spend most of his time at Fort Belvedere in the Great Park, where he had lived whilst Prince of Wales. |
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In Woolwich in February 1792, he married Anne Reid, whom he had met while stationed at Fort Howe in Saint John. |
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In 1999, he featured on the celebrity special in the second season of Fort Boyard. |
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Larger, but not large, settlements existed around royal forts, such as at Burghead Fort, or associated with religious foundations. |
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Later that month Mackay constructed Fort William on the site of an old fort built by Cromwell. |
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Similar orders must have been received by the Highland units at Fort Augustus. |
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On 17 May three battalions of regulars and eight Highland companies reoccupied Fort Augustus. |
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In total, over 20,000 head of livestock, sheep, and goats were driven off and sold at Fort Augustus, where the soldiers split the profits. |
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Many were held on hulks on the Thames or in Tilbury Fort, and executions took place in Carlisle, York and Kennington Common. |
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Washington retreated, and Howe returned to Manhattan and captured Fort Washington in mid November, taking about 3,000 prisoners. |
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The Germans took Fort Douaumont and then reinforcements halted the German advance by 28 February. |
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It fell to 19th Indian Division on 20 March, though the Japanese held the former citadel which the British called Fort Dufferin for another week. |
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A coastal battery at Easington, Fort Goodwin or Kilnsea Battery, faced the Bull Sands Fort. |
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This tells the story of the funding, building and operating of the Ben Nevis Observatory in Fort William, Scotland. |
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The Ben Nevis Distillery is a single malt whisky distillery at the foot of the mountain, located by Victoria Bridge to the north of Fort William. |
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Rail services to and from the coast, including links to Oban and Fort William, are frequent, with city terminals in Glasgow and Edinburgh. |
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The fort was renamed James Fort and the town Jamestown, in honour of the Duke of York and heir apparent, later King James II of England. |
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The military history of the island has left a number of fortifications, including Castle Cornet, Fort Grey. |
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They fought in the Battle of New Orleans and later helped capture Fort Bowyer in Mobile Bay in what was the last action of the war. |
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Peaceful British attempts to halt this fort construction were unsuccessful, and the French proceeded to build the fort they named Fort Duquesne. |
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The French retaliated by attacking Washington's army at Fort Necessity on 3 July 1754 and forced Washington to surrender. |
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The British had suffered further defeats in North America, particularly at Fort William Henry. |
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Fort Niagara and Fort Carillon on 8 July 1758 fell to sizable British forces, cutting off French frontier forts further west. |
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As consequence of the war the Valdivian Fort System, a Spanish defensive complex in southern Chile, was updated and reinforced from 1764 onwards. |
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Also in Queens, the park includes a significant portion of the western Rockaway Peninsula, most notably Jacob Riis Park and Fort Tilden. |
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Scottie tails Madeleine to Fort Point and, when she leaps into the bay, he rescues her. |
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During this same period, Russian ships also explored along the California coast and in 1812 established a trading post at Fort Ross. |
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The Russian settlements associated with Fort Ross were spread over an area stretching from Point Arena to Tomales Bay. |
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In the Severan period the area was also under Roman occupation, based on the Legionary fortress of Carpow Roman Fort downstream from Perth. |
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In 1727 the government built the first Fort George here, but in 1746 it surrendered to the Jacobites and they blew it up. |
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The best preserved but also one of the smallest forts is Rough Castle Fort. |
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On 17 March, the expedition reached Fort San Juan and laid siege, capturing it on 29 April. |
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The town of Fort William is the main urban centre and Lochaber was a distinct Province of Scotland in its own right. |
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The old jetty at the Fort George Point is the location of the Dolphin Research Centre, with leading marine biologist Prof. |
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Loch Ness has one island, Cherry Island, at the southwestern end of the loch, near Fort Augustus. |
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As many as 130 landowners turned up to witness the event ranging from Sir John of Combo to Sir William Murray of Fort. |
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The West Highland Line links Mallaig railway station by rail to Fort William, Oban and Glasgow. |
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In the summer the Jacobite steam train service from Fort William visits Mallaig. |
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In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in 1812 in the Battle of Fort Dearborn and later rebuilt. |
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The GGNRA also administers Fort Funston, Lands End, Fort Mason, and Alcatraz. |
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Notable examples in the town were Fort Hubberstone in Gelliswick and Scoveston Fort to the north east of the town. |
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In 1867, the construction of the Palmerston Fort on St Catherine's Island began. |
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As a result, Fishguard Fort was completed in 1781, overlooking Lower Fishguard. |
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For basic training, Louis was assigned to a segregated cavalry unit based in Fort Riley, Kansas. |
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Other artificial Danish islands include a number of marine fortresses off Copenhagen, such as Middelgrundsfortet, Trekroner Fort and Flakfortet. |
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Fort Nieulay, located along the Avenue Roger Salengro originally dated to the 12th or 13th century. |
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In April and May 1677, Louis XIV and Vauban visited Calais and ordered a complete rebuilding of Fort Nieulay. |
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One of which on HM Fort Roughs is now occupied by the controversial Principality of Sealand. |
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The archives of the city, at the Fort of Tourneville, possesses documents from the 16th to the 20th centuries. |
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Similar memorial obelisks stand at Cap Blanc Nez on the French channel coast, and at Fort Hamilton, overlooking New York harbour. |
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The French garrison of Fort Nieulay, outside the western ramparts surrendered after a bombardment. |
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French marines in Fort Lapin and the coastal artillery emplacements spiked the guns and retreated. |
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The expedition resulted in the construction of Fort Caroline, the first French colony in the New World. |
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The result was star shaped fortifications with tier upon tier of hornworks and bastions, of which Fort Bourtange is an excellent example. |
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A swimming beach known as Sandways lies a short walk out of the village across the rocks towards Fort Picklecombe. |
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In 1902 Upton Fort, was built north of Weymouth at Osmington to defend Weymouth and the approaches to Portland harbour. |
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During that same year Blacknor Fort, situated on the western cliffs of Portland, was completed. |
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The inner breakwater, with its jetty, former victualling store and Inner Pierhead Fort, are Grade II Listed. |
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One of the most dominant of the defence structures is the Portland Breakwater Fort, located on one of the outer breakwaters. |
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At the Breakwater Fort is a World War II 29 millimetre spigot mortar emplacement, a pillbox, and a battery observation post. |
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Williams, which was carrying supplies from Fort Smith to Fort Gibson along the Arkansas River on July 16, 1863 demonstrated this. |
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They are enrolled in the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation. |
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In honor of their hosts, the expedition dubbed the settlement they constructed Fort Mandan. |
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Army deliberately spread smallpox to Mandan Indians at Fort Clark in 1837, using infected blankets. |
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Out on Fort Street, a pavement princess was sitting on the sidewalk with her back to a lamppost and her legs stretched out. |
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Shortly after, the Civil War began when Confederate forces attacked the US Army's Fort Sumter. |
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When the southern forces attacked a US Army installation at Fort Sumter, the American Civil War began and four additional slave states seceded. |
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Others went to refugee camps such as the Grand Contraband Camp near Fort Monroe or fled to northern cities. |
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Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces fired upon Fort Sumter. |
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The attack on Fort Sumter rallied the North to the defense of American nationalism. |
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Fort Gibraltar was renamed Fort Garry in 1822 and became the leading post in the region for the Hudson's Bay Company. |
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The work done at Bouldnor is exhibited in the Maritime Archaeology Trust's Sunken Secrets exhibition at Fort Victoria on the Isle of Wight. |
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The French responded in force from Fort Duquesne, and in July Washington was forced to surrender at the Battle of Fort Necessity. |
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Small timber churches are suggested at Lincoln and Silchester and baptismal fonts have been found at Icklingham and the Saxon Shore Fort at Richborough. |
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In 1832, artist George Catlin visited the Mandan near Fort Clark. |
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Following these defeats, Jauhar was committed thrice by many of the wives and children of the Rajput soldiers who died in battles at Chittorgarh Fort. |
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Reconstructions of these lodges may be seen at Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park near Mandan, North Dakota, and the Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site. |
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Locks on Caledonian Canal in Fort Augustus, Loch Ness in the background. |
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During the English Civil War in the 1640s the city was occupied by Royalists, who built the Royal Fort House on the site of an earlier Parliamentarian stronghold. |
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These include Worcester, Somerset West, Fort Beaufort and Beaufort West. |
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After a week of street fighting, the British reached the Red Fort. |
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Sheil Buses operate a bus service from Mallaig to Fort William. |
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Their main route went from Glasgow down the Firth of Clyde through the Crinan Canal to Oban and Fort William, and on through the Caledonian Canal to Inverness. |
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Political unrest caused the Dutch to abandon their trading post at Ouidah in 1725, and they then moved to Jaquim, at which place they built Fort Zeelandia. |
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Pakistan's cultural capital, Lahore, contains many examples of Mughal architecture such as Badshahi Masjid, Shalimar Gardens, Tomb of Jahangir and the Lahore Fort. |
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In March 1646, the colony decided to build a fourth frontier fort, Fort Henry, at the falls of the Appomattox, where the modern city of Petersburg is located. |
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After the arrival of the Order of Saint John in 1530, the knights settled in Birgu, where part of Fort St Angelo was used as a palace for the Grand Master. |
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Notable historic sites in Cumbria include Carlisle Castle, Furness Abbey, Hardknott Roman Fort, Brough Castle and Hadrian's Wall, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. |
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Both sides stood their ground, but after the battle, the American commander, General Jacob Brown, pulled back to Fort George while the British did not pursue them. |
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The land was used in the 18th century as a gun battery, and its eastern edge was the site of the Royalist fort constructed by Charles I known as Pill Fort. |
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He was ordained in 1850 and was the first First Nations priest and became the missionary at Fort Cumberland on the Saskatchewan River and then to the post of The Pas. |
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I was made aware of my own tendency to pedestalize while talking with Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, during a Unity Forum in Fort Lauderdale. |
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The Jacobite army then turned north, losing men and failing to take Stirling Castle or Fort William but taking Fort Augustus and Fort George in Inverness by early April. |
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In one of these states, Florida, just a single seafood company in Fort Lauderdale was reported in 2008 as buying about 5,000 pounds of softshell turtles a week. |
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On May 27, 1813, an American amphibious force from Lake Ontario assaulted Fort George on the northern end of the Niagara River and captured it without serious losses. |
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The other two are located at the Tollygunge Club and at Fort William. |
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Archaeologist Luther Cressman dated material from Fort Rock to 13,200 years ago, and there is evidence supporting inhabitants in the region at least 15,000 years ago. |
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In early March 1776, heavy cannons that the Patriots had captured at Fort Ticonderoga were brought to Boston by Colonel Henry Knox, and placed on Dorchester Heights. |
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Arnold fell back to Fort Ticonderoga, where the invasion had begun. |
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In May 1755 Braddock's column blundered into an enemy force composed of French and Native Americans at the Battle of the Monongahela near Fort Duquesne. |
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Burgoyne set off in June, and recaptured Fort Ticonderoga in early July. |
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Thousands of Creeks, Chickasaws, and Choctaws fought in or near major battles such as the Battle of Fort Charlotte, the Battle of Mobile, and the Siege of Pensacola. |
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Following the closure of Cabaret Electric which was located in the Espace Oscar Niemeyer in 2011 a new auditorium, Le Tetris, is under construction at the Fort of Tourneville. |
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Capturing Fort Capuzzo and Bardia in passing, it then advanced into Egypt, and by the end of April had taken Sollum and the tactically important Halfaya Pass. |
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In the maritime theatre, the British were successful in the Battle of Fort Beausejour and in their campaign to remove the French military threat from Acadia. |
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The organization by the association of West Park Festival since the 2000s in Harfleur and since 2004 at the Fort of Tourneville is a demonstration. |
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A Ming army and navy led by Koxinga defeated a western power, the Dutch East India Company, at the Siege of Fort Zeelandia, the first time China had defeated a western power. |
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The Americans' renewed attack on the Niagara peninsula quickly captured Fort Erie on July 3, 1814 with the 170 garrison quickly surrendering to the 5, 000 Americans. |
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Within days, the surrounding tribes united and rampaged the countryside, in a unique move, forcing settlers who escaped to find safety at Fort Amsterdam. |
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Acapulco's most historic building is the Fort of San Diego, located east of the main square and originally built in 1616 to protect the city from pirate attacks. |
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It was protected by an artillery land battery called Fort San Miguel. |
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Wolfe observed the mainland from Ile d'Aix and he noted a battery of guns at Fort Fouras on the mainland, which guarded the mouth of the River Charente. |
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In the 1930s and 1940s, some fortifications were built with designs taking into consideration the new threat of aerial warfare, for example Fort Campbell in Malta. |
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Wolfe advocated an immediate assault on Fort Fouras, and also a diversionary raid in the direction of nearby La Rochelle to confuse the French about the true intentions. |
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On the end of the inner breakwater the Inner Pierhead Fort was built, and on the outer breakwater the circular Portland Breakwater Fort, also known as Chequered Fort. |
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Fort Buchanan has about 4,000 military and civilian personnel. |
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The British commander General Francis de Rottenberg did not have the strength to retake Fort George, so he build a blockade, hoping to starve the Americans into surrender. |
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Today the fort is part of Fort Victoria Country Park which occupies 20 hectares of woodland and shore on the northwest coast of the Isle of Wight. |
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Today Fort Hamilton serves as the headquarters of the North Atlantic Division of the United States Army Corps of Engineers and for the New York City Recruiting Battalion. |
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After completing eight weeks of basic training at Fort Ord, California, he was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division and stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. |
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The Halfway House, a tavern also known as Taillon's International Hotel, straddles the border between Dundee, Quebec, and Fort Covington, New York. |
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Fort Loudoun became the westernmost British outpost to that date. |
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Procter had a handsome half-breed girl with him and two splendid elk heads and meat on his packhorses that he was taking to Fort Lincoln for sale. |
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At the western end of Freshwater Bay on a bluff are the remains of Fort Redoubt, also known as Fort Freshwater or Freshwater Redoubt, a Palmerston Fort. |
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They would also be involved in major political events, as when Louis Riel seized International at Fort Garry, or Gabriel Dumont was engaged by Northcote at Batoche. |
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Buses operate from the bus station around the town of Inverness and to Inverness Airport and to places as far afield as Fort William, Ullapool, Thurso and Aberdeen. |
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The United States Army took command of the Castillo de San Marcos and renamed it Fort Marion after General Francis Marion, who fought in the American Revolutionary War. |
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The several hundred settlers were centered around the capital of Fort Christina, at the location of what is today the city of Wilmington, Delaware. |
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After a plan to assault the city was rejected, in early March 1776, the Americans fortified Dorchester Heights with heavy artillery captured from a raid on Fort Ticonderoga. |
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Burgoyne's pursuit ran into stiff resistance at Hubbardton and Fort Anne. |
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The Niagara Falls International Marathon includes one international border crossing, via the Peace Bridge from Buffalo, New York, United States to Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada. |
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Despite suffering a reversal at Hobkirk's Hill on April 25, American troops continued to dislodge strategic British posts in the area, capturing Fort Watson, and Fort Motte. |
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Thousands of Creeks, Chickasaws, and Choctaws fought in major battles such as the Battle of Fort Charlotte, the Battle of Mobile, and the Siege of Pensacola. |
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