* There is a General Picton Inn in Porthcawl, a General Picton public house in Picton Place, Nantyffyllon, Maesteg.

The public house sign contains an image of Thomas Picton.

He owned a large amount of land very close to The General Picton public house.

* The Picton is public house on Commercial Road in Newport.

In the introduction the author notes that a " Terrible Revenge " is a popularized version of his longer monograph " Nemesis at Potsdam " ( 1-3 editions Routledge, 6th edition Picton Press, Rockland, Maine 2003 ).

A notable resident was Cesar Picton, an African enslaved at the age of six, who lived as a servant ( though evidently a very favoured one ) at Norbiton Place for nearly thirty years from 1761, before becoming a highly successful coal-merchant in Kingston.

Most of the park is over 600 metres above sea level, with altitudes ranging from 160 m at the Picton River to 1, 255 m at Hartz Peak.

At one end of the spectrum owners and architects have had to deal with the practical challenges of repairing smaller decaying castles used as private houses, such as that at Picton Castle where damp proved a considerable problem.

The main large port is Picton on the mainland, at the head of Queen Charlotte Sound.

At this point, the North Island is at its closest to the South Island, and the inter-island road, rail, and passenger ferry service between Picton and Wellington travels through the sounds.

* Sir Thomas Picton, a British army general, was born in Haverfordwest and killed at the battle of Waterloo.

* Picture Frame Seduction, one of the pioneers of early hardcore punk rock in the UK, formed in the town at the local Sir Thomas Picton School in 1978.

On 26 November, the squadron set sail for Cape Horn, which was reached on 1 December, then anchored at Picton Island, where they stayed for three days distributing coal from a captured British collier, Drummuir, and hunting.

) Fullarton commenced a series of open enquiries on allegations against Picton and reported his unfavourable views on Picton's past actions at length to meetings of the commission.

In December 1803 he was arrested by order of the Privy Council and promptly released on bail set at £ 40, 000 ( Picton was able to give surety for half of this ; two West Indies plantation owners covered the remainder ).

Shortly after this, however, at Busaco, Picton found and used his first great opportunity for distinction.

According to Picton, the enemy responded by pummeling the 3rd with 40 to 50 cannon and a counter-attack on their right flank ( which was still open because they had captured the bridge so quickly ) causing the 3rd to lose 1, 800 men ( over one third of all Allied losses at the battle ) as they held their ground.

Picton Monument at Carmarthen

When Napoleon returned from Elba, Picton, at Wellington's request, accepted a high command in the Anglo-Dutch army.

* Sir Thomas Picton at the Classic Encyclopedia, based on the 1911 Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica

Governor Lachlan Macquarie ordered the construction of a road, which became known as the Great South Road ( the basis of the northern end of the Hume Highway ) in 1819 from Picton to the Goulburn Plains and he travelled to Goulburn in 1820, but it is unlikely that even a primitive road was finished at that time.

She was nearly broken up in 1990, but is now preserved at Picton, New Zealand

In 1952 ground-launched testing started at the Picton Range, a small test site set up outside Picton, Ontario near the RCAF base at Trenton, Ontario.

Queen Charlotte Sound defines its western side, while to the south lies Tory Channel, which is on the sea route from Wellington in the North Island to Picton.

Long distance passenger services are limited to three routes – the TranzAlpine ( Christchurch – Greymouth ), the TranzCoastal ( Christchurch – Picton ) and the Overlander ( Wellington – Auckland ).

Regular roll-on roll-off ferry services link the North and South Islands between Wellington and Picton, since 1962.

Attention is now drawn to Wellington ( Plummer ), who attends the Duchess of Richmond's ball, where Picton and other generals are present.

Regular ferry services run between Picton in the Sounds and Wellington.

* Classic New Zealand Wine Trail-Route through New Zealand's wine-making region, from Napier to Blenheim, via Hastings, Woodville, Masterton, Martinborough, Wellington, and Picton.

Requires a ferry crossing across Cook Strait between Wellington and Picton.

The town is named after Sir Thomas Picton, the Welsh military associate of the Duke of Wellington, who was killed at the Battle of Waterloo.

Picton Airport at nearby Koromiko has regular services to Wellington and charter flights around the Marlborough sounds.

She included a reference to the port in her short story " The Voyage " ( in the collection The Garden Party ), which is " an account of a trip to Picton from Wellington on the Cook Strait ferry ".

It was created in 1809 by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, as part of the Anglo-Portuguese Army, for service in the Peninsular War, and was known as the Fighting 3rd under Sir Thomas Picton during the Napoleonic Wars.

Prince Edward County includes the population centres of Ameliasburg, Bloomfield, Carrying Place, Cherry Valley, Consecon, Demorestville, Fawcettville, Glenora, Hillier, Lake On The Mountain, Milford, Mountain View, Northport, Picton, Rednersville, Rosehall, Rossmore, Salmon Point, Waupoos, Waupoos Island, Wellington, West Lake, Woodrous, and Yerexville.

The harbour is also used by inter-island ferries, linking Wellington to Picton.

Tory Channel forms a substantial part of the ferry route between Wellington and Picton.

Wellington had six British infantry divisions, the Light under Brigadier General ( BG ) Robert Craufurd, 1st led by Major General ( MG ) Brent Spencer, 2nd commanded by MG Rowland Hill, 3rd under MG Thomas Picton, 4th led by MG Lowry Cole, and 5th under MG James Leith.

Wellington had already ordered Leith to shift his men to the north to assist Picton.

Today now there are only four long-distance routes: the Northern Explorer between Auckland and Wellington, the Capital Connection between Wellington and Palmerston North, the Coastal Pacific between Picton and Christchurch, and the TranzAlpine between Christchurch and Greymouth.

Interisland ferries use Tory Channel and Queen Charlotte Sound on their journeys between Picton and Wellington in the North Island.

Services run daily between Wellington and Picton in the Marlborough region of the South Island.

The town is named for General Sir Thomas Picton, second in command to Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo.

The South Island Main Trunk is now used to carry significant quantities of long-distance freight, and it connects with the North Island via roll-on roll-off ferries between Picton and Wellington.