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As the Port of Boston was a major source of supplies for the citizens of Massachusetts, sympathetic colonies as far away as South Carolina sent relief supplies to the settlers of Massachusetts Bay.
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Adams convinced Gerry to reenter politics after the Boston Port Act closed that city's port, and Marblehead became a port to which relief supplies could be delivered.
He chaired a town meeting that passed a resolution opposing the Boston Port Act.
* 1774 – American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
* March 31 – Intolerable Acts: The British Parliament passes the Boston Port Act, closing the port of Boston, Massachusetts as punishment for the Boston Tea Party.
The Massachusetts Port Authority ( Massport ) operates the Port of Boston, which includes a container shipping facility in South Boston, and Logan International Airport in East Boston.
Benjamin Franklin had put forth the idea of such a meeting the year before but was unable to convince the colonies of its necessity until the British placed a blockade at the Port of Boston in response to the Boston Tea Party in 1773.
Bridgetown, the capital, was one of the three largest cities in British America ( the other two were Boston, Massachusetts and Port Royal, Jamaica.
Major urban design projects by Ricardo Bofill-Taller de Arquitectura include Place de l ’ Europe ( Luxembourg ), Nova Karlin ( Prague ), Port Praski ( Warsaw ), New Castellana ( Madrid ), Tarragona ’ s new seafront, Nova Bocana ( Barcelona ), Puerto Triana ( Seville ), Central Artery ( Boston ) and the remodelling of Kobe in Japan.
In doing so it forms the southern and eastern border of Proper Bay and Boston Bay, creating the large sheltered deep water port where Port Lincoln is based.
Much of the natural area surrounding New Boston is part of the Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge.
Its villages include Ewen, Inkerman, Old Boston, Port Blanchard, Port Griffith, and Sebastopol.
His entry into politics came in 1837 with his appointment by Martin Van Buren as Collector of Customs of the Port of Boston.
* Port of Boston
Feelings about him rapidly deteriorated as he began to implement the various acts, including the Boston Port Act, which put many people out of work, and the Massachusetts Government Act, which formally dissolved the provincial assembly.
** Boston Port Act ( March 31 )
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Port Jervis, basking in the foothills, was the city of God.
She is vacationing at the Kennedy summer home in Hyannis Port, Mass., and in his welcoming remarks, the President said he was representing her.
Barges are also used for very heavy or bulky items ; a typical barge measures 195 by 35 feet ( 59. 4 m × 10. 6 m ), and can carry up to 1, 500 tons catalytic cracking unit reactor was shipped by barge from the Tulsa Port of Catoosa in Oklahoma to a refinery in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
The boomerang was first encountered by western people at Farm Cove ( Port Jackson ), Australia, in December 1804 where its use as a weapon was witnessed during a tribal skirmish:
In 1822 it was described in detail and recorded as a " bou-mar-rang ", in the language of the Turuwal people ( a sub-group of the Dharug ) of the Georges River near Port Jackson.
By the late 1950s, the once-prosperous port area of downtown Manhattan was occupied by a number of dilapidated shipping piers, casualties of the rise of container shipping which drove sea traffic to Port Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Historically, this proceeded from the labours of Jean de Launoy ( 1603 – 1678 ), " le dénicheur des saints ", and Louis Sébastien le Nain de Tillemont, who had shown the falsity of numerous lives of the saints ; while theologically it was produced by the Port Royal school, which led men to dwell more on communion with God as contrasted with the invocation of the saints.
The 43rd Marine Infantry Battalion of the French Army's Troupes de Marine (: fr: 43e bataillon d ' infanterie de marine ) was based in Port Bouet adjacent to the Abidjan Airport from 1979 and had more than 500 troops assigned until 2011, when it appears to have been disbanded.
It was later joined in the suit by the Port Authority of New York.
In 1613, Virginian raiders captured Port Royale, and in 1621 Acadia was ceded to Scotland's Sir William Alexander who renamed it Nova Scotia.
By 1632, Acadia was returned from Scotland to France under the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and the Port Royale settlement was moved to the site of nearby present-day Annapolis Royal.
This was in addition to the appropriate honorary dignity, which was due by virtue of being the Senior Bishop of the main Metropolis of the Province, Alexandria, which also the Capital and the main Port of the Province.
The town was home to the civil engineer and calculating prodigy George Parker Bidder ( 1806 – 1878 ), who is notable for his work on railways over much of the world, as well as the docks of the East End in the Port of London.
Government troops joined forces with the rebels and the railway to the Treaty Port of Tientsin was interrupted.
* An agreement concerning the use of the Port of Djibouti and the transit of cargo, was signed in Djibouti between the two countries on 13 April 2002, and ratified by the Ethiopian Federal Parliamentary Assembly on 4 June of the same year.
A protocol concerning Ethiopian access to Port Sudan was signed between the two countries 5 March 2000 in Khartoum, and this protocol and its subsequent amendment were ratified by the Ethiopian Federal Parliamentary Assembly on 3 July 2003.
In October her body was brought from Kyūshū by sea to Port Naniwa-zu ( today Osaka city ); and her state funeral was held in early November.
The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, which was an amendment to the larger and unrelated SAFE Port Act, included " carve out " language that clarified the legality of fantasy sports.
John Byron, who was unaware of the French presence in the east, explored Saunders Island, in the west, named the harbour Port Egmont, and claimed this and other islands for Britain on the grounds of prior discovery.
In December 1978 he was appointed as a coach at Port Vale, being demoted to reserve coach in October 1978 as the team struggled, before being dismissed in 1979.
A person buried at the Maritime Archaic site at Port au Choix, Newfoundland, dating to about 2000 BC, was found surrounded by more than 200 Great Auk beaks, which are believed to have been part of a suit made from their skins, with the heads left attached as decoration.
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The torpedo boat destroyer's first major use in combat came during the Japanese surprise attack on the Russian fleet anchored in Port Arthur at the opening of the Russo-Japanese War on 8 February 1904.
Since German reunification in 1990, and the accession of some Central European and Baltic States into the European Union in 2004, the Port of Hamburg has restarted ambitions for regaining its position as the region's largest deep-sea port for container shipping and its major commercial and trading centre.
Other major South Asian ports include Chittagong in Bangladesh, Colombo, Hambantota and Galle in Sri Lanka, Kolkata, Visakhapatnam, Paradip Port, Chennai, Ennore, Tuticorin, and Nagapattinam in India, and Karachi in Pakistan.
The country has two major rail lines: one connects Lagos on the Bight of Benin and Nguru in the northern state of Yobe ; the other connects Port Harcourt in the Niger Delta and Maiduguri in the northeastern state of Borno.
* 1960 – The land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was established by an Act of Congress after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Great Swamp into a major regional airport for jet aircraft.
Rabaul, the capital of the Territory was overwhelmed on 22 – 23 January and was established as a major Japanese base from whence they landed on mainland New Guinea and advanced towards Port Moresby and Australia.
A considerable urban drift towards Port Moresby and other major centers has occurred in recent years.
The capital, Port Moresby, is not linked by road to any of the other major towns and many highland villages can only be reached by light aircraft or on foot.
In major cities, there may be a separate police agency for public transit systems, such as the New York City Port Authority Police or the MTA police, or for major government functions, such as sanitation, or environmental functions.
In terms of sea travel, there are two major ports in Réunion: Le Port and Pointe des Galets.
The Bay also continues to serve as a major international shipping port, served by a large container facility operated by the Port of Oakland, and two smaller facilities in Richmond and San Francisco.
The major is the Port of Koper, built in 1957.
Complementing this infrastructure was Port Sudan, a major deep-water port on the Red Sea, and a small but modern national merchant marine.
Massachusetts militia made repeated attempts to capture the Capital Port Royal, Acadia, but it required a major naval expedition authorized by Queen Anne to achieve the Conquest of Acadia in 1710.
The JDF also operates a major naval base at Port Royal.
* June 7 – An earthquake and related tsunami destroy Port Royal, capital of Jamaica and submerges a major part of it – an estimated 2, 000 are immediately killed, 2, 300 injured, and a probable additional 2, 000 die from the diseases which ravage the island in the following months.
As of 2011, the Port of Durres is undergoing major renovations.
The Port Authority also has plans to buy 340 new PATH cars and begin major expansion of Stewart International Airport.
While he continued some work from the Board of Trade — for example, legislation to establish a Port of London authority and to pursue traditional Liberal programmes such as licensing law reforms — his first major trial in this role was over the 1908 – 1909 Naval Estimates.
The Seine is a major axis for maritime cargo links in the Port of Rouen.
The first major shipment of CONEXes, containing engineering supplies and spare parts, was made by rail from the Columbus General Depot in Georgia to the Port of San Francisco, then by ship to Yokohama, Japan, and then to Korea, in late 1952 ; shipment times were almost halved.
As a result the Port of San Francisco virtually ceased to function as a major commercial port, but the neighboring port of Oakland emerged as the second largest on the West Coast of America.
The two Port Royal convents thus became major strongholds of Jansenism.
*** Port of Savannah, major U. S. seaport
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