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Fort William lies near the head of Loch Linnhe, one of Scotland's longest sea lochs, beside the mouth of the rivers Nevis and Lochy.
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* 1812 – War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army.
Standing at above sea level, it is located at the western end of the Grampian Mountains in the Lochaber area of the Scottish Highlands, close to the town of Fort William.
* Ben Nevis Webcam at Fort William Online
While he volunteered for militia service in 1757 in response to French movements resulting in the Siege of Fort William Henry, his unit received word while en route that the fort had fallen, and turned back.
Afterward, the commander of the fort wrote to the commandant of Fort Laramie in southeast Wyoming, Colonel William O. Collins, suggesting that a site several miles farther down the river would make a good location for the fort.
Fort William ( ( ən ˈkʲɛrəs ̪ t ̪ ən ), " The Garrison ") is the second largest settlement in the highlands of Scotland and the largest town: only the city of Inverness is larger.
Fort William is a major tourist centre with Glen Coe just to the south, Aonach Mòr to the north and Glenfinnan to the west, on the Road to the Isles.
It is the start / end of both the West Highland Way ( Milngavie / Fort William ) and the Great Glen Way ; a walk / cycle way ( Fort William / Inverness ).
Fort William from Loch Linnhe.
The fort was named " Fort William "' after William of Orange, and the settlement that grew around it was called " Maryburgh ", after his wife.
This settlement was later renamed " Gordonsburgh ", and then " Duncansburgh " before being renamed " Fort William ", this time after Prince William, Duke of Cumberland ; known to some Scots as " Butcher Cumberland ".
During the Second World War, Fort William was the home of HMS St Christopher which was a training base for Royal Navy Coastal Forces.
Fort William is the northern end of the West Highland Way, a long distance route which runs 95 miles through the Scottish Highlands to Milngavie, on the outskirts of Glasgow, and the start / end point of the Great Glen Way, which runs between Fort William and Inverness.
On 2 June 2006, a fire destroyed McTavish's Restaurant in Fort William High Street along with the two shops which were part of the building.
Fort William viewed from Corpach
When the railway opened to Fort William on 7 August 1894, the station was given prime position at the south end of the town.
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Near Padstow, a Roman site of some importance now lies buried under the sands on the opposite side of the Camel estuary near St. Enodoc's Church, and may have been a western coastal equivalent of a Saxon Shore Fort.
The town of Gulf Shores lies just outside of the bay, on the Fort Morgan peninsula.
The fort, a subpost of Fort Dade on adjacent Egmont Key ( which lies in the mouth of Tampa Bay ) was equipped with artillery and mortar batteries.
The location of Fort Mayo, now marked by a Virginia state historic marker, lies within present-day Patrick County.
" Historic Fort Griffin, established in 1867, lies within Shackelford County.
The lowest point in the county lies 10 feet above sea level near Fort Mifflin in Southwest Philadelphia at the convergence of the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers.
Over 74 percent of the county's land area lies within the Fort Peck Indian Reservation.
The site of Fort Dale lies on the north of the city near the Fort Dale Cemetery, along what is now Alabama Highway 185.
Also, in nearby Fort Payne, which lies across the valley and at the foot of next-door Lookout Mountain, there is a historical sign marking the town as one of the starting points for the Trail of Tears, and also the area where Sequoyah lived, who developed the Cherokee alphabet.
Though population remained steady throughout the 20th century, Wellington experienced moderate growth in the 1990s and 2000s, rendering it a sort of bedroom community for the city of Fort Collins, which lies 10 miles to the South.
It lies within the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, just west of the city of Pocatello.
Ashland lies along what was once a military road from Fort Dodge ( now Dodge City, Kansas ) to the north and Fort Supply in the Indian Territory to the south.
Just south of Palmers Island, beginning near Fort Phoenix in Fairhaven, lies a two-mile-long hurricane barrier, constructed in the 1960s to protect the inner harbor where the fishing fleet anchors.
Ecclefechan lies at the foot of the large Roman Fort, Burnswark, which dominates the horizon with its flat top.
The town is situated along State Route 333 ( Miser Station Road ) and stretches from Fort Loudoun Lake in the north to U. S. Route 321 ( Lamar Alexander Parkway ) to the south and lies at an elevation of 879 feet.
To the northwest of Clarksville lies the Fort Campbell Military Reservation, home of the 101st Airborne Division.
No colleges or universities are present in this small community, but the town lies within driving distance to Arlington and the rest of the Dallas / Fort Worth metropolitan area, which contains a number of colleges and universities including the University of Texas at Arlington and the Tarrant County College system.
Ecclefechan lies at the foot of a large Roman Fort, Burnswark, whose flat top dominates the horizon.
A small hospital-currently empty-with emergency services at Fort William 16 miles away, lies at the southern end of the village just over an arched stone bridge.
Coppell occupies the northwest corner of Dallas County and lies in proximity to Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport.
To the south of Brixham, and sheltering the southern side of its harbour, lies the coastal headland of Berry Head with a lighthouse, Iron Age Fort and National Nature Reserve.
To the south of the Royal Enclosure lies a ring-fort known as Ráith Laoghaire ( Laoghaire's Fort ), where the eponymous king is said to have been buried in an upright position.
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As the time drew near for the drawing of the British-American frontier by terms of the agreement of 1818, the company suspected that the Pembina colony -- its own post and Fort Daer -- was on American territory.
Fort Toulouse, on the Alabama River, had been erected in 1714 for trade with the Alabamas and Choctaws, but money was available for only one other new post, near the present Nashville, Tennessee, and this was soon abandoned.
This situation led finally to an " inconclusive " duel between Pike and Roane on July 29, 1847 near Fort Smith, Arkansas.
The North West Company's Fort Nez Percés was established near the Snake River junction several years later.
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center, located at Fort Gordon near Augusta, Georgia, was named in his honor.
In August 1689, a French fleet appeared near the coast of Ceylon compelling the Governor of Pulicat Lawrence Pitt who was on high seas to seek protection within the bastions of Fort St George.
* 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory.
The Caledonian Canal connects the Scottish east coast at Inverness with the west coast at Corpach near Fort William.
Movies filmed in or near Fort William include Being Human, Braveheart, Highlander, Restless Natives, Harry Potter and Rob Roy.
The TV series Rockface was filmed mainly around Fort William and some scenes of Monarch of the Glen were filmed around Lochaber although mostly near Newtonmore.
A second settlement was established on the north coast in 1504 called Puerto Real near modern Fort Liberte-which in 1578 was relocated to a nearby site and renamed Bayaha.
* 1740 – A combined force Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins ' Ear.
* 1814 – War of 1812: Battle of Lundy's Lane – reinforcements arrive near Niagara Falls for General Riall's British and Canadian forces and a bloody, all-night battle with Jacob Brown's Americans commences at 18. 00 ; the Americans retreat to Fort Erie.
* 1942 – World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the United States mainland.
* 1806 – Pike expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west.
He attended the last mountain man rendezvous, held in the summer of 1840 ( again at Ft. Bridger near the Green River ) and moved on to Bent's Fort, finding employment as a hunter.
In the winter of 1804 – 05, the party built Fort Mandan, near present-day Washburn, North Dakota.
The United States adapted the former Spanish facility at Fort Bellefontaine as a fur trading post near St. Louis in 1804 for business with the Sauk and Fox.
Some new reservoirs for hydroelectric schemes have been given names faithful to the names for natural bodies of water-for example: the Loch Sloy scheme, and Lochs Laggan and Treig ( which form part of the Lochaber hydroelectric scheme near Fort William ).
He built Fort Orleans in 1723 as a trading post near present-day Brunswick, Missouri.
* 1729 – Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
The town of Nashville was founded by James Robertson, John Donelson, and a party of Overmountain Men in 1779, near the original Cumberland settlement of Fort Nashborough.
Originally displayed within a temple, the stele was probably moved during the early Christian or medieval period and eventually used as building material in the construction of Fort Julien near the town of Rashid ( Rosetta ) in the Nile Delta.
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