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William Coddington, who was running the colony, felt constrained to move seven miles south where, with others -- as mentioned above -- he founded Newport.
King William Street, Adelaide | King William Street, named in honour of King William IV, looking south from North Terrace, Adelaide | North Terrace in 2006 before the extension of the tram line.
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.
When the railway opened to Fort William on 7 August 1894, the station was given prime position at the south end of the town.
Owing to the difficult terrain in the area, the line from Glasgow, to the south, enters from the northeast and trains from Glasgow to Mallaig, the terminus of the line, have to reverse at Fort William railway station.
On 8 July, Auchinleck ordered the new XXX Corps commander — Lieutenant-General William Ramsden — to capture the low ridges at Tel el Eisa and Tel el Makh Khad and then to push mobile battle groups south toward Deir el Shein and raiding parties west toward the airfields at El Daba.
However, XIII Corps commander — Lieutenant-General William Gott — rejected this and ordered the attack but on a centre line south of the original plan which he incorrectly believed was mine-free.
234 bypass, ten miles ( 16 km ) south of Manassas, by the year 1997, and is now known as the Prince William Campus.
Accompanied by William de Roches, his seneschal in Anjou, he swung his mercenary army rapidly south to protect her.
In September 1797, Coleridge lived in Stowey in the south west of England and spent much of his time walking through the nearby Quantock Hills with his fellow poet William Wordsworth and Wordsworth's sister Dorothy ; ( His route today is memorialized as the " Coleridge Way ".
Adventurers like John Lok and William Towerson sailed south in an attempt to develop links with the coast of Africa.
* 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.
* Evergreen Cemetery – Located on the south side of town, there are over 50, 000 people interred ; it is the home of the infamous tall " Jesus with cowboy boots " statue and grave marker, as well as the resting place of banker / philanthropist William J. McDonald, Confederate General / U. S. Senator Sam Bell Maxey, rancher Pitts Chisum, and cotton magnate John J. Culbertson.
The biggest of these was Friedrichstadt, just south west of the historic core of Berlin, begun in 1688 and named after new Elector Frederick William III, who later became King Frederick I of Prussia.
In 1803, William Jessop opened the Surrey Iron Railway in south London, arguably the world's first horse-drawn public railway.
In the extreme south of the Lizard was the royal manor of Winnianton which was held by King William I at the time of Domesday Book ( 1086 ) and was also the head manor of the hundred of Kerrier.
The English author Thomas Hardy used a fictionalised Wessex as a setting for many of his novels, adopting his friend William Barnes ' term Wessex for their home county of Dorset and its neighbouring counties in the south and west of England.
Edwin and Morcar submitted, but William continued on to York, building castles at York and Nottingham before returning south.
All the English counties south of the River Tees and River Ribble are included, and the whole work seems to have been mostly completed by 1 August 1086, when the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that William received the results and that all the chief magnates swore the Salisbury Oath, a renewal of their oaths of allegiance.
* February 19 – Captain William Smith in British merchant brig Williams sights Williams Point, the northeast extremity of Livingston Island in the South Shetlands, the first land discovered south of latitude 60 ° S.
William of St. Carilef was made Bishop of Durham, and was also given the powers of Earl for the region south of the rivers Tyne and Derwent, which became the County Palatine of Durham.
* May 20 – First Barons ' War in England: Occupying French forces are defeated at the Battle of Lincoln by English royal troops led by William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke and survivors forced to flee south.
* Failed amendments to the Wilmot Proviso by William W. Wick and then Stephen Douglas extending the Missouri Compromise line ( 36 ° 30 ' parallel north ) west to the Pacific ( south of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California ), allowing the possibility of slavery in most of present day New Mexico and Arizona, and Southern California.

south and Conqueror
Three days after the battle, on 28 September, the Normans under William the Conqueror landed on the south coast of England.
In 1066 one of these men, Duke William II of Normandy ( William the Conqueror ), mounted an invasion to conquer the rich Anglo-Saxon kingdom of England, pushing on into south Wales and northern England in the coming years.
In 1069 William the Conqueror dammed the River Foss just south of York Castle, close to its confluence with the Ouse, in order to create a moat around the castle.
William the Conqueror created his Nova Forest in 1079, a vast hunting area lying south and west of his capital at Winchester ; it stretched south to the coast at Barton on Sea and west to what is now Bournemouth.
William the Conqueror then introduced this form of castle into England when he invaded in 1066, and the design spread through south Wales as the Normans expanded up the valleys during the subsequent decades.
It was built by Robert Curthose, eldest son of William I ( William the Conqueror ), having returned south from a campaign against Malcolm III of Scotland.
The vigorous resistance of Northumbria to William the Conqueror was punished by ruthless harrying, mostly south of the River Tees.
Heralding the beginning of the Norman Conquest, the Battle of Hastings in 1066, when William the Conqueror faced King Harold on the south coast, was one of the bloodiest and most important battles ever fought on British soil.

south and advanced
Once the abolition of slavery in the rebel states became a military objective, as Union armies advanced south, more slaves were liberated until all three million of them in Confederate territory were freed.
The two advanced south to face Ragnall, and this led to a battle somewhere on the banks of the River Tyne, probably at Corbridge where Dere Street crosses the river.
By August, Philip had taken Normandy and advanced south to occupy Anjou and Poitou as well.
In the south, after successful Russo-Turkish Wars against the Ottoman Empire, Catherine advanced Russia's boundary to the Black Sea, defeating the Crimean Khanate.
During that period Christian kingdoms gradually took control over the Iberian Peninsula from Muslim kingdoms and with the fall of the Granadian emirate, the entire Iberian Peninsula was brought under Christian rule, while native Mozarabic Christian practices held for centuries in Muslim-ruled territory were first suppressed as early as 1080, by Alfonso VI of Castile, as Roman-rite Christian kingdoms advanced south.
From bridgeheads in Stralsund ( 1628 ) and Pomerania ( 1630 ), the Swedish army advanced to the south of the Holy Roman Empire, and in a side theater of the war deprived Denmark – Norway of Danish Estonia, Jämtland, Gotland, Halland, Härjedalen, Idre and Särna, became exempted from the Sound Dues, and established claims to Bremen-Verden, all of which was formalized in the Treaty of Brömsebro ( 1645 ).
François by this time had advanced due east to form a line to the south of the Russians between Niedenburg and Willenburg, directly in their line of retreat.
He was supported to the north by the 24th British Division of I Corps, which advanced north of the Souchez river and by the advancing XVII Corps to the south.
William himself then advanced with his own army and marched into several cities in the south, including Roermond and Leuven.
It seems that part of Cassius ’ s army had advanced south: when these men tried to come back they were easily repulsed by Antony.
In May 1781, the French troops of General Marquis de Lafayette, known as the Coloniels, advanced south from Richmond and deployed artillery on the heights overlooking Petersburg from across the Appomattox River.
Recently, Vincennes University announced plans to build an advanced manufacturing education facility just south of Fort Branch along U. S. 41 to provide such education to an area becoming more diverse in manufacturing methods.
advanced south from Ratisbon and deployed against Davout's exposed left flank.
During Hyder Ali's absence from the Carnatic, the British recovered many places that Hyder Ali had taken and only weakly garrisoned, and advanced as far south as Dindigul.
In the meantime the Bulgarian army has started to disintegrate: beset by defeat in the hands of Greeks and Serbs, they were suddenly faced with a surprising Turkish counterattack with fresh Asian troops finally ready, while the Romanians advanced south, demanding Southern Dobrudja as a compensation to the overreaching Bulgarians.
Morgoth's Orcs took the mountain forts on Mount Rerir, and defiled Lake Helevorn, then advanced south through Thargelion and into East Beleriand over the fords of the river Gelion.
In the south 11th Army and the Romanians ( commanded by Manstein following the death of Schobert ) advanced along the Sea of Azov coast towards Rostov.
The Middle American Research Institute was established in 1925 at Tulane " for the purpose of advanced research into the history ( both Indian and colonial ), archaeology, tropical botany ( both economic and medical ), the natural resources and products, of the countries facing New Orleans across the waters to the south ; to gather, index and disseminate data thereupon ; and to aid in the upbuilding of the best commercial and friendly relations between these Trans-Caribbean peoples and the United States.
Reaching the Rhine 9 March, the 2ID advanced south to take Breisig, 10 – 11 March, and to guard the Remagen bridge, 12 March – 20 March.
The next year, the Manchu armies led by Dodo advanced south and conquered Yangzhou and Nanjing while the Ming leader defending Yangzhou, Shi Kefa, was killed.
By 12: 00, hundreds of militia cadets from Matanzas had secured Palpite, and cautiously advanced on foot south towards Playa Larga, suffering many casualties during attacks by FAL B-26s.
After York was killed at the Battle of Wakefield, the large army which Margaret had gathered advanced south.
On 13 November, Edward marched further south via Dundalk where, incredibly, " some gave them the right hand " ( a fight ), occupied Nobber on the 30th, and advanced to Kells, where he was met by Mortimer.
Slim's men then advanced south towards the Burmese capital.

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