It was at Monmouth that the tactics and training from Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben developed at Valley Forge during the winter encampment were first implemented on a large scale.

South of the Raritan River the Monmouth tract was developed primarily by Quakers from Long Island.

The " moon bounce " technique was developed by the United States Military in the years after World War II, with the first successful reception of echoes off the Moon being carried out at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey on January 10, 1946 by John H. DeWitt as part of Project Diana.

The Henry Hudson Trail was the first rail-trail developed in Monmouth County,

Monmouth is now primarily a centre for service industries and tourism, and its good road communications have encouraged commuting to larger centres in the West Midlands, South Wales, and Bristol.

Route 35 is a state highway in the U. S. state of New Jersey, primarily traveling through the easternmost parts of Middlesex, Monmouth, and Ocean counties.

Monmouth later became a tourist centre at the heart of the Wye Valley, as well as a market town.

Chapter 28 of the 1535 Act of Henry VIII, which provided that Monmouth, as county town, should return one burgess to Parliament, further stated that other ancient Monmouthshire boroughs were to contribute towards the payment of the member.

Monmouth ( ; Welsh: Trefynwy meaning " town on the Monnow ") is a traditional county town in southeast Wales.

Excavations undertaken by the Monmouth Archaeological Society on sites along Monnow Street have uncovered a wealth of information about the early history of the town.

The only evidence of continuing settlement at Monmouth is a record of a 7th century church, at an unknown location within the town, dedicated to the Welsh saint Cadoc.

A town grew up around it, and a Benedictine priory was established around 1075 by Withenoc, a Breton who became lord of Monmouth after Roger, the son of William fitzOsbern, was disgraced.

From the 14th century onwards, the town became noted for the production of woollen Monmouth caps.

However, as a border town, its prosperity suffered after nearby areas, including Usk and Grosmont, were devastated through attacks by supporters of Owain Glyndŵr around 1405, though Monmouth itself did not come under attack.

A new shire was created covering the area west of Gloucestershire and Herefordshire, and Monmouth became its county town.

In 1605, James I granted Monmouth a town charter by letters patent.

Monmouth castle was slighted after the wars ended, but the town itself grew in prosperity.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Monmouth had close links with the Rolls family, who built a mansion at The Hendre just outside the town.

Monmouth remained a relatively sedate and quiet small town for most of the 20th century ; its passenger rail services ended in 1959, but its road connections greatly improved with the new A40 bypassing the town in 1966, and later connecting the town to the motorway system.

The other station at Monmouth was Monmouth May Hill on the Ross and Monmouth Railway, built on the opposite bank of the River Wye to the town centre.

Monmouth had a mayor and burgesses in mediaeval times, and the town gained its first charter, from Henry VI, in 1447.

In 1974 that Corporation was abolished, and the town became part of the much larger Monmouth District ( becoming Monmouth Borough in 1988 ), which until 1996 formed one of the five districts of Gwent.

The town has remained part of the Monmouth constituency in subsequent elections, although the constituency boundary has changed several times.

In elections for the Welsh Assembly, the town is part of the Monmouth constituency ; the current AM is Nick Ramsay ( Conservative ).

Ecclesiastically, until 1836 the town of Monmouth fell within the diocese of Hereford, rather than that of Llandaff.

The wool industry was important in its early growth, and the town was a centre for the production of the very popular knitted and felted Monmouth caps, from the 15th century onwards.

Monmouth has been established as a tourist centre for some 200 years.

Wells became a trading centre and involved in cloth making before its involvement in both the English Civil War and the Monmouth Rebellion during the 17th century.

Passenger services to Usk and Monmouth ended in 1955, and the line to Neath and Swansea ( which also stopped at a station called Pontypool Clarence Street on the edge of the town centre ) closed in 1964-the latter being the only rail service in the area which actually did fall victim to Dr Beeching.

Caerwent remained an important centre, where the road between Gloucester and Caerleon met the north-south road from Shrewsbury, via Monmouth and Trellech, to the sea at Portskewett.

The second ( far left ) and first ( centre ) Earls of Monmouth with other members of their family.

The 1st Earl of Monmouth ( centre ), posing with members of his family.

Within these divisions, pupils are members of different houses as follows: Wye and Dean Houses, the lower school day houses, which are incorporated under one roof in a building at the south of the campus ; St James House has been recently moved to Chapel house, the lower school boarding house, located off-site nearby in St James Square ; Severn House, the newest of the middle school day houses, located on the ground floor of the middle school house complex at the north of the campus ; Town House ; Monmouth House, one of the original day houses, located below Hereford House in a building which also houses the Classics and Religious Studies departments and is connected to Severn and Town Houses ; Hereford House, another of the original day houses ; Weirhead House, a boarding house, located at the south of the campus ; New House, a boarding house, located next to the administrative buildings in the centre of the campus ; School House, a boarding house, located next to the middle school house complex at the north-east of the complex ; Chapel House, Monmouth, a Grade II * listed building, located offsite on the Hereford Road to the north of the town and Tudor, Glendower and Buchanan Houses, which comprise the sixth form centre and V1. 2 boarding.

These services either terminated at Lydney Town railway station, which was in the centre of Lydney, or continued on northwards into the Forest of Dean to terminate at Lydbrook Junction on the Ross to Monmouth line.

A stout supporter of his lifelong employers, the royal brothers, it is unclear why Holmes should have associated with Monmouth ; at the centre of the question may lie the shady Irish financier Lemuel Kingdon, who sat for Newtown and Yarmouth together with Holmes's brother, John.

View of the school ( centre building ) from Monmouth town centre, River Monnow in foreground

England would not be involved with its rather weak army ; apart from an English brigade in the French army under the Duke of Monmouth its only effort would be made by the Royal Navy: to defeat its Dutch counterpart and ideally blockade the Dutch coast.

Essex followed the lead of Lord Halifax, who advocated not the exclusion of James, but the limitation of his sovereign powers, and looked to the Prince of Orange rather than to the Duke of Monmouth as the leader of Protestantism, incurring thereby the hostility of Lord Shaftesbury, but at the same time gaining the confidence of Charles.

The county council was based in Newport, rather than the historic county town of Monmouth.

Cabal members such as Richard Nelthorpe favoured a rebellion rather than an assassination, aligning much of the West group's discussion with the plans of Algernon Sidney, in particular, and the more aristocratic country party members making up the so-called Monmouth cabal.

Geoffrey of Monmouth includes Constantine in a section of his Historia Regum Britanniae adapted from Gildas, in which the reproved kings are made successors, rather than contemporaries as in De Excidio.

Hence the Monmouth Rebellion when James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth claimed the thrones of England and Scotland on the grounds that his mother had been the wife, rather than a mistress of Charles II.