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Torrington and ended
Passenger service north of Waterbury, to Torrington and Winsted, ended in December 1958, and the line was abandoned between Torrington and Winsted in 1963.
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Torrington and battle
* 1646 Battle of Torrington, Devon the last major battle of the first English Civil War.
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English admiral Torrington who had advised against engaging the superior French fleet but had been overruled by Queen Mary and her ministers was court-martialled for his performance during the battle.
Torrington realised that not to give battle was to be guilty of direct disobedience ; to give battle was, in his judgment, to incur serious risk of defeat.
The following day, 10 July, off Beachy Head near Eastbourne Torrington advanced towards the French in line of battle.
Torrington proposed avoiding a set battle, except under very favorable conditions, until the arrival of reinforcements.

Torrington and late
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Torrington and afternoon
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Torrington and taking
The stories that Torrington was not a popular commander, because of his reputation of being a drunk and his habit of taking several prostitutes with him to sea, are in fact untrue.
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Torrington and wind
It had four main syndicated programmes: a weekday mid-morning programme hosted by Phillippa Collins ( this show was only carried on a few stations, when taken over by Global radio the show was rolled out to all stations ) a weeknightly music and showbiz based programme ( formerly called ' Core Control ' and then ' Music Control ') ( weekdays 7pm to 10pm ) presented by Kam and Sally, Kam was replaced by Kevin Hughes, ' Late Night Love ' ( Sunday to Thursday 10pm to 1am ) presented by Graham Torrington ( later the show was replaced by ' the wind down ' presented by Cat James ) and Music On Demand ( 1am till Breakfast, 7 days a week ) presented by Dan Wood or Andy Henley.

Torrington and ;
1967 Comprehensively planned urban communities-transformation of ' Back-o-Wall ' slum to Tivoli Garden, a modern, fully, planned urban development ; Hellshire Hills development ; Portmore Town centre, Torrington Park )
The main Allied fleet under Admiral Torrington was stationed in the English Channel ; a substantial part of the fleet was in the Mediterranean under Vice Admiral Henry Killigrew, which the Earl of Nottingham, William's Secretary of State and chosen naval advisor, hoped would neutralize the French Toulon squadron.
However, the French decided not to use their fleet as a subsidiary to the Irish campaign ; King Louis XIV instead directed his navy against Torrington in the Channel.
Carmarthen thought that it was advisable to fight ; as did Nottingham and Admiral Russell, who were unconvinced that the French were as strong as Torrington reported, and considered that only the admiral's pessimism, defeatism or treachery could account for his reports.
Torrington himself was in the centre red squadron ; the rear blue squadron, commanded by Vice-Admiral Ralph Delaval, comprised both English and Dutch ships.
Nevertheless, Torrington burnt seven more badly-damaged Dutch ships and one English ship to avoid capture before gaining the refuge of the Thames ; as soon as he was in the safety of the river, he ordered all the navigation buoys removed, making any attempt to follow him too dangerous.
Torrington was temporarily replaced by a triumvirate of Sir Henry Killigrew, John Ashby and Sir Richard Haddock ; these were in turn replaced by Admiral Russell as sole commander of the English fleet.
WWUH's programming can also be heard on WAPJ, 89. 9 in Torrington, Connecticut ; WDJW, 89. 7 in Somers, Connecticut ; and WWEB, 89. 9 in Wallingford, Connecticut and on the web at wwuh. org.
The largest of the areas, centered around Torrington, Connecticut, had a population in excess of 180, 000 in 2000 ; Torrington's population in that year's census was only 35, 202.
The Tarka Trail cycle track ( also part of the South West Coast Path ), which follows the course of the rail line from Barnstaple to Torrington, passes over Fremington Pill via the old London and South Western Railway iron bridge ( railway line closed 1982 ; dismantled 1987 ) at Fremington Quay on the old Barnstaple to Torrington railtrack bed.
The main towns within the constituency are now Bideford, Great Torrington, Holsworthy and Tavistock ; the constituency also includes the island of Lundy.
Municipalities in the newspaper's coverage area include Waterbury, Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Bethlehem, Bridgewater, Canaan, Cheshire, Colebrook, Cornwall, Derby, Goshen, Harwinton, Kent, Litchfield, Middlebury, Morris, Naugatuck, New Hartford, New Milford, North Canaan, Oxford, Plymouth, Prospect, Roxbury, Seymour, Sharon, Southbury, Thomaston, Torrington, Warren, Washington, Winchester, Watertown, Woodbury, and Wolcott ; smaller non-incorporated areas include Bantam, Gaylordsville, Oakville, Terryville, Union City, Waterville, and Winsted.

Torrington and while
The regular daily milk train was from Torrington, but milk trains from all over the West Country would stop at Clapham Junction in the evening, and reduce their length by half so that they did not block Vauxhall station while unloading.
Following graduation from law school, the Hathaways moved to Torrington, Wyoming, where Mrs. Hathaway taught mainly English at Torrington Junior High School while Hathaway established a law practice.

Torrington and ships
* HMS Torrington, the name of four ships of the Royal Navy
Torrington sailed from the Nore already convinced the French would be stronger much of the Royal Navy had been diverted to protect their maritime commerce from privateers, and the Allied fleet now only had 56 English and Dutch ships of the line, totalling 4, 153 guns, to Tourville's fleet of 4, 600 guns.
On 5 July, Torrington sighted the French fleet, calculating their strength at almost 80 ships of the line.
Nottingham accused Torrington of treachery, informing William on 13 July " In plain terms ... Torrington deserted the Dutch so shamefully that the whole squadron had been lost if some of our ships had not rescued them.

Torrington and French
)-Williamite War in Ireland: Battle of Bantry Bay between the English Royal Navy under the Earl of Torrington and the French fleet under the Marquis de Châteaurenault.
Great Torrington is twinned with the French port town of Roscoff, situated in northern Brittany.
Unable to proceed to the westward to link up with Shovell and Killigrew ( who was on his way home ), Torrington announced his intention of retreating before the superior French fleet to the Straits of Dover, believing the loss of the ' fleet in being ' would strategically be too great.
When Torrington brought the remainder of the red squadron into action, he found difficulty in getting close enough because of the sag in the French line, and came no closer than twice gunshot range.
The term was first used in 1690 when Lord Torrington, commander of the Royal Navy forces in the English Channel, found himself facing a stronger French fleet.
* The Battle of Beachy Head ( 1690 ), during the War of the Grand Alliance, was fought between an Anglo-Dutch fleet under the Earl of Torrington and a French fleet under the Comte Anne Hilarion de Tourville.

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