In the introduction the author notes that a " Terrible Revenge " is a popularized version of his longer monograph " Nemesis at Potsdam " ( 1-3 editions Routledge, 6th edition Picton Press, Rockland, Maine 2003 ).

A notable resident was Cesar Picton, an African enslaved at the age of six, who lived as a servant ( though evidently a very favoured one ) at Norbiton Place for nearly thirty years from 1761, before becoming a highly successful coal-merchant in Kingston.

Most of the park is over 600 metres above sea level, with altitudes ranging from 160 m at the Picton River to 1, 255 m at Hartz Peak.

At one end of the spectrum owners and architects have had to deal with the practical challenges of repairing smaller decaying castles used as private houses, such as that at Picton Castle where damp proved a considerable problem.

The main large port is Picton on the mainland, at the head of Queen Charlotte Sound.

At this point, the North Island is at its closest to the South Island, and the inter-island road, rail, and passenger ferry service between Picton and Wellington travels through the sounds.

* Sir Thomas Picton, a British army general, was born in Haverfordwest and killed at the battle of Waterloo.

* Picture Frame Seduction, one of the pioneers of early hardcore punk rock in the UK, formed in the town at the local Sir Thomas Picton School in 1978.

On 26 November, the squadron set sail for Cape Horn, which was reached on 1 December, then anchored at Picton Island, where they stayed for three days distributing coal from a captured British collier, Drummuir, and hunting.

) Fullarton commenced a series of open enquiries on allegations against Picton and reported his unfavourable views on Picton's past actions at length to meetings of the commission.

In December 1803 he was arrested by order of the Privy Council and promptly released on bail set at £ 40, 000 ( Picton was able to give surety for half of this ; two West Indies plantation owners covered the remainder ).

Shortly after this, however, at Busaco, Picton found and used his first great opportunity for distinction.

According to Picton, the enemy responded by pummeling the 3rd with 40 to 50 cannon and a counter-attack on their right flank ( which was still open because they had captured the bridge so quickly ) causing the 3rd to lose 1, 800 men ( over one third of all Allied losses at the battle ) as they held their ground.

Picton Monument at Carmarthen

When Napoleon returned from Elba, Picton, at Wellington's request, accepted a high command in the Anglo-Dutch army.

* The Picton, a boys boarding house at Wellington College, Crowthorne, UK which is an English co-educational public school founded by Queen Victoria and Prime Minister The Earl of Derby in 1859 as the national monument to Britain's greatest military figure, the Duke of Wellington.

* Sir Thomas Picton at the Classic Encyclopedia, based on the 1911 Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica

Governor Lachlan Macquarie ordered the construction of a road, which became known as the Great South Road ( the basis of the northern end of the Hume Highway ) in 1819 from Picton to the Goulburn Plains and he travelled to Goulburn in 1820, but it is unlikely that even a primitive road was finished at that time.

She was nearly broken up in 1990, but is now preserved at Picton, New Zealand

In 1952 ground-launched testing started at the Picton Range, a small test site set up outside Picton, Ontario near the RCAF base at Trenton, Ontario.

In Lieutenant-general Sir Thomas Picton, his majesty has sustained the loss of an officer who has frequently distinguished himself in his service ; and he fell, gloriously leading his division to a charge with bayonets, by which one of the most serious attacks made by the enemy of our position was defeated.

Add to this the volume of traffic which uses the channel ( including several crossings daily of the inter-island ferries to Picton ), and it is not surprising that the reef has a lengthy roll-call of shipwrecks.

Today Battersby has only one railway line, but it still takes the shape of a " Y " junction, with trains pulling into a station that is now effectively a terminus-the old line towards Picton continues on through the station and disappears round a bend before it ends.

In recent years, the TSB has concluded a number of high profile investigations, including Air France ( A05H0002 ), the Cheakamus River ( R05V0141 ), the Queen of the North ( M06W0052 ), Picton Castle ( M06F0024 ), the Burnaby pipeline rupture ( P07H0040 ), Cougar Helicopters ( A09A0016 ) and the Concordia ( M10F003 ).

Since the build-up to the second Iraq War in 2002 Kennard has sometimes been working with printer Cat Picton Phillips.

Every year Picton has a show on the third Saturday in July.

Long distance passenger services are limited to three routes – the TranzAlpine ( Christchurch – Greymouth ), the TranzCoastal ( Christchurch – Picton ) and the Overlander ( Wellington – Auckland ).

Regular roll-on roll-off ferry services link the North and South Islands between Wellington and Picton, since 1962.

Regular ferry services run between Picton in the Sounds and Wellington.

On the break-up of the division the officers presented Picton with a valuable service of plate, and on 24 June 1814 he received for the seventh time the thanks of the House of Commons for his great services.

Shuttle services operate between St Arnaud, Nelson, Blenheim and Picton.

Since 1945, passenger services have connected Rangiora with Christchurch and Picton ; initially, this service was provided by Vulcan railcars up until 1978, when they were replaced by locomotive-hauled trains.

Queen Charlotte Sound defines its western side, while to the south lies Tory Channel, which is on the sea route from Wellington in the North Island to Picton.

Attention is now drawn to Wellington ( Plummer ), who attends the Duchess of Richmond's ball, where Picton and other generals are present.

* Classic New Zealand Wine Trail-Route through New Zealand's wine-making region, from Napier to Blenheim, via Hastings, Woodville, Masterton, Martinborough, Wellington, and Picton.

Requires a ferry crossing across Cook Strait between Wellington and Picton.

The town is named after Sir Thomas Picton, the Welsh military associate of the Duke of Wellington, who was killed at the Battle of Waterloo.

She included a reference to the port in her short story " The Voyage " ( in the collection The Garden Party ), which is " an account of a trip to Picton from Wellington on the Cook Strait ferry ".

It was created in 1809 by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, as part of the Anglo-Portuguese Army, for service in the Peninsular War, and was known as the Fighting 3rd under Sir Thomas Picton during the Napoleonic Wars.

Prince Edward County includes the population centres of Ameliasburg, Bloomfield, Carrying Place, Cherry Valley, Consecon, Demorestville, Fawcettville, Glenora, Hillier, Lake On The Mountain, Milford, Mountain View, Northport, Picton, Rednersville, Rosehall, Rossmore, Salmon Point, Waupoos, Waupoos Island, Wellington, West Lake, Woodrous, and Yerexville.

The harbour is also used by inter-island ferries, linking Wellington to Picton.

Tory Channel forms a substantial part of the ferry route between Wellington and Picton.

Wellington had six British infantry divisions, the Light under Brigadier General ( BG ) Robert Craufurd, 1st led by Major General ( MG ) Brent Spencer, 2nd commanded by MG Rowland Hill, 3rd under MG Thomas Picton, 4th led by MG Lowry Cole, and 5th under MG James Leith.

Wellington had already ordered Leith to shift his men to the north to assist Picton.

Today now there are only four long-distance routes: the Northern Explorer between Auckland and Wellington, the Capital Connection between Wellington and Palmerston North, the Coastal Pacific between Picton and Christchurch, and the TranzAlpine between Christchurch and Greymouth.

Interisland ferries use Tory Channel and Queen Charlotte Sound on their journeys between Picton and Wellington in the North Island.

Services run daily between Wellington and Picton in the Marlborough region of the South Island.

The town is named for General Sir Thomas Picton, second in command to Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo.

The South Island Main Trunk is now used to carry significant quantities of long-distance freight, and it connects with the North Island via roll-on roll-off ferries between Picton and Wellington.