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.

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.

* Picton Memorial, Carmarthen ( 1827-8 ) demolished 1846

* Sir Thomas Picton – Carmarthen, Wales

Monument to Johnston at Shiloh National Military Park.

Doubleday photo displayed at Fort Sumter National Monument in Charleston, South Carolina | Charleston harbor

Alexander III Monument at KinghornTowards the end of Alexander's reign, the death of all three of his children within a few years made the question of the succession one of pressing importance.

Monument to Holocaust survivors at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem ; the quote is Ezekiel 37: 14.

In 1983, the Eisenhower Monument was unveiled at West Point.

Monument to Holocaust survivors at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.

The Four Freedoms Monument was created in 1941, and was dedicated at Madison Square Garden in New York in 1943.

Monument to Bacon at his burial place, St. Michael's Church, St. Albans | St Michael's Church in St Albans

Tribal flags at Meeting Place Monument / Flag Plaza at Oklahoma State Capitol

Modern scholarship locates the speakers ' platform 40 yards ( or more ) away from the Traditional Site within Soldiers ' National Cemetery at the Soldiers ' National Monument and entirely within private, adjacent Evergreen Cemetery.

Civic Buildings: Former Arsenal and Archives of the City of Genève, Former Crédit Lyonnais, Former Hôtel Buisson, Former Hôtel du Résident de France et Bibliothèque de la Société de lecture de Genève, Former école des arts industriels, Archives d ' État de Genève ( Annexe ), Bâtiment des forces motrices, Library de Genève, Library juive de Genève « Gérard Nordmann », Cabinet des estampes, Centre d ' Iconographie genevoise, Collège Calvin, Ecole Geisendorf, Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève ( HUG ), Hôtel de Ville et tour Baudet, Immeuble Clarté at Rue Saint-Laurent 2 and 4, Immeubles House Rotonde at Rue Charles-Giron 11 – 19, Immeubles at Rue Beauregard 2, 4, 6, 8, Immeubles at Rue de la Corraterie 10 – 26, Immeubles at Rue des Granges 2 – 6, Immeuble at Rue des Granges 8, Immeubles at Rue des Granges 10 and 12, Immeuble at Rue des Granges 14, Immeuble and Former Armory at Rue des Granges 16, Immeubles at Rue Pierre Fatio 7 and 9, House de Saussure at Rue de la Cité 24, House Des arts du Grütli at Rue du Général-Dufour 16, House Royale et les deux immeubles à côté at Quai Gustave Ador 44 – 50, Tavel House at Rue du Puits-St-Pierre 6, Turrettini House at Rue de l ' Hôtel-de-Ville 8 and 10, Brunswick Monument, Palais de Justice, Palais de l ' Athénée, Palais des Nations with library and archives of the SDN and ONU, Palais Eynard et Archives de la ville de Genève, Palais Wilson, Parc des Bastions avec Mur des Réformateurs, Place Neuve et Monument du Général Dufour, Pont de la Machine, Pont sur l ' Arve, Poste du Mont-Blanc, Quai du Mont-Blanc, Quai et Hôtel des Bergues, Quai Général Guisan and English Gardens, Quai Gustave-Ador and Jet d ' eau, Télévision Suisse Romande, university of Geneva, Victoria Hall

However in 1966, less than four months after coming third in the constituency of Carmarthen, Gwynfor Evans sensationally captured the seat from Labour at a by-election.

A poem found in the Black Book of Carmarthen refers to Bendigeidfran's death in Ireland, claiming that Gwyn ap Nudd was present at the battle, either as a warrior or in his traditional role as a psychopomp.

However, this left a large area as a Diocese to govern, and St David's began to deteriorate as the centre of the diocese, being nowhere near the centre – the Bishop ’ s residence had been at Carmarthen since the 16th century, but administration and the focus moved from the Cathedral to the Diocese ’ s now largest town.

The scores of Iron Age and Roman coinage and artefact discoveries, and excavations by the Dyfed Archaeological Trust under the direction of Heather James at Carmarthen ( Maridunum ) in the 1980s point convincingly to significant Roman penetration to this westernmost part of Wales.

In 1992 aerial photography identified a Roman road running west of Carmarthen past Wiston to Poyston Cross, raising the possibility of Roman fortlets at strategic river crossings at Whitland and Haverfordwest.

A member of the Whig Kit-Kat Club, Steele remained in Carmarthen after Mary's death, and was buried there, at St Peter's Church.

He broke the land speed record for the first time in 1924 at at Pendine Sands near Carmarthen Bay in a 350HP V12 Sunbeam, now on display at the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu.

Herbert imprisoned him at Carmarthen Castle in South Wales, where he died of the plague on 3 November 1456, and was buried at Carmarthen Grey Friars.

In May 1714, Wotton was forced to abandon his rectory at Milton Keynes in order to avoid his creditors, and for seven years he lived at Carmarthen in south-west Wales under the assumed name of Dr. William Edwards.

Whilst at Carmarthen, Wotton reformed his character and returned to his studies.

Whilst at Carmarthen he also conducted surveys of the cathedrals of St David's and Llandaff which were published by his friend Browne Willis in 1717 and 1718.

A public monument was erected to his memory in St Paul's Cathedral, by order of parliament, and in 1823 another was erected at Carmarthen by subscription, the king contributing a hundred guineas.

The chief seat of the rulers of Deheubarth and its traditional capital was at Dinefwr ( although Carmarthen and Cardigan also served as the kingdom's capital for certain periods ).

At Carmarthen the A40 forms the eastern Carmarthen bypass as a dual carriageway, and meets up with the A48 at Pensarn.

At Carmarthen, the road " takes over " the main thoroughfare from the Motorway Network to Ireland from the A48 which ends at Carmarthen.