Monmouth College, Monmouth, Illinois, 1997.

* Dr. Mauri Ditzler, President, Monmouth College

It is the home of Monmouth College and contains Monmouth Park, Harmon Park, North Park, Warfield Park, West Park, South Park, Garwood Park, Buster White Park and the Citizens Lake & Campground.

Monmouth College, a private liberal arts college affiliated with the Presbyterian Church ( U. S. A .), was founded in Monmouth in 1853 by Cedar Creek & South Henderson Presbyterian Church's.

* Brookdale Community College, the community college of Monmouth County

Middletown also hosts two public magnet schools, High Technology High School, on the property of Brookdale Community College, located in the Lincroft section of town, and the Marine Academy of Science and Technology located on Sandy Hook, which are part of the Monmouth County Vocational School District.

The district also provides students with the opportunities to attend other high schools, including the Monmouth County Vocational School District Academies which include: the Marine Academy of Science and Technology ( MAST ) located on Sandy Hook, High Technology High School located on the campus of Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, the Academy of Allied Health & Science in Neptune Township and affiliated with the Jersey Shore University Medical Center, the Communications High School located on the property of Wall High School, and Biotechnology High School located in Freehold Township.

In 1882, ownership was transferred to the State of Oregon and it was renamed Oregon State Normal School at Monmouth, and later the Oregon College of Education.

* Religious history of Monmouth from Northwest College of the Bible

Linfield College, also in McMinnville, is the closest four-year college with Western Oregon University in Monmouth, Willamette University in Salem, and George Fox University in Newberg all located in the surrounding areas.

Monmouth College is a four-year coeducational private liberal arts college located in Monmouth, Illinois, United States.

Monmouth College was founded on April 18, 1853 by the Second Presbytery of Illinois, a frontier arm of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church.

Founded as " Monmouth Academy ," the school became Monmouth College after receiving a charter from the state legislature on September 3, 1856.

Kappa Kappa Gamma, founded in 1870, is another national sorority founded at Monmouth College.

Monmouth College Football Field at dusk

Monmouth College is a member of the Midwest Conference and the National Collegiate Athletic Association NCAA Division III.

" Fighting Scots " is a Registered Trademark of Monmouth College.

This is the first national team trophy that a Monmouth College sports team has won.

Monmouth began its college football rivalry with Knox College in Galesburg in 1888, making it the sixth oldest college football rivalry in the country.

Monmouth has been in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament in 1996, 2001, 2004, and 2006.

The Monmouth Men's Soccer team is the only sport on campus to ever advance to the 2nd round of the NCAA Tournament.

* In Red Bank, New Jersey, the Count Basie Theatre, a property on Monmouth Street redeveloped for live performances, and Count Basie Field were named in his honor.

Nine Army National Guard units ( 101st Eng Bn, 101st FA, 113th Inf 116 Inf, 125th QM Co, 175th Inf, 181st Inf, 198th Sig Bn and 211 MP Bn ) and one active Regular Army Field Artillery battalion ( 1-5th FA ) are derived from American units that participated in the Battle of Monmouth.

Entering the Signal School at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, in July 1934, he completed the Communications Officers ' Course the following June and was assigned as communications instructor at the Air Corps Technical School, at Chanute Field, Illinois.

The Monmouth College football team has appeared in the NCAA Playoffs in 2005 and 2008.

The Lion Inn has won CAMRA awards for its real ales, the inn has activities including an annual beer festival, a cider and perry festival, the entering of a team in the Monmouth raft race and a Burns Night celebration.

In the 2006 NCAA Tournament, Wright's experienced team earned a # 1 seed for the first time in school history and posted victories over Monmouth in the first round and Arizona in the second.

She was a four-year starting varsity lacrosse player at both schools, a multiple Northeast Conference All-Conference and Academic Honor Roll selection, and captain of the team in her senior year at Monmouth.

He began coaching at Monmouth College in 1964, leading all three major team sports ( football, basketball and baseball ) at one point.

The Premier Girls Basketball team has produced many national representatives, the most prominent of which is Chevannah Palvaast who is currently playing for Monmouth University in the United States on a scholarship.

* June 11 – Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland, lands at Lyme Regis with an invasion force brought from the Netherlands to challenge his uncle, James II, for the Crown of England.

The abilities and position of his father brought him to the attention of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth.

On 14 February 1663, at the age of 14, shortly after having been brought to England, James was created Duke of Monmouth with the subsidiary titles of Earl of Doncaster and Baron Scott of Tynedale, all three in the Peerage of England, and on 28 March 1663 he was appointed a Knight of the Garter.

In 1674 Monmouth became Chancellor of Cambridge University and Master of the Horse and King Charles II directed that all military orders should be brought first to Monmouth for examination so giving him effective command of the forces ; his responsibilities included the movement of troops and the suppression of riots.

Geoffrey of Monmouth says he was brought up at the court of Augustus and willingly paid tribute to Rome.

Hall ( 1802 – 1867, after whom " Big Ben " is said to have been named, as he was Commissioner of Works in 1855 when it was built ), was for some years Member of Parliament for Monmouth, but transferred to a London seat just prior to the Newport Rising which brought with it a turbulent time in Monmouthshire.

Hickes, who was a member of Monmouth's defeated army, brought with him Richard Nelthorpe, another supporter of Monmouth and under sentence of outlawry.

Pegram also enjoyed success by winning the 2 million Breeders ' Cup Sprint at Monmouth Park in 2007 with Midnight Lute, whom trainer Bob Baffert stated was the best horse he'd ever brought to the Breeder's Cup.

Since the sandy soils of the New Jersey Pine Barrens were not suitable for cultivating exotic plants, 5, 000 cartloads of fine loam were brought to Georgian Court from neighboring Monmouth County.

Jones was born at Newland, Gloucestershire and brought up in Monmouth, leaving to make a sizeable fortune as a London merchant engaged in the cloth trade with the continent.

The Monmouthshire Show ( formerly the Monmouth Show ) has been held each year, traditionally on the last Thursday of August, since 1919, though its history can be traced back to 1857.

After the Battle of Monmouth, the British retreat from Freehold Township, New Jersey carried them down King's Highway in Middletown to their embarkation points at Sandy Hook in the bay, heading back to new York City.

According to legend, a portrait was painted of Monmouth after his execution: the tradition states that it was realised after the execution that there was no official portrait of the Duke — so his body was exhumed, the head stitched back on the body, and it was sat for its portrait to be painted.

As far back as Geoffrey of Monmouth, the Arthurian Battle of Mons Badonicus ( c. 500 ) has been suggested to have taken place near Aquae Sulis.

The rebels got as far as Trowbridge, but royalist forces cut off the route and Monmouth turned back towards Somerset through Shepton Mallet, arriving in Wells on 1 July.

Eventually Monmouth was pushed back to the Somerset Levels, where Alfred the Great had found refuge in his conflicts with the Vikings.

Not incidentally, the castle has a long association with the Arthurian legends, going back to the 12th century when Geoffrey of Monmouth in his mythical account of British history, the Historia Regum Britanniae described Tintagel as the place of Arthur's conception.

He wrote to the Duke of Monmouth, telling him that he should return from exile, and on 27 November 1679 Monmouth rode back into London amidst scenes of widespread celebration.

With the accession in 1685 of James II Shrewsbury was appointed a captain in order to defeat the Monmouth rebellion, although he resigned his commission in 1687 after refusing to bow to pressure from James to convert back to the Catholic faith.

In May 1894, the Township Committee at Eatontown, New Jersey ordered the seizure and sale of the Monmouth Park Association's grandstand and other property for the payment of back taxes and on May 7 was sold at a public auction.

Ketch stood back, regarding his botched handiwork, and dealt another blow, then another, as Monmouth writhed, screamed, and moaned.

The following campaigning season, his corps was involved in the battle to drive Gen. Howe back to New York City, and played a critical role in the Battle of Monmouth.

Decades later, during the exclusion crisis, Henry was looked back on as a kind of ' lost leader '; as what might have been a legitimate, warlike, Protestant alternative to the equally unpalatable choices of the Dukes of York ( later James II ) and Monmouth ( James Scott ).

The Dutch recaptured the crescent fortification soon afterwards, and when the Duke of Monmouth rallied his troops to a second assault, they were driven back once more, and Comte d ' Artagnan was killed.

Flower Alley, under his Travers Stakes jockey John Velazquez ( who skipped his Saturday Belmont mounts to ride the four-year-old ), came back to the races as the favorite to win the Grade III $ 150, 000 Salvator Mile Handicap at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, New Jersey, on June 24, 2006.

Colonel Stone was back in active command by the Battle of Monmouth.