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Fort James (Burrow Island)
Fort James may refer to: Places * Fort James (South Dakota), a historic fort (built in 1865 by soldiers sent to protect settlers) which is on the National Register of Historic Places listings in South Dakota (39HS48) * Fort James (Ghana) in Accra * Fort James (Tobago) * Fort James, Antigua and Barbuda * Fort James, a former fort on Burrow Island in Gosport * Fort James, located on James Island (Gambia) * Fort Amsterdam, New York City, originally named Fort James * Fort Berthold, North Dakota, originally named Fort James, a fur trading post renamed in 1846 * Fort Severn First Nation, originally named Fort James, a fur-trading post built by Hudson's Bay Company in 1689, in Northern Ontario, Canada * James Fort, a Jamestown Rediscovery site, built in 1607 on the site of the British colony later renamed Jamestowne * Fort James, an English fort in Port Royal, Jamaica, that was destroyed in the 1692 Jamaica earthquake, sinking into the sea. * ''Fort James'' (HBC vessel), operated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort James (South Dakota)
Fort James was established in 1865 as a cavalry fort in South Dakota. Established Fort James was built in 1865 in Hanson County, South Dakota.South Dakota State Historical Society https://history.sd.gov/Archives/forms/military/Fort%20James.pdf The fort was located on the James River at its junction with Shell Creek. History The fort was abandoned in 1867. There are reports that the fort was partly burned about two years after it was abandoned. Description Fort James is the only stone-built fort in the period of US expansion to the west. Television Coverage Fort James was the subject of an episode of the PBS TV archaeology series Time Team America. Notes References * Lee, Robert, ''Fort Meade, the peace keeper post on the Dakota Frontier, 1878-1944'', Old Fort Meade Museum & Historic Research Association, 1987. * Osburn, James D., Stewart, Ken R. and Wendt, Lonis R. ''Fort Pierre-Deadwood Trail: Then & Now'', Cheyenne River Press, 2008. External links Anniversary Wago ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort James (Ghana)
Fort James (alternatively referred to as James Fort) is a fort located in Accra, Ghana. It was built by the Royal African Company of England (RAC) as a trading post for both gold and slaves in 1673, where it joined the Dutch Fort Crêvecœur (1649), and the Danish Fort Christiansborg (1652) along the coast of the then Gold Coast. Along with other castles and forts in Ghana, Fort James was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979 because of its importance during the European colonial period. Fort James was likely named after James, then Duke of York, later King James II, who was Governor of the RAC at the time it was built and after whom the adjacent town of Jamestown in Accra is also named. The fort stands next to Jamestown Lighthouse and from the colonial era up to 2008, served as a prison. Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, was imprisoned from 1950 to 1951 with common criminals in Fort James. Current situation It is an historic castle and serves as a to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort James (Tobago)
The Curonian colonization of the Americas was performed by the Duchy of Courland (now Latvia), which was the second-smallest state to colonise the Americas, after the Knights of Malta. It had a colony on the island of Tobago from 1654 to 1659 and intermittently from 1660 to 1689. This website contains further bibliography: *Archibald, D. "Tobago: melancholy isle, vol. I 1498-1771" 137 pp. Westindiana, 1987, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago *Carmichael,Gertrude "The history of the West Indian Island of Trinidad and Tobago, 1498-1900", 463 pp. 8 plts. 1961, London, UK. *Edmundson "The Dutch in Western Guiana" English historical review: 1901 Vol. XVI 640 - 675 pp. -- About he first period of Dutch settlements in Guiana and Tobago, including some i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort James, Antigua And Barbuda
Fort James is a fort at the entrance to the harbour of St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda. The fort was built to guard St. John's harbour and is one of the many forts built by the British in the 18th century. Fear of a French invasion prompted the construction. It is located on a headland overlooking the town northwesterly. A powder magazine, several cannons and the foundation of the fort's wall remain. The main attraction today is the excellent view of the surrounding harbor. The fort is named after King James II of England. Work on the fort started in 1706, and most of the buildings were built in 1739. In 1773, the fort was armed with 36 guns, and had a barracks which accommodated 75 men. In the 19th century, a gun fired salutes A salute is usually a formal hand gesture or other action used to display respect in military situations. Salutes are primarily associated with the military and law enforcement, but many civilian organizations, such as Girl Guides, Boy Sco ... a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burrow Island
Burrow Island (also known as 'Rat Island') is a tidal island in Gosport, United Kingdom. The island overlooks Portsmouth harbour. At low tide a spit connects it with Priddy's Hard. It has been suggested that the name dates from the 17th century and is derived from being within the borough of Gosport. Between 1678 and 1679, a fortification named Fort James was constructed on the island under the direction of Bernard de Gomme. It took the form of a square tower 19 ft tall. The fortification was apparently allowed to decay with George Byng commenting on its poor condition in a letter written in either 1707 or 1708. It appears that a rebuilding to a new design was proposed on 1750 but this never took place. What were by then the ruins of the fort were partially demolished in 1827 and nothing now remains above ground level. It has been claimed that King Stephen built a fortification on the island but this is unlikely to have been the case. Burrow Island is owned by the Mini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Island (Gambia)
Kunta Kinteh Island, formerly called James Island and St Andrew's Island, is an island in the Gambia River, from the river mouth and near Juffureh in the Republic of the Gambia. Fort James is located on the island. It is less than 3.2 km (2 miles) from Albreda on the river's northern bank. As an important historical site in the West African slave trade, it is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, together with related sites including a ruined Portuguese chapel and a colonial warehouse in Albreda, the ''Maurel Frères Building'' in Juffureh, and Fort Bullen and Six-Gun Battery, which are located at the mouth of the Gambia River. History The first record of European interaction with the island is in May 1456, when a Portuguese expedition led by Italian explorers Alvise Cadamosto and Antoniotto Usodimare moored off the island. They buried one of their sailors, named Andrew, on the island, giving it its first European name—St Andrew's Island. Diogo Gomes also anchored o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Amsterdam
Fort Amsterdam was a fort on the southern tip of Manhattan at the confluence of the Hudson and East rivers. It was the administrative headquarters for the Dutch and then English/British rule of the colony of New Netherland and subsequently the Province of New York from 1625 or 1626, until being torn down in 1790 after the American Revolution. It was the nucleus of the settlement in the area that became New Amsterdam and eventually New York City. In its subsequent history it was known under various such names as ''Fort James'', ''Fort Willem Hendrick'' and its anglicized ''Fort William Henry'', ''Fort Anne'', and ''Fort George''. The fort changed hands eight times in various battles including the Battle of Long Island in the American Revolution, when volleys were exchanged between the fort and British emplacements on Governor's Island. After the fort's demolition Government House was constructed on the site as a possible house for the United States President. The site is now occ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Berthold
Fort Berthold was the name of two successive forts on the upper Missouri River in present-day central-northwest North Dakota. Both were initially established as fur trading posts. The second was adapted as a post for the U.S. Army. After the Army left the area, having subdued Native Americans, the fort was used by the US as the Indian Agency for the regional Arikara, Hidatsa, and Mandan Affiliated Tribes and their reservation. In the mid-1950s both of the former fort sites were submerged under Lake Sakakawea, created by extensive flooding of the bottomlands after the Garrison Dam was constructed on the Missouri River. The forts were named after Italian-born Bartholomew Berthold (1780-1831), a prominent merchant and fur trader of St. Louis. He collaborated with the Chouteau and Astor families in trading in this region. He built what became known as the Berthold Mansion at Fifth (now Broadway) and Pine streets in St. Louis. Decades after his death, it was used as the headquarter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Severn First Nation
Fort Severn First Nation ( [] in Swampy Cree language, Cree) is a Western Swampy Cree First Nations in Canada, First Nation band government located on Hudson Bay and is the most Extreme communities of Canada, northern community in Ontario, Canada. In 2001, the population was 401, consisting of 90 families in an area of 40 square kilometres. The legal name of the reserve is Fort Severn 89, with the main settlement of Fort Severn ( []). The town is linked by a winter road, winter/ice road called the Wapusk Trail during the winter to Peawanuck, Ontario, in the east, and Shamattawa, Manitoba, Shamattawa and Gillam, Manitoba, to the west. Fort Severn is policed by the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service, an Indigenous-based service. History This area was inhabited for thousands of years by varying cultures of indigenous peoples. At the time of European contact, the historic Swampy Cree, an Algonquian languages, Algonquian-speaking people, lived in the area. In 1689 the Hudson's Bay Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamestown Rediscovery
Jamestown Rediscovery is an archaeological project of Preservation Virginia (formerly the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities) investigating the remains of the original English settlement at Jamestown established in the Virginia Colony in North America beginning on May 14, 1607. In 1994, at the behest of Preservation Virginia, archaeologist William Kelso began directing excavations at Historic Jamestown on Jamestown Island. By 1996, the Jamestown Rediscovery team had discovered the foundations of the 1607 James Fort, long thought to have disappeared in the waters of the James River. It was initially a 10-year project, but given the wealth of knowledge and artifacts uncovered throughout its lifetime, it has been continued indefinitely. History In 1994, Preservation Virginia agreed to fund a 10-year archaeological project called Jamestown Rediscovery, in order to survey and explore their land. The original goal was to locate archaeological remains of "the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Royal
Port Royal is a village located at the end of the Palisadoes, at the mouth of Kingston Harbour, in southeastern Jamaica. Founded in 1494 by the Spanish, it was once the largest city in the Caribbean, functioning as the centre of shipping and commerce in the Caribbean Sea by the latter half of the 17th century. It was destroyed by an earthquake on 7 June 1692, which had an accompanying tsunami, leading to the establishment of Kingston, which is now the largest city in Jamaica. Severe hurricanes have regularly damaged the area. Another severe earthquake occurred in 1907. Port Royal was once home to privateers who were encouraged to attack Spanish vessels, at a time when smaller European nations were reluctant to attack Spain directly. As a port city, it was notorious for its gaudy displays of wealth and loose morals. It was a popular homeport for the English and Dutch-sponsored privateers to spend their treasure during the 17th century. When those governments abandoned the prac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamaica
Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola (the island containing the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic); the British Overseas Territory of the Cayman Islands lies some to the north-west. Originally inhabited by the indigenous Taíno peoples, the island came under Spanish rule following the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1494. Many of the indigenous people either were killed or died of diseases, after which the Spanish brought large numbers of African slaves to Jamaica as labourers. The island remained a possession of Spain until 1655, when England (later Great Britain) conquered it, renaming it ''Jamaica''. Under British colonial rule Jamaica became a leading sugar exporter, with a plantation economy dependent on the African slaves and later their des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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