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North Carolina - King Charles IX of France. Name retained by British colonists in honor of King Charles I of England. South Carolina - King Charles IX of France. Name retained by British colonists in honor of King Charles I of England. Virginia - Queen Elizabeth I of England, in a reference to her epithet The Virgin Queen.
During World War I, additional gun batteries were installed on Cape Henry at Fort Story and on Fisherman's Island near Cape Charles. During World War II, the coast artillery batteries at Fort Story were expanded and additional batteries were installed at Fort John Custis on Cape Charles to guard the entrance to Hampton Roads Harbor.
Cape Charles was named in honor of Charles I of England, the second son of King James I and his eventual successor to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Cape Henry, which forms the southern side of the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay, and Cape Charles are collectively known as the Virginia Capes.
Charles Omenihu (born August 20, 1997) [1] is an American professional football defensive end for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Texas . [ 2 ]
On Sept. 29, 1717 he and Captain Benjamin Hornigold captured the sloop Betty off Cape Charles and plundered her cargo of Madeira wine and other valuables and scuttled the ship. [ 3 ] For over two centuries Smith Island was held by the Custis family of Virginia having been granted to John Custis in 1691.
Cape Charles, located close to the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, on Virginia's Eastern Shore, was founded in 1884 as a planned community by railroad and ferry interests.In 1883, William Lawrence Scott became president of the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad Company (NYP&N), and purchased three plantations comprising approximately 2,509 acres from the heirs of former Virginia Governor ...
Juneau named after Joseph Juneau, French-Canadian prospector and gold miner [18]: 480 La Chaussée Spit at the entrance of Lituya Bay. Named originally in charts prepared by French explorer Jean-François de La Pérouse in 1786. La Chaussée means "causeway". [19]
The term cape has a different tradition of usage in the American Midwest along the Mississippi River. The middle Mississippi River Valley once formed part of the French Colonies of Quebec and Louisiana , also referred to as Upper Louisiana (Haute-Louisiane) or the Illinois Country (Pays des Illinois). [ 1 ]