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The castle played a significant role in the Wars of the Roses, and in the Civil War, when it was badly damaged. [2] Various magnates held the castle, most prominently the Percy Earls of Northumberland from the 15th to 17th centuries. [3] It passed to the Wyndham family, the current owners, in the 18th century.
Before leaving Castle William, the British set fire to the fort, damaging it and its ordnance as best they could. [11] During the Revolutionary War, a fort called Fort Independence was built on Point Allerton in Hull, Massachusetts. In 1797, the name was transferred to the former Castle William, apparently leaving the fort in Hull without a name.
Two Roman statuettes were discovered on Cockersand Moss near the abbey site in 1718, possibly indicating the presence of a Romano-British shrine nearby. One statuette of Mars, which was part of Lord Arundel's collection that William Stukeley exhibited in 1719 to the Society of Antiquaries was an inscription which has been recorded as DEO MARTI NODONTI AVRJELIVS .....
Captain William Smith House (2023) The battles of Lexington and Concord took form before dawn on April 19, 1775. Soldiers passed by Smith's house on their way to Concord, and again on their way back to Boston. Paul Revere and William Dawes were detained by a British Army patrol nearby during the "Midnight Ride" to Concord.
Cockersand Abbey chapter house is a mausoleum in the English village of Thurnham, Lancashire.A Grade I listed building and formerly part of Cockersand Abbey, it dates to 1230. [1]
Piel Castle, also known as Fouldry Castle or the Pile of Fouldray, is a castle situated on the south-eastern point of Piel Island, off the coast of the Furness Peninsula in north-west England. Built in the early-14th century by John Cockerham, the Abbot of neighbouring Furness Abbey , it was intended to oversee the trade through the local ...
The Windsor Castle sailed from England under the command of Acting Captain William Rogers, bound for the Leeward Islands and Barbados in September 1807, carrying the mail. [1] She carried six 4-pounder guns and two 9-pounder carronades and had a crew of 28 men and boys. [ 2 ]
Cockerham is a civil parish in Lancaster, Lancashire, England.It contains 19 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England.Of these, two are listed at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II.