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Locations of famous places in history |
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 | Philip II built the Sant Felip fort at the entrance of the port of Maó after sustained Muslim pirate attacks. |  | 09/09/2005 | 173 | 
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 | Wandlebury Ring was an iron age hill-fort and much of the defensive earthworks remain. | | 09/09/2005 | 186 |
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 | Burgh Mill was recorded in the Domesday Book in 1085. A brick built mill was erected in the 1500s and further enlarged around 1790, possibly making it the oldest mill in the England. | | 09/09/2005 | 161 |
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 | Soon after the Conquest in 1066, the Normans built a motte-and-bailey castle in a commanding position 2 kilometers south-east of Trematon village. | | 09/09/2005 | 186 |
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 | This is the historic site where, on September 6, 1781, British Forces, commanded by the infamous Benedict Arnold, captured the Fort and massacred 88 of the 165 defenders stationed there. | | 09/09/2005 | 185 |
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 | This Iron Age settlement is a very representative example of a "coastal castro". | | 09/09/2005 | 129 |
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 | Dumbarton was the center of the ancient kingdom of Strathclyde from the 5th century until 1018. |  | 09/09/2005 | 163 |
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 | Built in 1138 by Henri de Blois, Farnham Castle was the home of the Bishops of Winchester for over 800 years. | | 09/09/2005 | 193 |
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 | The first Cistercian abbey to be founded in Britain. | | 09/09/2005 | 140 |
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 | The castle of Arad in romania, built in the 17th century. | | 09/09/2005 | 330 |
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 | Site of an early English settlement wiped out by Miles Standish and the Pilgrims of Plymouth. The placemark actually denotes the location of the May Pole that the settlers erected, much to the dismay of their Puritan neighbors.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Drbr/williams.html | | 09/08/2005 | 183 |
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 | The now defunct Bethlehem Steel Works in Bethlehem, PA. The steel produced in this plant was used across the country for bridges and buildings and what-not. |  | 09/08/2005 | 212 |
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 | Year of 68 at Tlaltelolco, several university students were killed by the Mexican Army at this plaza. The students at the Plaza were in a massive manifestation when the army started a shooting against them. Several were killed. | | 09/07/2005 | 189 |
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 | The La Brea Tar Pits are a famous cluster of tar pits located in the Miracle Mile district of Los Angeles, California; here buried asphalt seeps to the surface from the extensive petroleum deposits below the surface of the Los Angeles Basin. It is best known for the large number of mammal fossils from the last ice age which have been found there, but fossilized insects and plants, even pollen g... | | 09/06/2005 | 418 |
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 | n 1832, Sydney opened Australia’s first quarantine station at North Head, just south of Manly. Ships carrying immigrants from all over the world were made to anchor in Spring Cove and inspected for diseases such as Smallpox, Spanish Influenza, Tuberculosis, Bubonic Plague and Cholera.
If anyone was found to be infected the entire ship was quarantined for a minimum of 30 days, at the cost... |  | 09/06/2005 | 207 |
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 | St Mary's Cathedral is the largest Roman Catholic church in Australia (and reputedly the Southern Hemisphere). It is the seat of Australia's only resident Cardinal, George Pell (Cardinal Cassidy being nonresident), and holds the title and dignity of a Minor Basilica, which were bestowed upon it by Pope Pius XI in 1930.
The present St Mary's is the second church of that name to occupy the... |  | 09/06/2005 | 201 |
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 | Gallipoli, called Gelibolu in modern Turkish, is a town in northwestern Turkey. The name derives from the Greek Kallipolis, meaning "Beautiful City". It is located on the Gallipoli Peninsula (Gelibolu Yarimadasi), with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles straits to the east.
In Australia, New Zealand and Newfoundland, Gallipoli is the name given to the Allied Campaign on the p... | | 09/05/2005 | 430 |
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 | The Battle of Dettingen (German: Schlacht bei Dettingen) took place on June 16 (some sources, no doubt using a different calendar, say June 27), 1743 at Dettingen in Bavaria during the War of the Austrian Succession. It was the last time that a British monarch, George II, personally led his troops into battle. The British forces, in alliance with those of Hanover and Hesse (the "Pragmatic Army"... | | 09/05/2005 | 329 |
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 | This is a small tour of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. It contains 13 placemark relating to the ancestral Puebloan People. | | 09/05/2005 | 231 |
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 | This map shows the plan of Angkor Thom and includes Angkor Wat to the south and part of Preah Khan to the north. | | 09/05/2005 | 645 |
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 | This is an overlay in pretty good resolution of Angkor Wat on its own. | | 09/05/2005 | 726 |
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 | The Battle of White Plains was an inconclusive meeting on October 28, 1776 in the American Revolutionary War. General William Howe's British army, with Hessian support was completing their occupation of New York and its environs. George Washington had withdrawn to the high ground near the village of White Plains. | | 09/04/2005 | 379 |
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 | The Battle of Long Island, also known as the Battle of Brooklyn, took place on August 27, 1776. On August 22, Admiral The Earl Howe, in supreme command of British forces in New York, ordered his troops to move against the Continental Army at dawn. The American outpost under Colonel Edward Hand sent word to Lieutenant General George Washington that the British were preparing to cross to Long Isl... |  | 09/04/2005 | 330 |
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 | The Hundred Days (French Cent-Jours) or the Waterloo Campaign commonly names the period between 20 March 1815, the date on which Napoleon Bonaparte arrived in Paris after his return from Elba, and 28 June 1815, the date of the restoration of King Louis XVIII. The phrase Cent jours was first used by the prefect of Paris, the comte de Chabrol, in his speech welcoming the king. It is also referred... | | 09/04/2005 | 624 |
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 | In the Battles of Jena and Auerstedt from October 10th to 14th 1806 the French Army (133,200 men) under command of Napoleon Bonaparte fought against the Prussian/Saxonian Army commanded by the Duke of Braunschweig (120,800 men).
Casualties on French site: 14,920
Casualties on Prussian site: 33,000 | | 09/04/2005 | 513 |
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