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2 unusual facts about House on Ellicott's Hill


House on Ellicott's Hill

When he arrived on February 24, he set up camp on the bluff atop which the house is located, raising the American flag for the first time over the new territory.

James Moore House

House on Ellicott's Hill, Natchez, Mississippi, also known as James Moore House, a U.S. National Historic Landmark


6th Massachusetts Regiment

During General William Howe's first attack on Breed's Hill, Nixon was wounded and was withdrawn from the battle.

Acanthosaura

Acanthosaura titiwangsaensis Wood Jr., Grismer, Lee Grismer, Ahmad, Onn & Bauer, 2009 - Fraser's Hill and Cameron Highlands, Pahang, and Peninsular Malaysia

Alasdair Mac Colla

Mac Colla's men were mostly killed in the Confederate defeats at the Battle of Dungan's Hill in County Meath and then at the Battle of Knocknanauss in County Cork.

Alexander Perepilichny

He moved to the exclusive Saint George's Hill estate in Weybridge, where he lived in a £12,500-a-month luxury home.

Axbridge Hill and Fry's Hill

The very thin soils here support populations of one nationally rare species, Cheddar bedstraw (Galium fleurotii) and four nationally scarce species, pale St John's wort (Hypericum montanum), sea storksbill (Erodium maritimum), dwarf mouse-ear (Cerastium pumilum) and spring cinquefoil (Potentilla tabernaemontani).

Barbara Euphan Todd

As Barbara Euphan, in 1935 Todd wrote South Country Secrets and The Touchstone with her husband, in which observation of the countryside is combined with interest in its history, after the manner of Rudyard Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill.

Batman's Hill

The site now forms the eastern border of the Melbourne Docklands (a precinct of the Docklands development is also named Batman's Hill) and is dominated by Southern Cross Station and the Collins Street bridge built in 2002 to replicate the original curve and shape of the hill.

Bessie Bangay

She moved to Chesham, Bucks in 1910 and started to help at St George's Church, Tyler's Hill, Ley Hill, near Chesham, Bucks, England.

Bower's Hill, Virginia

An additional crossing of Hampton Roads, to supplement the James River Bridge and the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel was a long-sought highway improvement in the area.

Butler's Hill

The nearby Broomhill park was the former site of Sherwood Zoo, which went bankrupt in 1976

Carpenter's Battery

John Cadwalider Carpenter, born in 1839 at Covington, Virginia served as Captain of the battery after his brother Joseph was wounded; he commanded the battery through many engagements, including fifteen major battles, and lost an arm in combat at the Battle of Fisher's Hill, but survived the war.

Chilworth, Surrey

The village nestles below the North Downs, overlooked by St. Martha's Hill and St. Martha's Church.

Culp's Hill

He sent a small party to reconnoiter, and they encountered the 7th Indiana Infantry of the I Corps, part of Brig. Gen. James S. Wadsworth's division, which had been in the rear guarding the corps trains and was now linked up with the Iron Brigade, digging in following their fierce battle on Seminary Ridge.

Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell had discretionary orders to seize the heights south of town, and he believed that Culp's Hill was unoccupied and therefore a good target, one that would make the Union position on Cemetery Hill untenable.

Dead Man's Hill

Dead Man's Hill is an electronic, death industrial, martial, neo-classical and post-industrial band founded in 1998 by Bart Piette, originally with the name "The Klinik And The Mortuary".

Fairy fort

In literature, British author Rudyard Kipling made allusions to the process by which such legends grow in his 1906 novel, Puck of Pook's Hill.

Henry Gurney

On 6 October 1951, he was shot to death on his way to Fraser's Hill for a meeting; the guerrillas of the Malayan Communist Party ambushed his Rolls Royce during the Malayan Emergency period.

Hoddle Grid

It was planned to span a gently sloping valley between small hills (knolls) (Batman's Hill, Flagstaff Hill and Eastern Hill) and roughly parallel to the course of the Yarra River.

Incident at Hawk's Hill

Incident at Hawk's Hill opens in 1870, on Hawk's Hill, the farm of William and Esther MacDonald, set in the Canadian Prairies about twenty miles north of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Jimmy Corcoran

During its early years, residents feuded with neighboring squatters on Clara's Hill, founded by immigrants who had lived in the same region in Mountmillick, Ireland.

Malaysia Federal Route 55

On 6 October 1951, Sir Henry Gurney a British High Commissioner in Malaya was shot to death at this road on his way back to Fraser's Hill for a meeting; the guerrillas of the Malayan Communist Party ambushed his Rolls Royce during the Malayan Emergency period.

MCPA

In 1936 investigations began at ICIs Jealott's Hill research centre into the effects of synthetic hormones on plant growth looking specifically for a way to kill weeds without harming crops such as corn.

Merry England

The Rudyard Kipling of Puck of Pook's Hill is certainly one; when he wrote it, he was in transition towards his later, very conservative stance.

Minor's Hill

A line connected it with Fort Ethan Allan at Chain Bridge (three miles, with connections to Washington via Fort Corcoran, using four wires), and to Hall’s Hill in eastern Arlington County (two miles, using one wire).

Oasis Academy Lord's Hill

They represent diverse areas of human activity: Literature, Engineering, Medical Care and Scientific Endeavour.

Oasis Trust

Further "Church.co.uk" network churches have developed running alongside the communities of the Oasis Academies in Salford, Oldham, Brightstowe, Bristol, Enfield, Southampton (Lord's Hill & Mayfield), Immingham and Wintringham.

Puck of Pook's Hill

The stories are all narrated to two children living near Burwash, in the area of Kipling's own house Bateman's, by people magically plucked out of history by the elf Puck, or told by Puck himself.

A poem about English trees but emphasising the symbolic nature of Oak, Ash and Thorn.

Raymond's Hill

In September 2013, two months after a series of car accidents in which two people were killed, MP Neil Parish held an inquiry into the same blackspot, and has vowed to ensure that the Highways Agency improves the junction.

Recreational walks in East Sussex

Downs Link — 59 kilometres from the North Downs Way at St. Martha's Hill near Guildford, Surrey to the South Downs Way at Steyning, and on to Shoreham-by-Sea

Richard Jupp

a folly, Severndroog Castle (built as a memorial to Commodore Sir William James – a former chairman of the East India Company), on Shooter's Hill in south-east London (1784).

Rowley Hill

Rowley's Hill, located near the villages of Harston and Newton in Cambridgeshire, England.

Spencer Street, Melbourne

The home of John Batman was built on nearby Batman's Hill where he lived until his death and the early camps of Captain William Lonsdale and Charles La Trobe were located along the street.

St. Martha's Hill

The graveyard of the church includes a memorial to actress and singer Yvonne Arnaud, whose ashes were scattered there.

Steele's Hill-Grafton Hill Historic District

It was developed at a time when Dayton’s population was moving from the center of the city outward, north of the Miami River.

The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775

The foreground is littered with bodies from both sides of the conflict, and the background includes clusters of colonial and British troops carrying flags; Boston Harbor is also visible in the distance, although the sky is partially obscured by smoke (which rose from Charlestown, which had been torched by the British).

He was killed during or shortly after the storming of the redoubt atop Breed's Hill by British troops.

General William Howe, standing to the left of Clinton from the viewer's point of view with his sword pointing forward.

Woolwich Common

It is bounded to the south side by the A207 Shooter's Hill Road, and to the east by Academy Road (part of the A205 South Circular road) that the former Royal Military Academy fronts.


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