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List of Palmerston Forts around the River Clyde information


Palmerston Forts built around the River Clyde include:

  • Ardhallow Battery, Dunoon
  • Fort Matilda, Greenock
  • Portkil Battery, Clyde

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List of Palmerston Forts around the River Clyde

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Palmerston Forts built around the River Clyde include: Ardhallow Battery, Dunoon Fort Matilda, Greenock Portkil Battery, Clyde...

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Palmerston Forts

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The Palmerston Forts are a group of forts and associated structures around the coasts of the United Kingdom and Ireland. The forts were built during the...

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Second Opium War

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1858, the Xianfeng Emperor ordered the Mongol general Sengge Rinchen to guard the Taku Forts (also romanized as Ta-ku Forts and also called Daku Forts) near...

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First Opium War

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squadron in the islands around the mouth of the Pearl River. From London, Palmerston continued to dictate operations in China, ordering the East India Company...

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Ardhallow Battery

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a Palmerston Fort on the slopes of Corlarach Hill around 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Dunoon, Cowal, Scotland. Part of the local Clyde Defenses and the Scottish...

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Crimean War

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against a pattern of expansionism by the Tsar. Marx and Engels also accused Lord Palmerston of playing along with the interests of Russia and being unserious...

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Royal Navy

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Squadron. HMNB Clyde (HMS Neptune) – This is situated in Central Scotland along the River Clyde. Faslane is known as the home of the UK's nuclear deterrent...

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HMNB Portsmouth

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Harbour). These defences were extended in the 18th century, before being superseded in the 19th by the Palmerston forts which encircle Portsmouth on and off-shore...

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List of places named after people

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– John Davies Ormond Palmerston – Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Palmerston North – Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Picton – Thomas Picton...

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HMNB Devonport

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1860, the fortifications were superseded by the Palmerston Forts around Plymouth and the land occupied by the lines was either sold or utilised by the dockyard...

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Indian Rebellion of 1857

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a 'national revolt' while Lord Palmerston, the Prime Minister, tried to downplay the scope and the significance of the event as a 'mere military mutiny'...

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University of Edinburgh

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race between the Glasgow University Boat Club and the Edinburgh University Boat Club, rowed between competing eights on the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland...

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List of lochs of Scotland

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This list of lochs in Scotland includes the majority of bodies of standing freshwater named as lochs but only a small selection of the generally smaller...

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Edinburgh

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is the late 19th-century Gothic style St Mary's Cathedral in the West End's Palmerston Place. Orthodox Christianity is represented by Pan, Romanian and...

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SS Gothenburg

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with the steamship Clyde. Clyde was sunk and Gothenburg sustained damage to her stern and her propeller. As built, the ship had a registered length of 187...

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List of shipwrecks in March 1867

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The list of shipwrecks in March 1867 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during March 1867. "Marine Intelligence". Newcastle Courant...

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List of shipwrecks in September 1878

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The list of shipwrecks in September 1878 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during September 1878. "Shipping". Newcastle Courant...

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