• HMS Deal Castle was a 24-gun sixth-rate ship of the Royal Navy, purchased in 1706 and in service in West Indies, North America and English waters until...
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  • named Deal Castle, after the castle of the same name. HMS Deal Castle (1697), a sixth rate HMS Deal Castle (1706), a sixth rate HMS Deal Castle (1727)...
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    Aldborough 1706 HMS Nightingale 1707 HMS Deal Castle 1706 Flamborough group 24-gun sixth rates 1707 HMS Flamborough 1707 HMS Squirrel 1707 Gibraltar group 20-gun...
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  • HMS Deal Castle was a member of the standardized 20-gun sixth rates built at the end of the 17th century. After she was commissioned she was in Newfoundland...
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    ships off Ostend in July 1706 in an action during the War of the Spanish Succession. Ogle was given command of the fourth-rate HMS Swallow and saw action...
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    Navy. Dursley commanded HMS St George in 1706, and narrowly escaped the Scilly naval disaster in which Sir Cloudesley Shovell in HMS Association was lost...
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    20-gun frigate HMS Deal Castle. This began a streak of changes in command for Hardy, with him moving to the 50-gun ship of the line HMS Coventry in April...
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    Airthrey Castle is a historic building and estate which now forms part of the buildings and grounds of the University of Stirling in central Scotland....
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  • from the first-rate to the fifth-rate. Once in effect, it superseded the 1706 Establishment, which had specified major dimensions for ships of the second-rate...
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  • the Claudian conquest Underwater excavation of the Warship Hazardous Prize 1706 shipwreck near Bracklesham Bay 3 "North" Fiona Cushley Fiona Cushley Nick...
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    performed in the town and knew the area. The playwright George Farquhar's 1706 play The Recruiting Officer is set in the town. In the later Renaissance...
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  • a lack of toilet breaks. 15 August – A shipwreck, believed to be that of HMS Hawke, which was sunk by a torpedo during World War I, has been found off...
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    Sìth) is an heirloom of the chiefs of Clan MacLeod. It is held in Dunvegan Castle along with other notable heirlooms, such as the Dunvegan Cup and Sir Rory...
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  • There, a new settlement was formed, being granted a council two years later (1706), with the name of San Roque, and being considered by the Spanish Crown as...
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    hard-fought action against an overwhelming French force while commander of HMS Nightingale. Jermy was born in 1653, the son of William Jermy (d. 1662) of...
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    Governor Bennett was to issue letters of marque to Bermudian Privateers. In 1706, Spanish and French forces ousted the Bermudians, but were driven out themselves...
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    Portugal in April 1821, leaving him to rule Brazil as regent. He had to deal with challenges from revolutionaries and insubordination by Portuguese troops...
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    laying down his cape for Elizabeth, Captain James Cook's third voyage aboard HMS Resolution, and the mysterious apparent murder of Christopher Marlowe in...
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  • notably during the Boston Tea Party in 1773. Benjamin Franklin (17 January 1706 – 17 April 1790) (voiced by Jim Ward in Assassin's Creed III and by Rick...
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  • Waldeck-Wildungen (1645–1692) and Count of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1692–1706) (d. 1706) August 9 – Philip Traherne, British book collector (d. 1686) August...
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    through their mothers. Alice Wright and John Ball had been married on 8 April 1706 at St. Stephen Walbrok, City of London, a year before the Manor House of...
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  • Bulzoni. p. 82. Bulifon, Antonio (1932). "Giornali di Napoli dal 1547 al 1706 (a cura di N. Cortese)". Società napoletana di storia patria. Rondoni, Giuseppe...
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    and Malplaquet (1709). His success continued in Italy, notably at Turin (1706). Renewed Austro-Turkish conflicts saw Eugene triumph at Petrovaradin (1716)...
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  • policemen. 1 February: The last and largest warship built on the Thames, HMS Thunderer is launched by the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company in...
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    meeting of the House of Burgesses and the Governor's Council – the first since 1706 – during which Spotswood listed some points in the program he intended to...
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    Subregion 1704, Upper Snake, Subregion 1705, Middle Snake, and Subregion 1706, Lower Snake. "Willamette Watershed". Portland Bureau of Environmental Services...
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  • Kept his title of "Major" instead of "Captain." Thomas Penniston d. 1706 1704–1706 Unknown A privateer who operated out of New England. He was known for...
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  • support for the coronation. 4 May: It is announced that the Type 45 destroyer HMS Diamond will be based on the Thames during the coronation to defend the King...
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    Benjamin Bennett, was to issue letters of marque to Bermudian vessels. In 1706, Spanish and French forces ousted the Bermudians but were driven out themselves...
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  • post then became a regular British institution. Diarists John Evelyn (1620–1706) and Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) depicted everyday London life and the cultural...
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