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    Captain John Montresor (22 April 1736 – June 1799) was a British Army officer and cartographer who served in North America during the American War of Independence...
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    James Gabriel Montresor (19 November 1704 – 6 January 1776) was a British military engineer. Montresor was born on Broad Street or St. James's, Westminster...
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    Fortunato follows him into the Montresor family vaults, which also serve as catacombs. However, there is no amontillado; Montresor instead lures him into a...
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    his wound a week later at the residence of British military engineer John Montresor. namesake of Abercrombie, Nova Scotia Richard Frothingham Jr. Russell...
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  • Montresor is a surname, and may refer to: Adelaide Montresor, née Adelaide Malanotte (1785–1832), Italian opera singer Beni Montresor (1926–2001), Italian...
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    exiting the port. Gage assigned Captain John Montresor of the British Corps of Engineers to the task. Montresor presented six designs to Penn and the Board...
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    Henry Tucker Montresor KCB GCH (18 April 1767 – 10 March 1837) was a general in the British Army. He was born the son of Captain John Montresor; Henry's brothers...
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    began with the capture of Fort Niagara in 1759. The British engineer John Montresor mentions the name Buffalo Creek four times in his journal of 1764, indicating...
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    amphibious attacks on Manhattan from Montresor's Island. John Montresor's wife Frances worked at a hospital on Montresor's Island, and troops on that island...
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    village of Buffalo was named for Buffalo Creek. British military engineer John Montresor referred to "Buffalo Creek" in his 1764 journal, the earliest recorded...
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    country." The account of the quote originated with British Captain John Montresor, who was present at the hanging. The next day, he spoke with American...
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    later erected for Susanna Haswell Rowson and her brothers Robert and John Montresor Haswell at Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood...
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    November 16, 1777, saw British land batteries commanded by Captain John Montresor and a British naval squadron under Vice Admiral Lord Richard Howe attempt...
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    right) and journal made by British military engineer John Montresor in 1760 and 1761, but Montresor's descriptions of the route were not very detailed, and...
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    During the Revolutionary War. in 1776 the British military engineer John Montrésor created a map of the river showing the strategic location of Fort Pitt...
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    Buffalo Creek was in common use on the Niagara Frontier by 1764, as John Montresor referenced 'Buffalo Creek' in his journal of that year. The name may...
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    Thomas Gage (1768) Portrait of Margaret Kemble Gage (c. 1771) John Hancock (1765) John Montresor, 1771 Dorothy Quincy Hancock (1772) Samuel Adams (1772) Portrait...
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    the likely mass used to adjust the lifting force. Designed by Captain John Montresor, the new railway replaced manual labor performed by the Seneca and touched...
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    the layout. This stronghold is also diagrammed in a map credited to John Montrésor indicating that this was a part of Charlestown at the time. The "Midnight...
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    quickly spread, burning for days. In May 1774, British military engineer John Montresor described the fort after the fire: "the conflagration of the late fort...
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    Tables being as free to their Naybours as to themselves. By 1766, when John Montresor made his detailed plan of New York, "Bowry Lane", which took a more...
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    Beni Montresor (31 March 1926 – 11 October 2001) was an Italian artist, opera and film director, set designer, author and children's book illustrator...
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    recorded railway in America. It was an inclined wooden tramway built by John Montresor (1736–1799), a British military engineer, in 1764. Called "The Cradles"...
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    guineas to pay for it. The events, which were planned by Captains John André and John Montresor and others, included a regatta along the Delaware River, accompanied...
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    Pennsylvania forces 1759. Contains a report by British military engineer John Montresor detailing his suggested plan of attack on Ticonderoga. 'Ticonderoga'...
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    focused on the defense of Philadelphia. British military engineer Capt. John Montresor supervised the building of a series of fourteen formidable redoubts...
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  • vice-admiral. He was son of General Thomas Gage Montresor, grandson of John Montresor and nephew of Henry Tucker Montresor. In 1851, he married Emily Delafield....
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    Governor's Island were devised in 1766 by British military engineer John Montresor. These plans were never realized, even though the British had asked...
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  • Major General Robert Montresor Rogers, VC, CB (4 September 1834 – 5 February 1895) was a British Army officer and an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross...
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    United States was an inclined wooden tramway built here in 1764 by John Montresor (1736–1799), a British military engineer. Called "The Cradles" and "The...
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