Wolfgang William Romer (23 April 1640 – 15 March 1713) was a Dutch military engineer, born at The Hague. He was the third son, in a family of six sons...
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Historical Magazine records that the shoal was named after Colonel Wolfgang William Romer, who sounded the waters of New York Bay in 1700 on order of the...
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Lambertus Romer (1680 – 1754) was a British military engineer. He was the son of Wolfgang William Romer, a Dutch engineer who came to England with William of...
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originated in 1700 with the report by the English military engineer Wolfgang William Römer, who claimed there were "as many islands as there are days in the...
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Romer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Wolfgang William Romer (1640–1713), Dutch/British military engineer Ole Rømer (1644–1710)...
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by the Abenaki during King Philip's War. It was rebuilt. During King William's War, a raiding party of French and their native allies attacked and largely...
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Fort Independence (Massachusetts) (redirect from Fort William, Massachusetts)
1701 to 1703, the fort was further expanded. It was designed by Wolfgang William Romer, the chief engineer of British forces in the American colonies,...
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Fort William and Mary was a colonial-era fortification in Great Britain's worldwide system of defenses, defended by soldiers of the Province of New Hampshire...
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April 22 – Mariana Alcoforado, Portuguese nun (d. 1723) April 23 – Wolfgang William Romer, Dutch military engineer (d. 1713) April 26 – Frederick, Count of...
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1701, Colonel Wolfgang William Romer, the chief military engineer for North America, came to Boston to fortify the harbor. Castle William was improved...
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off future attacks. The village was again destroyed in 1690 during King William's War by a combined force of 400-500 French and Indians in the Battle of...
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responsibilities by Queen Anne. The governor immediately dismissed Colonel Wolfgang William Römer, the imperial engineer who had responsibility for maintaining the...
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Countess Fauconberg, daughter of Oliver Cromwell (b. 1637) March 15 – Wolfgang William Romer, Dutch military engineer (b. 1640) March 17 – Juraj Jánošík, Slovak...
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(One of the earliest maps naming the river Royal was a 1699 map by Wolfgang William Romer on which it was spelled "Roiall River.") This stream and its vicinity...
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New Castle. Both Fort William and Mary and Fort William figured in the American Revolution. On 14–15 December 1774 Fort William and Mary was raided twice...
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quartermaster general in charge of the Holsteiner Fortifications Service, Wolfgang William Romer, fell out of favour with the King for having hired unsuitable foreign...
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William Atwood, William Smith, Peter Schuyler, Abraham de Peyster, Samuel Staats, Robert Walters, Sampson Shelton Broughton, Wolfgang William Romer,...
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Römer as Col. Simon McKew Leon Niemczyk as John McKew Mieczysław Kalenik as General Brook Milan Beli as Raffael Wolfgang Greese as Governor William Harrison...
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Casco Bay (section King William's War)
Cascos", translated as "Bay of Helmets", based on its shape. Colonel Wolfgang William Römer, an English military engineer, reported in 1700 that the bay had...
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April 22 – Mariana Alcoforado, Portuguese nun (d. 1723) April 23 – Wolfgang William Romer, Dutch military engineer (d. 1713) April 26 – Frederick, Count of...
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palisaded fort in New Casco on Casco Bay in 1698 at the conclusion of King William's War. Fort Casco was built at the behest of Wabanakis who desired a convenient...
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Countess Fauconberg, daughter of Oliver Cromwell (b. 1637) March 15 – Wolfgang William Romer, Dutch military engineer (b. 1640) March 17 – Juraj Jánošík, Slovak...
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and the large circular bastion of Fort William Henry was reconstructed (based on Colonel Wolfgang William Romer's drawings dating to 1699) in 1908. The...
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Indiana on June 12, 1912. He was the elder of two children born to Frederick Romer Peters and Claire Adelaide (née Margedant) Peters. His sister, Margedant...
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(Libretto: Wolfgang Heribert von Dalberg after Carlo Gozzi), Singspiel, 1798 Das Fest in Apollons Haine (Libretto: Georg Christian Römer), Festspiel...
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Bill Clinton (redirect from William Jefferson Clinton)
William Jefferson Clinton (né Blythe; born August 19, 1946) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 42nd president of the United States...
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Physics, 2019 William Kaelin Jr., Physiology or Medicine, 2019 Gregg L. Semenza, Physiology or Medicine, 2019 Paul Romer, Economics, 2018 William Nordhaus...
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Professor of International Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School Paul Romer, economist, University Professor in Economics at Boston College, former...
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December 2024. Rostagno, Massimo; Altavilla, Carlo; Carboni, Giacomo; Lemke, Wolfgang; Motto, Roberto; Saint Guilhem, Arthur; Yiangou, Jonathan (December 2019)...
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1823: Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner invents the first lighter. 1824: Johann Nikolaus von Dreyse invents the bolt-action rifle. 1824: William Sturgeon invents...
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