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	Battle of Preston (1715) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Preston (9 November–14 November 1715), also referred to as the Preston Fight, was fought during the Jacobite Rising of 1715 (often referred to as the First Jacobite Rising, or Rebellion by supporters of the Hanoverian government).
		Their horse troops entered Preston on the night of 9 November 1715, and as they approached two troops of dragoons and part of a militia regiment retreated to Wigan.
		The battle of Preston is often claimed to have been the last fought on English soil, but the 'Forty-Five' Jacobite Rebellion saw a minor engagement at Clifton Moor near Penrith in Cumbria on 18 December 1745.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Preston_(1715) (577 words)

	Battle of Preston (1648) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Preston (17 August – 19 August 1648 resulted in a victory by the troops of Oliver Cromwell over the Royalists and Scots commanded by the Duke of Hamilton.
		Failures in the timetable was to have a fatal impact on the success of the whole enterprise; for it meant that the New Model Army was able to suppress royalist risings in England and Wales-already underway-in a piecemeal fashion.
		While the battle was underway Langdale rode off to warn Hamilton that he was subject not to a probe but a full-scale attack.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Preston_(1648) (3267 words)

	Letitia Preston Floyd's memoirs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Preston's situation was then a straightened one, she sent her son to her brothers with a message; the youngest daughter of Col. Patton knew her cousin, but her mother did not.
		Preston was required by the congregation of Episcopalians in Staunton to procure a carpenter to undertake the building of a church in town.
		Preston was detained by the illness of Mrs.
	www.fortunecity.com /millenium/quarrybank/194/sfletprmem.htm (9197 words)

	Ancestry of William Preston
		William Preston was County Lieutenant, Sheriff, and Surveyor of Fincastle County, VA 1772-1776 during which time most of the best land in Kentucky in the central Bluegrass and around the Falls of the Ohio was surveyed and granted to various individuals for services in the French and Indian War.
		During the spring and early summer of 1779 Preston was concerned with the possibility of a Tory insurrection in the frontier area.
		Letitia Preston was born in "Smithfield", Montgomery Co., VA September 29, 1779.
	millennium.fortunecity.com /sesame/453/prestona.htm (5750 words)

	'Fifth Beatle' Dies At 59, Keyboardist Billy Preston Loses Battle With Long Illness - CBS News
		Preston's longtime manager, Joyce Moore, said Preston had been in a coma since November in a care facility and was taken to a hospital in Scottsdale Saturday after his condition deteriorated.
		Preston's partnership with the Beatles began in early 1969 when friend George Harrison recruited him to play on "Let It Be," a back-to-basics film and record project that nearly broke down because of feuding among band members.
		Preston remained close to Harrison and performed at Harrison's all-star charity event, "The Concert for Bangladesh" and at the "Concert for George," a tribute to Harrison, who died of cancer in 2001.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/06/06/entertainment/main1687588.shtml (824 words)

	Military History Online - The Battle of Dunbar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Battle tactics varied according to the commander but generally they advanced three deep at a fast trot, holding their fire until at close quarters before falling on the enemy with their swords.
		During the battle, Lambert was wounded three times and briefly captured before being rescued by elements of the 1st horse.
		A desperate battle ensued as both sides traded musket fire and moved in for "the push of the pike." The Scots, fighting downhill, had the advantage halting the attack which then seesawed with charges and countercharges.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /2ndenglishcivilwar/dunbar.aspx (4731 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Preston
		It was formed in 1973 with the amalgamation of Galt, Hespeler, and Preston, all founded in the early 19th cent., and parts of Waterloo and North Dumfries townships.
		Oliver Cromwell 's headquarters before the battle of Preston (1648) were in the city.
		Wielding the pen: Margaret Preston, Confederate nationalistic literature, and the expansion of a woman's place in the South.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Preston&StartAt=11 (695 words)

	Preston
		On the 24th, as the Japanese initiated a triple-pronged thrust to drive the Allied forces from Leyte Gulf, Preston’s group, TG 38.3, came under severe attack in what was to be the first of the battles for Leyte Gulf.
		During February, Preston screened the carriers as their planes delivered devastating blows to industrial complexes on the Japanese home islands; provided air support for the assault troops on Iwo Jima; returned to Japan for further strikes on Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, and Kobe; and then sailed south for renewed raids against the next amphibious target, Okinawa.
		Preston, reassigned to TF 54 after returning to Ulithi in early March, sailed for the Ryukyus, 21 March, to screen the bombardment and underwater demolition groups.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/p11/preston-vi.htm (1211 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / Conn. / Legal battle brews over golf course plan for Preston farm
		A farm now eyed for use as an 18-hole golf course is at the center of a legal fight between the family that owns the property and the state, which views it as a threat to farmland preservation efforts.
		PRESTON, Conn. --A farm now eyed for use as an 18-hole golf course is at the center of a legal fight between the family that owns the property and the state, which views it as a threat to farmland preservation efforts.
		Preston First Selectman Robert Congdon said the town could use the tax revenue from a golf course and a planned clubhouse and restaurant, which Powers said could be worth $500,000 a year.
	www.boston.com /news/local/connecticut/articles/2004/11/28/legal_battle_brews_over_golf_course_plan_for_preston_farm?mode=PF (682 words)

	The Battle of Prestonpans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The northern counties force, under Thomas Forster, a Northumberland squire, was surrounded by a smaller cavalry force and tamely surrendered near Preston, Lancashire.
		The ensuing battle was as curious as it was indecisive.
		The battle of Fontenoy on 11 May 1743 confirmed his opinion; the English were now in desperate trouble on the Continent, and all he had to do was to show his face in Scotland and the country would rise to support him.
	freespace.virgin.net /thomas_carroll.woods/The_Battle_of_Prestonpans.html (2294 words)

	Prince Charles - Lead up to the Battle of Preston
		In the expectation that the Highlanders were advancing by the usual route through Musselburgh, Cope had taken up the position we have described with his front to the west; but as soon as he observed the Highlanders on the heights upon his left he changed his front to the south.
		Halting opposite Preston tower he seemed to threaten that flank of the English general, who, thereupon, returned to his original position with his front to Preston, and his right towards the sea.
		The order of battle formed by Cope along the north side of the morass was as follows:- He drew up his foot in one line, in the centre of which were eight companies of Lacelles's regiment, and two of Guise's.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/charles/23.htm (3236 words)

	Ancestry of Susannah Preston
		Letitia Preston Hart was born March 15, 1802.
		Preston was born in Augusta Co., VA May 31, 1762.
		Mary Preston was born Augusta Co., VA 1740.
	members.tripod.com /~labach/sprestoa.htm (9802 words)

	USN Ships--USS Preston (DD-379)
		A few weeks later, during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, Preston was one of four destroyers attached to a task force built around the battleships Washington (BB-56) and South Dakota (BB-57).
		In this short and intense action, Preston was fatally damaged by enemy shellfire and quickly sank, with the loss of over one hundred of her crew.
		Preston, USN (1840-1865), who was killed in action during the assault on Fort Fisher, North Carolina, in January 1865.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-p/dd379.htm (786 words)

	1648: The Second Civil War: Battle of Preston
		Despite Langdale's warning, Hamilton decided to continue marching his infantry across the Ribble south of Preston, leaving Langdale to fend off what was thought to be a harassing attack by the Parliamentarians.
		Having secured Preston, Cromwell's troops were faced with a battle for the bridge over the Ribble and then a second bridge over the River Darwen before they could reach the main Scottish position on the hill at Walton Hall.
		Having left a strong force at Preston to guard the prisoners and to garrison the town against a possible attack by Monro, Cromwell had only 3,000 foot and 2,500 horse and dragoons against 10,000 Scots.
	www.british-civil-wars.co.uk /military/1648-preston.htm (1175 words)

	Preston College - PC Home
		The cast of students from Preston College are treading the boards in aid of St Catherine’s Hospice and will be performing scenes from the musical at the hospice Garden Party on June 18.
		Preston College’s version of ‘A Chorus Line’ at 7.30pm on July 1 and 2 will be Preston’s premiere performance of the musical.
		Battle of the Bands starts at 7.15pm tickets are £3 and can be purchased from the marketing department at Preston College, Fulwood Campus.
	www.preston.ac.uk /News.html (1047 words)

	Ayton and Preston - The Battle of Crécy, 1346
		The next chapter, "The Battle of Crécy," by Michael Prestwich, begins with a concise phrase: ‘It is impossible to reconstruct the past’.
		The next article, "The Battle of Crécy: A Hard Blow for the Monarchy of France," by Françoise Autrand, analyses the consequences of the rout for the crown.
		King Philip’s retreat from the battle was unanimously seen as a shame, while King John of Bohemia’s romantic death became a symbol for the opposition to the French monarchy.
	www.deremilitari.org /REVIEWS/Ayton_Crecy.htm (1163 words)

	USS Preston (DD-379), Mahan-class destroyer
		The fifth USS Preston, DD 379, was laid down 27 October 1934 at the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, Calif., Iaunched 22 April 1936,
		Two days later, Preston, in the carrier screen, introduced her guns to the enemy at the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.
		Preston was captured during an attack on Ft. Sumter in 1863 and exchanged in 1864.
	www.destroyerhistory.org /goldplater/usspreston.html (505 words)

	Battle of Preston - Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He deployed in two lines, with Stafford's battle in front, with orders to try and edge to the right to overlap the enemy left.
		Clifford was to head for the Boni left head-on, while the unnamed marshal fought a delaying battle against the Boni right and center.
		The Flaming Axe right delaying battle was quickly overrun, leaving only Clifford's knights under a trusted captain to hold their left.
	members.shaw.ca /krblackley/resultfive.htm (294 words)

	Around Our Communities \| Battle Creek Enquirer - www.battlecreekenquirer.com - Battle Creek, Mich.
		Kristie Preston of Battle Creek is a finalist in today's Break the Ice contest, a central air-conditioning giveaway promoted by WAYfm, 88.3, a Kalamazoo Christian radio station.
		Preston's name was drawn from a pool of more than 50 who had won daily call-in contests during May.
		She and three other finalists will to try to break through blocks of ice using a frozen chicken, a cheese grater, a bottle opener and a hairbrush to get to a key and win an air-conditioning unit.
	www.battlecreekenquirer.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060525/NEWS01/605250304&SearchID=73245836013912 (399 words)

	Walton-le-Dale JFC
		Walton Le Dale is situated on the south banks of the River Ribble in Lancashire, directly accross the river from Preston.
		Walton Le Dale's historical claim to fame is that it was the site of one of the last battles on British soil when Oliver Cromwells army fought the Duke of Hamiltons forces in 1648 on the bridge over the Ribble.
		Preston and Walton Le dale was the scene of one of the decisive battles of the English civil war.
	homepages.tesco.net /alan.bateson/locality.htm (798 words)

	Prince Charles - Battle of Preston
		Such were the impetuosity and rapidity with which the first line of the Highlanders broke through Cope's ranks, that they left numbers of his men in their rear who attempted to rally behind them; but on seeing the second line coming up they endeavoured to make their escape.
		Unfortunately for the royal infantry, the walls of the inclosures about the village of Preston, which formed their great security on their right, now that these were in their rear, operated as a barrier to their flight.
		The impetuosity of the royal army, allowed little leisure for the exercise of humanity, and before the carnage ceased several hundreds had fallen under the claymores of the Highlanders, and the ruthless scythes of the Macgregors.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/charles/24.htm (902 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Preston, Lancashire, UK
		It was near Preston that the Roman legions crossed the River Ribble, as it is the lowest fording point before the estuary.
		Preston today is a hive of activity and any visitor would find plenty to do for amusement.
		Preston North End was one of the founder members of the football league, and have had a chequered history, but have not won a major trophy for many years.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A486065 (1247 words)

	Preston gets set for streetwise soccer showdown
		Over 300 Young people from across Preston are to battle it out to be top of the table at the Streetwise Soccer finals on Sunday 5th September.
		The tournament, which has been organised by a whole host of agencies including Preston City Council sports development team and the Police is designed to show crime the red card, giving young people something to do in their spare time.
		The Streetwise Soccer Initiative is organised by the City Council, the Police, Preston North End, Positive Futures and Preston United and funded by Aven Central, Cumberland Building Society and the Youth Offending Team.
	www.preston.gov.uk /News.asp?id=SXE769-A7800E32 (408 words)

	Military Prints, Battle of Culloden
		After the battle of Falkirk, the Jacobite army marched towards Inverness closely followed by the Duke of Cumberland's English army.
		battles are fought and won, or lost as all battles are, but Culloden's aftermath changed Scottish Highland society forever, ushering in a long period of suffering.
		The Somerset Light Infantry at the Battle of Culloden during the Jacobite rising of 1745 to 1746.
	www.war-art.com /battle_of_culloden.htm (1654 words)

	Battle of Dunbar 1650 - ScotWars
		The battle flag of the Covenanters bore the motto "For Christ's Crown and Covenant" and first appeared in 1639 in front of the Covenanter army commanded by General Alexander Leslie, first Earl of Leven, from Fife.
		The Ironsides -- never defeated in battle -- hit the exhausted Scots in an opening to the left of the infantry fighting and their line collapsed.
		It was what the clerics subsequently called a "religious manifestation," a fairly common occurrence among deeply religious men of all faiths caught in battle during the Middle Ages and early Renaissance.
	www.scotwars.com /html/battle_of_dunbar.htm (5566 words)

	The Battle of Dunbar
		Scarlet was the cheaper color of choice for most professional soldiers regardless of rank, their country of origin or which side they were on, making for some rather confusing battles.
		That battle flag bore the motto "For Christ's Crown and Covenant" and first appeared in 1639 in front of the Covenanter army commanded by General Alexander Leslie, first Earl of Leven, from Fife.
		The English victory was so complete that Cromwell broke into uncontrollable laughter amid the agonized screams of the wounded from both sides and the shattering silence of the bodies scattered two and three deep in places across the Dunbar battlefield.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/5568/dunbar.html (5323 words)

	PRESTON LANCASHIRE ENGLAND Information on Preston History
		1648 The Battle of Preston between Royalist (Duke of Hamilton) and Parliamentarians (Cromwell) on Ribbleton moor.
		Preston becomes a major railway centre and key mobilisation base.
		Preston's role as a natural business and administrative centre for Lancashire is re-asserting itself as a dominant employer through to the next millennium.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /ogara/history2.htm (1888 words)

	Battle of Preston 1648; Holmes, Richard (Director, Cranfield University Security Studies Institute); Paperback (C ...
		Battle of Preston 1648; Holmes, Richard (Director, Cranfield University Security Studies Institute); Paperback (C Format)
		This title covers the Battle of Preston, fought in 1648 during the Second Civil War.
		In this battle Oliver Cromwell and his force, made up of regiments of the New Model Army and Lancashire militia, defeated the army of Scots and English Royalists under the Duke of Hamilton.
	www.netstoreusa.com /hjbooks/094/0948087404.shtml (207 words)

	Jackson T'wn, Spicy Hill in relegation battle - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		Duanvale, one of three semi-finalists so far, will in the meantime be seeking to return to the top of the points standings in the ding-dong battle with Preston.
		Duanvale are on 28 points, two less than Preston but with a game in hand.
		In the other game, Kinloss and Holland who play Studs on Sunday, are the top teams in the running for the lone semi-final spot available and Jackson Town could go down to their seventh loss of the season.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /sports/html/20060324T220000-0500_101263_OBS_JACKSON_T_WN__SPICY_HILL_IN_RELEGATION_BATTLE.asp (239 words)

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