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	Port Royal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Port Royal was the centre of shipping commerce in Jamaica until an earthquake on June 7, 1692 largely destroyed it, causing two thirds of the city to sink into the Caribbean Sea.
		Port Royal grew to be one of the two largest towns and the most economically important port in the English colonies.
		A new Town of Port Royal was constructed near Old Port Royal and it became the principal station of the British naval forces in the Caribbean
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Port_Royal (1014 words)

	Brief History of Port Royal
		Croix in 1604 and Port Royal in 1605.
		In 1713 Port Royal was definitely ceded to England by the Treaty of Utrecht.
		In 1610 the Port Royal venture was revived by Jean de Biencourt, Sieur de Poutrincourt, primarily for the establishment of a fur trading post, but with a very definite commitment of converting the Indians and of bringing in settlers.
	users.andara.com /~grose/portroy.html (5829 words)

	History of Nova Scotia; Acadia, Bk.1, Port Royal and The English Takeover: 1690-1712; Part 2; Ch. 3, Phips and the Taking of Port Royal (1690).
		Port Royal, being a harbourage to French cruisers and a place from which hostile Indians drew supplies, in 1689, was a place marked by New Englanders to be destroyed.
		In addition to capturing Port Royal, Phips dispatched certain of his officers and ships to seize the posts at Castine, La Harve, Chedabucto10 and all those settlements at the head of the Bay of Fundy.
		Before leaving Port Royal (not an Englishman was left behind) Phips attempted to organize a provisional government by appointing selected French Acadian leaders to form a council.
	www.blupete.com /Hist/NovaScotiaBk1/Part2/Ch03.htm (917 words)

	www.portroyal.net
		Port Royal, a prestigious landmark of Naples, is considered one of the finest neighborhoods in the world.
		The streets and harbors of Port Royal are appropriately given names reminiscent of the pirates who formerly used Southwest Florida as a haven between scavenging expeditions; Spyglass Lane, Rum Row, and Man of War Cove are indicative of the colorful titles.
		However, as land values in Port Royal have continued to escalate, the majority of the older homes have been razed to make way for new, grandiose residences that typically have living areas ranging from 4,000 to 7,000 square feet, with some over 10,000.
	www.portroyal.net (379 words)

	ACADIAN-CAJUN Genealogy: Acadian History: Port Royal
		In the census of 1671, the population of Port Royal was 350.
		A 1745 report from Port Royal says the homes were “wretched wooden boxes, without conveniences, and without ornaments, and scarcely containing the most necessary furniture...”, and a visitor in the 1750s said “the houses of the village (Annapolis Royal)...
		Port Royal became the capital of Acadia in 1700.
	www.acadian-cajun.com /proyal.htm (1293 words)

	JAMAICA - A premier caribbean travel destination featuring the resort areas of Montego Bay, Negril, Ocho Rios, Kingston, Port Antonio and South Coast.
		In the seventeenth century, Port Royal was the headquarters of the numerous swashbuckling scoundrels that plundered the high seas.
		Port Royal is also home to the Archaeological Division of the Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT), which recently completed a sonar survey of the underwater city, revealing a sunken pirate ship in the Kingston Harbour.
		Port Royal is also the home of a few one-of-a-kind features; Kingston’s only sidewalk restaurant is here, Kingston’s only seaside hotel is just outside the town limits and Kingston’s most popular seaside pub can be found here.
	www.visitjamaica.com /resorts/kingston/places_general.aspx?guid=3a064610-aaf5-4247-8f9b-65bf7a8be926 (806 words)

	CG 73 Port Royal
		Port Royal departed on her second deployment in January 2000 as part of the USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) Carrier Battle Group on deployment to the western Pacific and Arabian Gulf.
		Port Royal is the 27th Aegis Cruiser, and the last cruiser to be constructed in the 20th century.
		Port Royal deployed Sept. 2, 2003 with ESG 1, supporting a Chief of Naval Operations and Commandant of the Marine Corps-sanctioned strike group experiment designed to provide forces that are more flexible in the global war on terrorism.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/cg-73.htm (1946 words)

	Welcome to Historic Port Royal!
		Today, Port Royal, though small and quiet, is a collection of active citizens, who contribute their talents to 21st century pursuits while retaining their love and appreciation for the unique setting in which they live.
		Port Royal was incorporated as a town in 1744.
		In 1731 a rolling road was constructed from Milford to Port Royal, for the purpose of rolling hogsheads of tobacco down to the docks for shipment.
	www.co.caroline.va.us /portroyal.html (537 words)

	Port Royal, South Carolina (Cities)
		Port Royal is located in Beaufort County along Highway 802 on the banks of the Coosaw River near the Port Royal Sound.
		Port Royal is a small community south of Beaufort near the Parris Island Marine Corps base.
		Port Royal is a town steeped in history and the community reflects that.
	www.ohwy.com /sc/p/portroya.htm (190 words)

	A Special Gleaner Feature on Pieces of the Past: 1692:Earthquake of Port Royal
		All that was left of Port Royal was about 25 acres, a substantially depleted population and a skeleton of a town.
		From 1660 to 1692, Port Royal therefore became a haven for rogues such as the Welshman, Henry Morgan and 'three-fingered' Jack Rackham.
		The duration of the quake is unclear, many Port Royal residents are documented as saying that it lasted at least 15 minutes, but most reports indicated that the catastrophe took no more than two to three minutes.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /pages/history/story001.html (1346 words)

	Port Royal
		Port Royal's importance dates from the capture of Jamaica by the English from the Spaniards in 1655.
		Jamaica National Heritage Trust Sign in Port Royal
		Once called "the richest and wickedest city in the world" Port Royal was also the virtual capital of Jamaica.
	www.jnht.com /kingston/portroya/portroya.html (237 words)

	History of Nova Scotia; Acadia, Bk.1, Port Royal and The English Takeover: 1690-1744; Part 2; Ch. 9, The Taking of Port Royal (1710).
		Port Royal had been taken before, indeed twice before, and both times by men from New England: under Major Robert Sedgwick in August of 1654 and under Sir William Phips in May of 1690: in each case it had been restored to France by treaty.
		The 1710 British campaign against Port Royal was under the command of the 55 year old Englishman, Francis Nicholson.
		The taking of Port Royal in 1710 is particularly important to our story, for, with its capture came England's claims to all of Acadia.
	www.blupete.com /Hist/NovaScotiaBk1/Part2/Ch09.htm (2323 words)

	Historic Port Royal
		Port Royal was hit by Hurricane Gilbert in 1988 but escaped remarkable unscathed, and there are many buildings and museums to explore.
		Port Royal Marine Laboratory of the University of the West Indies
		Although work started on rebuilding Port Royal almost immediately, the town was gutted by fire in 1703, and many residents decided it was time to relocate.
	www.discoverjamaica.com /tour5.htm (695 words)

	TN State Parks: Port Royal State Park
		Port Royal is an historic park and a day use park.
		Port Royal is located approximately 12 miles southeast of downtown Clarksville, Tennessee, off Hwy.
		Port Royal State Park is a place of quiet natural beauty.
	www.state.tn.us /environment/parks/parks/PortRoyal (55 words)

	Background History of Port Royal
		Port Royal is different from most archaeological sites, belonging to a small group of sites that includes Pompeii and Herculaneum in Italy, Ozette in the state of Washington, and shipwreck sites.
		After the restoration of Charles II and the monarchy in England in 1660, The Point was renamed Port Royal, and the fort, was renamed Fort Charles (Taylor 1965:131; Pawson and Buisseret 1975:9).
		Although Port Royal was designed to serve as a defensive fortification, guarding the entrance to the harbor, it assumed much greater importance.
	nautarch.tamu.edu /portroyal/PRhist.htm (1421 words)

	Port Royal. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		Port Royal (c.2 acres/0.8 ha) is coextensive with Palisadoes peninsula and is customarily considered part of Kingston parish, though retaining some administrative functions.
		Port Royal was, in early colonial times, hq.
		Remaining is Fort Charles (begun 1662), where Nelson commanded in 1779.
	www.bartleby.com /69/41/P07141.html (139 words)

	Port Royal
		Port Royal is basically the last cay in a line of connected cays extending from the mouth of the Hope River.
		Port Royal was a safe protected harbor with a good draught and centrally located along the trade routes between Panama and Spain.
		Today Port Royal is a quiet little town, with only a few relics of its romantic past: Fort Charles at the entrance to the harbour once under the command of Horatio Nelson, St.
	blindkat.hegewisch.net /pirates/portroyal.html (2309 words)

	Better than Atlantis?
		Port Royal began its watery journey to the Academy Awards of nautical archeology on the morning of June 7, 1692, when, in a matter of minutes, a massive earthquake sent nearly 33 acres of the city -- buildings, streets, houses, and their contents and occupants -- careening into Kingston Harbor.
		Port Royal, says Hamilton, belongs to an elite group of archeological sites that includes Pompeii and Herculaneum, Roman towns frozen in time by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
		Once known as the "Wickedest City on Earth" for its sheer concentration of pirates, prostitutes and rum, Port Royal is now famous for another reason: "It is the only sunken city in the New World," according to Donny L. Hamilton of Texas A&M University's Institute of Nautical Archeology.
	whyfiles.org /036pirates/lost_city.html (683 words)

	Port-Royal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Port-Royal was a Cistercian convent in the Vallée de Chevreuse southwest of Paris that launched a number of culturally important institutions.
		For other uses of the term, see Port Royal (disambiguation).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Port-Royal (408 words)

	Port-Royal
		Port-Royal, near ANNAPOLIS ROYAL, N.S., was the first permanent European settlement north of the Spanish settlements in Florida.
		After it was captured by the British in 1710, Port-Royal was renamed Annapolis Royal.
		It became the capital of the French colony of ACADIA, and from it Acadian families spread out around the Bay of Fundy.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?ArticleId=J0006416 (163 words)

	Port Royal, Jamaica
		In the late 17th century, Port Royal was the largest English town in the Americas (at the time, Boston was a close second).
		Port Royal was the economic center of the Caribbean but it was also called the
		This map is my interpretation of Port Royal as it was before the earthquake.
	www.shawnbrown.com /maps/port_royal.html (88 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Port-Royal
		Port- Royal, having refused to subscribe to the formulary drawn up by the Assembly of the Clergy in 1657, all the petites écoles were successively closed, the novices were driven out from the abbey, and the confessors expelled.
		From that time began the persecution of Port-Royal which the pleading of Arnauld, the famous distinction of fact and law, and the "Provinciales" of Pascal only increased.
		Histoire générale du Port- Royal (Amsterdam, 1765); R
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12295a.htm (1145 words)

	Port Royal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Port Royal was the center of shipping commerce in Jamaica until an earthquake on June 7, 1692 largely destroyed it, causing two thirds of the city to sink into the Caribbean Sea.
		Port Royal grew to be one of the two largest towns and the most economically important port in the English colonies.
		A new town of Port Royal was constructed near Old Port Royal and it became the principal station of the British naval forces in the Caribbean
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Port_Royal (976 words)

	USS Port Royal (CG-73) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		USS Port Royal (CG-73) is a United States Navy guided missile cruiser, the last to be constructed in the 20th century, and the first cruiser to integrate women into the crew.
		Port Royal departed Pearl Harbor on 17 November 2001 to rejoin the Stennis battle group.
		The Port Royal deployed in 1996 as part of the Nimitz battle group.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Port_Royal_(CG-73) (321 words)

	Port Royal Ocean Resort & Conference Center - Facilities/General Information
		The Restaurant at Port Royal, located on the third floor of the main building, overlooks the Lagoon Pool, lush courtyard and the Gulf of Mexico.
		Port Royal Ocean Resort features ample, assigned parking for guests during their stay.
		Large balconies overlooking Mustang Island and 25 acres of Port Royal beachfront property along the Gulf of Mexico.
	www.port-royal.com /Facilities2.html (368 words)

	Port Royal Landing Marina, Port Royal, South Carolina
		Port Royal Landing Marina is located one half mile south of red day marker 244 (mile marker 539) directly on the ICW.
		The Beaufort/Port Royal area is a beautiful and historic area, and it is our intent to make your stay in the area the best that it can be.
		We have six hundred feet of easy in/easy out face dock, and we can be accessed from the Ocean through both Port Royal Sound or St. Helena Sound.
	www.portroyallandingmarina.com (176 words)

	Port Royal Island on Encyclopedia.com
		THE PORT ROYAL EARTHQUAKE.(Port Royal, Jamaica earthquake in 1692)
		Underused Port at Heart of Port Royal, S.C., Dispute with State Agency.
		Plan: Add part of Lemon Island to Port Royal: Developer to propose annexation of about a quarter of the island.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-P1ortR1oyI1s.asp (205 words)

	Port Royal
		Port Royal (later Annapolis Royal) is located in western Nova Scotia and is the oldest permanent European settlement in Canada.
		Port Royal was renamed Annapolis Royal in honor of Queen Anne.
		Port Royal changed hands a total of five times in the years before 1710, at which time the British took final control.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h842.html (227 words)

	Port Royal
		Port Royal was settled in 1605 by fur traders from France.
		Port Royal was the first settlement (1605) north of Flordia.
		The French rebuilt the habitation on the other side of the river and where Annapolis Royal is now located.
	www.mekkerfest.com /Nova/13Royal.html (409 words)

	Amerivest Realty - Naples Florida Homes For Sale - Naples Florida Real Estate
		Port Royal Naples Florida just may be one of the finest communities in the world. This ultimate waterfront real estate community features just over 500 estates. Port Royal is bordered on the west by the Gulf of Mexico, where homeowners can enjoy the sandy beaches and tranquil sunsets.
		H.1191 Representing the ultimate in waterfront living, this two-story Port Royal estate is situated on a breathtaking southern exposure lot with wide water views overlooking...
		A magnificant Port Royal estate home awaits you behind the entrance gates, circular driveway and courtyard.
	www.amerivestrealtyofnaples.com /Port-Royal (768 words)

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