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  SS Richard Montgomery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The SS Richard Montgomery was an American Liberty ship built during World War II, one of the 2,710 used to carry cargo during the war.
Montgomery was wrecked off the coast of Kent in 1944 with around 1,500 tons of explosives on board, which continue to be a hazard to the area.
According to a BBC news report [3], in 1970 it was determined that if the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery exploded, it would throw a 1000 foot wide column of water and debris nearly 10,000 feet in the air and generate a wave 16 feet high.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery   (1089 words)

  
 Richard Montgomery
Montgomery called a council of war, at which it was decided to carry the city by assault, and to him was intrusted the advance on the southern part of the lower town.
Montgomery, Sir John Sherbrooke, governor-general of Canada, was requested to allow her husband's remains to be disinterred and conveyed to New York.
Montgomery took her place on the broad veranda of the mansion (shown in the engraving) and requested that she might be left alone as the body passed.
www.famousamericans.net /richardmontgomery   (960 words)

  
 RICHARD MONTGOMERY - LoveToKnow Article on RICHARD MONTGOMERY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hampered by the inclemency of the season and the gross indiscipline of the troops, he went forward, gaining a few minor successes and capturing the colors of the 7th (Royal) Fusiliers, and met Benedict Arnold's contingent at Point aux Trembles.
They pushed on to Quebec barely 800 strong, but an assault was made on the 3ist of December 1775, and almost at the first discharge Montgomery was killed.
Congress caused a memorial to be erected in St Paul's church, New York, and in 1818 his remains were conveyed thither from Quebec.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MO/MONTGOMERY_RICHARD.htm   (260 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Richard Montgomery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Montgomery County is a county located in the state of Illinois.
Montgomery County is a county located in the state of Indiana.
MONTGOMERY, RICHARD (1736-1775), American soldier, was born in Co. Dublin, Ireland, in 1736.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Richard-Montgomery   (1464 words)

  
 Historic Hudson Valley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Montgomery Place, a serene reflection of nearly 200 years of continuous family stewardship, is best known as an architectural landmark designed by Alexander Jackson Davis and a landscape influenced by the great Andrew Jackson Downing.
Montgomery Place was established by Janet Livingston Montgomery, widow of Revolutionary War hero General Richard Montgomery.
Montgomery Place is open to the public on weekends from May through October, from 10AM to 5PM, for self guided tours of the landscape, gardens, and woodland walks.
www.hudsonvalley.org /web/mont-main.html   (334 words)

  
 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1759 it was with Amherst on Lake Champlain and in 1760 with William Haviland in the operations leading to the conquest of Canada, and in 1762 it participated in the attacks on Martinique and Havana, Cuba.
The fleet was halted at Sorel by the threat of American batteries, and though Carleton and his aide-decamp Charles-Louis Tarieu* de Lanaudière managed to escape with the aid of Jean-Baptiste Bouchette*, the rest of the force had to surrender on 19 November, thus limiting effective government resistance to the city of Quebec.
Montgomery was also mourned by his compatriots, who considered him a promising and popular officer.
www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=36195   (3931 words)

  
 Richard Montgomery
Richard Montgomery was born in Ireland on the 2
Richard was educated at St Andrew’s and later on in Trinity.
Montgomery, Alabama is called after him, and there are 18 other towns or counties in the US with the name Montgomery.
homepage.eircom.net /~swordsourtown/local_history/cultural_trail_four/richard_montgomery.htm   (232 words)

  
 General Richard M. Gano   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Richard Montgomery Gano, doctor, soldier, and minister, son of John Allen and Mary Catherine (Conn) Gano, was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, on June 17, 1830.
The elder Gano was a minister of the Disciples of Christ and was associated with Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone in the restoration movement.
Richard was baptized into that church at the age of ten.
www.angelfire.com /tx/RandysTexas/page117.html   (532 words)

  
 Richard Montgomery Biography / Biography of Richard Montgomery Biography
Richard Montgomery (1736-1775), a colonial general in the American Revolutionary War, was known for his leadership of the attack upon Canada.
Richard Montgomery was born in Dublin, Ireland, on Dec. 2, 1736.
By the time Montgomery arrived in America, the difficulties between England and the Colonies were brewing; Montgomery quickly adopted the colonists' cause.
www.bookrags.com /biography-richard-montgomery   (226 words)

  
 Scuba Diving: Richard Montgomery : Devon Shipwrecks: Submerged Productions
With today's attitudes on all things 'green' it seems absurd that the Montgomery's cargo was not made safe years ago, but absurdity and incompetence often go hand in hand, and incompetence certainly seems to have been the hallmark of this story right from the start.
The Richard Montgomery started life as the seventh ship in a production line of eighty two Liberty ships built by the St John's River Shipbuilding Company in Jacksonville, Florida, and was launched in July 1943.
Since the Montgomery had stranded on a neap tide she could not be refloated for about two weeks, and even then only if most of her cargo was removed.
www.submerged.co.uk /montgomery.php   (1333 words)

  
 Montgomery, Vermont, New England, USA
Richard Montgomery was born at Swords, County Dublin, Ireland.
Montgomery was fully in sympathy with the colonial cause.
Vermonters who served under Montgomery found him as agreeable as they often found his colleague Benedict Arnold to be disagreeable, probably because Montgomery seems to have taken the attitude that he was a leader, while Arnold insisted on being a commander.
www.virtualvermont.com /towns/montgomery.html   (472 words)

  
 Appraisal, Appraiser, Philadelphia, Norristown, Lower Merion, Abington, Broomall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Richard had the benefit of the constant exposure to this environment and worked for Lam and Buchsbaum for several years early in his career.
Richard Lam is a partner in Lambell LP - a partnership with over 125 apartment units owned.
Richard located 26 acres of raw ground, provided subdivision analysis (43 homes) and marketing feasibility study, sold to developer, became construction manager for project and was responsible for oversight of development.
www.quickval.com /affiliates/states/Pennsylvania/Philadelphia.asp   (674 words)

  
 General Richard Montgomery, American Revolution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Richard Montgomery was born in County Dublin, Ireland, on December 2, 1738.
Benetict Arnold's contingent at Quebec, but the combined force was barely 800 strong, and in the assault on December 31, 1775, Montgomery was killed and the assault failed.
Montgomery's body was interred by the Quebec garrison, but was removed in 1818 to St. Paul's church, New York City, where congress had provided a memorial.
www.laughtergenealogy.com /bin/histprof/misc/montgomery.html   (214 words)

  
 KCOJ - Montgomery County, Kentucky
The county was named for Gen. Richard Montgomery, who was killed at the Revolutionary War battle of Quebec.
Montgomery County once stretched to the Virginia border but with the formation of Floyd, Bath, Powell, and Menifee counties, it assumed its present size in 1869.
The population of Montgomery County was 15,364 in 1970; 20,046 in 1980; and 19,561 in 1990.
www.kycourts.net /Counties/Montgomery_text.asp   (687 words)

  
 Richard Montgomery
Richard Montgomery's work can be characterized as applied differential geometry.
Kazarain, R. Montgomery and B. Shapiro: Characteristic classes for the degenerations of two-plane fields in four dimensions.
Montgomery: The connection for a family of completely integrable systems whose holonomy is the classical adiabatic angle (Berry's phase).
www.math.ucsc.edu /Faculty/Montgomery.html   (268 words)

  
 Montgomery County, MD - About Richard Montgomery
In 1695, the land that now encompasses Montgomery, Prince George's and Frederick counties, as well as Washington, D.C., was designated as Prince George's County.
Richard Montgomery was born on December 2, 1738 in Raphoe, Ireland.
At 18 he was commissioned as an officer in the British army and fought in the French and Indian Wars, before emigrating to America in 1772.
www.montgomerycountymd.gov /content/MCGinfo/county/richmont.asp   (245 words)

  
 Montgomery County - Kids Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Montgomery County was created from Frederick County in 1776.
Richard Montgomery, born in Dublin, Ireland, December 2, 1736, was an officer of distinction in the British Army.
General Montgomery never spent a minute in the county that was named for him.
www.mdkidspage.org /counties/mo.htm   (267 words)

  
 Richard Montgomery High's football forfeits rescinded   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Montgomery County school officials voted last Thursday to reinstate the Richard Montgomery High School football team's seven victories for the 1997 season.
Steven Van Grack, legal counsel for the three players at Richard Montgomery, said he was glad the situation was resolved within the system.
Richard Montgomery athletic director Mike Dichov said that he was relieved.
www.pearyhs.org /text/rmmb0128.htm   (426 words)

  
 USS Richard Montgomery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Whilst waiting for the convoy to form she was berthed off the North edge of the Sheerness Middle Sand, off the coast of the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, England.
On Aug 20th 1944 in strong winds the USS Richard Montgomery ran aground and over a period of days became stuck fast in the sand bank.
I read that the Montgomery drew 33 feet and was moored outside the Medway while waiting for the tide to turn.
www.sheppey.free-online.co.uk /history/wrecks/monty.html   (458 words)

  
 MONTGOMERY LODGE, A.F. & A.M., Milford, MA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
MONTGOMERY LODGE, A.F. and A.M., Milford, MA and A.M. e are a Freemasons' Lodge in Milford, Massachusetts.
Montgomery Lodge was chartered on September 16, 1797, by M.W. Paul Revere, Grand Master of Masons in Massachusetts.
Montgomery Lodge will be holding a CHIPS event at Milford High School on Saturday, March 4.
www.montgomerylodge.org   (651 words)

  
 Above and Beyond Standard Testing
Richard Montgomery took the first step toward becoming a testing machine in 1987, when the school board agreed to create the IB magnet program and invite students from across the county to participate.
Isadora Paymer, the parent of a Richard Montgomery sophomore, said her son will be taking three IB courses next year, meaning additional stress for their entire family.
George Margolies, staff director for the county school board and a former Richard Montgomery PTA co-president, said his younger daughter, Lisa, saw the stress her older sister, Janis, endured in the IB program and decided not to follow her lead.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/20/AR2005052001471.html   (1093 words)

  
 City Showcase   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Montgomery is the capital of Alabama and was named for a Revolutionary War hero, General Richard Montgomery and was founded in 1819.
The Montgomery Motor Speedway is a place where local, state and regional drivers compete in NASCAR stockcar racing; The Montgomery Motorsports Park offers year-round drag racing for racing fans; Music lovers can enjoy the Montgomery Symphony Orgestra that presents a classical, holiday and pop concerts as well as children's programs and outdoor pop concerts.
The famous Montgomery Musuem of Fine Arts include artists such as John Singer Sargent and Robert Henry, James McNeill Whistler and Thomas Hart Benton as well as European artists from the 15th to 18th centuries.
www.cityshowcase.com /montgomery   (741 words)

  
 Richard Montgomery Green   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
"Richard M. (29), son of George (7), who died November 2nd, 1853, aged 78, was a man of strong mind and generous feelings.
He was graduated by the College of New Jersey; was, in the early part of his life, a merchant in western New York, where he accumulated a handsome fortune, then settled in Lawrenceville.
Richard accumulated a handsome fortune in New York state, then settled in Maidenhead, purchasing a farm from Aaron Van Cleve in June of 1806.
home.att.net /~williamgreenhouse/gen/29.html   (386 words)

  
 Sacramento News and Review September 08, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Richard Montgomery, Elder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Richard Montgomery’s extensive interfaith service work, as well as that of the LDS Church, will be recognized with the Building Unity Award at the third annual Call for Unity interfaith event on September 11th at the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.
Montgomery was selected because he exemplifies the highest qualities of his faith tradition, as well as the shared interfaith goals of building a society marked by compassion, peace, justice and concern for a sustainable world.
www.newsreview.com /issues/sacto/2004-09-08/unity5.asp   (1042 words)

  
 Today in History: November 13
General Richard Montgomery led American troops in the capture of Montreal on November 13, 1775.
Montgomery was killed in the failed attempt to capture the city, and Arnold retreated to Fort Ticonderoga in northeastern New York.
The Articles of Capitulation secured by Montgomery from citizens of Montreal are included in this collection.
memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/nov13.html   (355 words)

  
 Boys' volleyball falls in intense match to Richard Montgomery - Silver Chips Online
As Richard Montgomery pulled up close from behind, the Blazers stepped up the level of their passing and the quality of their shots.
Richard Montgomery came back considerably stronger in the second game, rattling Blair's defense with several consistent serves and hits.
Richard Montgomery built a slow lead to 4-13 after siding out but was thwarted when Lee made a string of powerful hits that brought the Blazers up to 8-13.
silverchips.mbhs.edu /inside.php?sid=1689   (813 words)

  
 Richard Montgomery High School
Richard Montgomery High School was Montgomery County's first high school.
When the Board of Education established a public high school at Rockville in 1892, it allocated $300 to build an addition to the elementary school to allow room for grades 8 through 11 to meet in the same building.
When "Rockville Colored High School" opened in 1935 at Lincoln School in Lincoln Park, the School Board officially renamed the school for white students "Richard Montgomery High School." Five years later, a fire destroyed the old building.
peerlessrockville.org /peerless_places/peerless_places_richard_montgomery_1.htm   (380 words)

  
 Montgomery County, Maryland - About Montgomery County
Montgomery County is Maryland's most populous jurisdiction and its most affluent.
Montgomery County, named after General Richard Montgomery, was established by the State Convention in 1776, functioned under the County Commission system until 1948, when voters adopted a charter giving the County home rule and a council-manager form of government.
In 1968, the voters approved a new charter providing for separate legislative and executive branches of government, with the legislative power vested in an elected council and executive power in an elected county executive.
www.montgomerycountymd.gov /content/MCGinfo/county/AboutCnty.asp   (371 words)

  
 Richard Montgomery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An engraving depicting the death of General Montgomery at the Battle of Quebec.
Richard Montgomery (December 2, 1736 – December 31, 1775) was an Irish-American soldier who served as a major general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
Grave of General Montgomery at St Paul's Church
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Montgomery   (392 words)

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