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	St. George's - Fortifications
		George’s Island on the northeast tip of Bermuda, is vulnerable because of a narrow navigable stretch through the treacherous reef.
		This fort was built during the 1650s to guard the narrow passage between the Castle Island and the Bermuda mainland.
		Fort George was built in 1615, and completely reconstructed in the 1820s.
	www.bermudatourism.com /stg_forts.html (1079 words)

	St. George's Parish in Bermuda
		The fort, overlooking the beach where Bermuda's first involuntary settlers came ashore from the shipwrecked Sea Venture flagship in 1609, is nearly two miles north east of the town of St. George.
		St. George's Island - then referred to as King's Island because it was where the British King's representative was based - was the first to be colonized.
		Sometimes called Fort St. Catherine Beach because it is next to the fort, this is where the first colonists waded ashore in 1609 from the wreck of the flagship "Sea Venture." From here, they saw wild boars and promptly pigged out with a vengeance.
	www.bermuda-online.org /seestgeo.htm (7570 words)

	Fort St Catherine Bermuda
		If you arrive in Bermuda by cruise ship at St George this may be one of the first sights you will see.
		Fort St Catherine is located north of the town of St George and is not on a major bus route.
		Since then Fort St Catherine has been rebuilt several times, with most of the current structure dating from the late 19th century.
	www.bermuda4u.com /Attractions/bermuda_attractions_fort_st_catherine.html (291 words)

	Tucker, St. George
		With a substantial population of slaves, there was little work for established families and St. George Tucker, the youngest of four sons (there were also two daughters) would begin the study of law in Bermuda but left in 1771 at age nineteen to finish his studies at the College of William and Mary.
		Robert M. Scott, St. George Tucker and the Development of American Culture in Early Federal Virginia 1790-1824 (Dissertation, George Washington University, 1990) (Examination of Tucker's relationship to the culture of federal Virginia drawing on his poems, essays, and plays and his identification with Jeffersonian republicanism and the republican ideal.
		The Tucker family produced a long line of jurists and scholars, including St. George Tucker's sons, Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848) and Nathaniel Beverley, and a grandson, John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897), all lawyers, and Nathaniel and John Randolph poets as well.
	www.wvu.edu /~lawfac/jelkins/lp-2001/tucker_st_g.html (1504 words)

	Publications
		1998 "Fort St. George on the Kennebec," Bermuda Journal of Archaeology and Maritime History, vol.
		1995 "Fort St. George: Archaeological Investigation of the 1607-1608 Popham Colony on the Kennebec River in Maine." Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts.
		1997 "Fort St. George II: Continuing Investigation of the 1607-1608 Popham Colony on the Kennebec River in Maine." Peabody Essex Museum, Salem,, Massachusetts.
	www.pophamcolony.org /new_page_9.htm (469 words)

	Town of St. George, Bermuda
		George's Parish in Bermuda; Georgetown in the Cayman Islands, Georgetown of Guyana in South America and St. George's of Grenada in the Caribbean.
		Jennifer Smith, Premier of the Bermuda Government, represents St. George's North, one of the two electoral districts in the Parish.
		, when Wilmington, North Carolina was captured by Union forces, the fleet of blockade runners based in Nassau and St. George's, Bermuda, vanished - and so did the prosperity that the US Civil War had brought Bermuda by being so hugely on the side of the Confederates.
	www.bermuda-online.org /seetown.htm (5046 words)

	webpages\peerage\peers
		Just before Philip's marriage to Elizabeth, was made Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth, and Baron Greenwich with the style of His Royal Highness and was appointed a Knight of the Garter by the Elizabeth's father, King George VI.
		British Territories include: British Indian Ocean Territory, Gibraltar, Bermuda, Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, British Antarctic Territory, St Helena and its dependencies (Ascension and Tristan da Cunha), Montserrat, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Anguilla, and the Pitcairn Group of Islands.
		He was, however, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, and Baron of Refrew, Lord of the Isles, and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland--a slew of titles (one from each of the four countries of the United Kingdom) that ensured his status as peer rather than as a commoner from the cradle.
	www.geocities.com /britishisleshistory/peers/peers.html (1248 words)

	Bermuda's World Heritage Town of St. George
		George's Parish in Bermuda; Georgetown in the Cayman Islands, Georgetown of Guyana in South America and St. George's of Grenada in the Caribbean.
		Jennifer Smith, Premier of the Bermuda Government, represents St. George's North, one of the two electoral districts in the Parish.
		A son of the second generation of Doctor George Forbes was Francis Forbes who was Bermuda's first native-born Attorney General.
	www.bermuda-online.org /seetown.htm (1248 words)

	Bermuda's World Heritage Town of St. George
		George's Parish in Bermuda; Georgetown in the Cayman Islands, Georgetown of Guyana in South America and St. George's of Grenada in the Caribbean.
		It was built by Dr. The Honorable George Forbes, originally from Strathdon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland and an emigrant to Bermuda, by then a Councilor and member of the Executive Council of the Bermuda Government.
		As this website is newspaper supported, not St. George's or Bermuda Government supported, all matters about the town and Town Criers past and present should be addressed directly to the Mayor and Corporation, at its office, "Buckingham," 2 King Street, St. George's GE 05, telephone 297-1532, fax 297-0062.
	bermuda-online.org /seetown.htm (5031 words)

	Bermuda History
		The Virginia Company sends a party of 60 settlers to Bermuda under the command of Governor Thomas Moore and lays claim to the island and begins construction of the capital, St George.
		Bermuda, dependent on America for its food, receives an offer of exemption on condition that gunpowder stored at St George is shipped to America.
		Bermuda’s capital moves from St George to Hamilton.
	www.bermuda4u.com /Essential/bermuda_history.html (565 words)

	Tucker, St. George
		With a substantial population of slaves, there was little work for established families and St. George Tucker, the youngest of four sons (there were also two daughters) would begin the study of law in Bermuda but left in 1771 at age nineteen to finish his studies at the College of William and Mary.
		Robert M. Scott, St. George Tucker and the Development of American Culture in Early Federal Virginia 1790-1824 (Dissertation, George Washington University, 1990) (Examination of Tucker's relationship to the culture of federal Virginia drawing on his poems, essays, and plays and his identification with Jeffersonian republicanism and the republican ideal.
		The Tucker family produced a long line of jurists and scholars, including St. George Tucker's sons, Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848) and Nathaniel Beverley, and a grandson, John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897), all lawyers, and Nathaniel and John Randolph poets as well.
	www.wvu.edu /~lawfac/jelkins/lp-2001/tucker_st_g.html (1504 words)

	Bermuda History
		The Virginia Company sends a party of 60 settlers to Bermuda under the command of Governor Thomas Moore and lays claim to the island and begins construction of the capital, St George.
		Bermuda, dependent on America for its food, receives an offer of exemption on condition that gunpowder stored at St George is shipped to America.
		Bermuda’s capital moves from St George to Hamilton.
	www.bermuda4u.com /Essential/bermuda_history.html (565 words)

	flag of Bermuda - Subdivisions flags, Fahnen, Flaggen, FOTW bei Nationalflaggen.de
		Perhaps it is intended as part of a historical reenactment of the pre-1707 days when the Cross of St. George flew over Bermuda.
		- St. George's - Coat of Arms at <
		Also, although both St George's Parish and Sandys Parish show a contiguous mainland, this is a string of islands connected by bridges.
	www.nationalflaggen.de /flags-of-the-world/flags/bm-.html (460 words)

	Bermuda's World Heritage Town of St. George
		George's Parish in Bermuda; Georgetown in the Cayman Islands, Georgetown of Guyana in South America and St. George's of Grenada in the Caribbean.
		Jennifer Smith, Premier of the Bermuda Government, represents St. George's North, one of the two electoral districts in the Parish.
		George's in particular, became the second-largest, after Nassau, Bahamas, transshipment base for large British-built but not British-approved (because Britain was officially neutral) ships crossing the Atlantic and smaller but faster, also mostly British-built but Confederate-owned fleet of blockade runners.
	bermuda-online.org /seetown.htm (5091 words)

	Town of St. George in Bermuda, A-D
		, when Wilmington, North Carolina was captured by Union forces, the fleet of blockade runners based in Nassau and St. George's, Bermuda, vanished - and so did the prosperity that the US Civil War had brought Bermuda by being so hugely on the side of the Confederates.
		This is why St. George is most often shown wearing a white tabard with the red cross of the crusaders and is the patron saint not only of England but also Boy Scouts (as St. George was a hero of Lord Baden - Powell), various places in Spain and elsewhere.
		But in this British colonial town named after the saint, the Flag of St. George is flown only over St. Peter's Church, not in the town proper, not even on April 23, the official feast day in England of St. George, who died in 304.
	www.bermuda-online.org /seetown.htm (5091 words)

	Bermuda's 123 Islands
		It was the original home in Bermuda of the first planned settlers and they even made rock ovens for their food from the local limestone until they moved to St. George's Island and the Town of St. George in the summer and autumn of 1612.
		It preserves the memory of Bermuda's earliest crop in which at one time salaries and wages were paid.
		Bermuda is said to have begun some 100 million year ago as a volcanic mountain, with the volcanoes having disappeared 70 million or so years ago.
	bermuda-online.org /abcbda2.htm (6864 words)

	Travel: Patiently preserving Bermuda
		The Bermuda National Trust Museum, opposite St. Peters Church in St. George, features a highly regarded exhibit on the island's involvement in the United States's Civil War.
		Largely because of trust advocacy, the "Historic Town of St. George and Related Fortifications" was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2000, underlining the efforts at preserving island history.
		Bermuda comes across like this, a place of such beauty and competence that its natural and human history seems unblemished.
	www.sptimes.com /News/110401/Travel/Patiently_preserving_.shtml (1698 words)

	Satellite Aiming Chart
		BERMUDA - St. George - St. George´s Parish
		BERMUDA - Tucker´s Town - St. George´s Parish
		USA - WASHINGTON D.C. USA - West Palm Beach - FL ANTIGUA and BARBUDA - All Saints
	www.digiwavetechnologies.com /satellite_aiming_chart.htm (1698 words)

	Bermuda's 123 Islands
		It was the original home in Bermuda of the first planned settlers and they even made rock ovens for their food from the local limestone until they moved to St. George's Island and the Town of St. George in the summer and autumn of 1612.
		Bermuda is one of the oldest, smallest but most populated of the British Overseas Territories - and oldest British Commonwealth member (not shown by name but via Great Britain).
		The Bermuda National Trust bought the acreage for $850,000 and the Bermuda Government paid the Trust $200,000 for a 23.5 percent share in the acreage.
	bermuda-online.org /abcbda2.htm (6864 words)

	MuseumRegister: Museums in Bermuda listed by categories
		Bermuda National Trust Museum (The) at the Globe Hotel, St George
		Bermuda National Trust Museum (The), St George Parish
		Museum of the Bermuda Historical Society/Bermuda Public Library, Hamilton
	www.museumregister.com /Bermuda/Categories.html (128 words)

	The Second Amendment in the Nineteenth Century, Dave Kopel, BYU Law Review
		George Tucker threw himself into the cause enthusiastically, heading up a gun-running operation in which his four small ships sent indigo to the West Indies and Bermuda in exchange for firearms for the Patriots.
		Henry St. George Tucker was the son of St. George Tucker, author of Tucker's Blackstone.
		Like Tucker, Rawle was a distinguished attorney long before he became an "influential treatise writer."(92) Elected to the Pennsylvania legislature in 1789, Rawle declined George Washington's repeated offers to serve as the first Attorney General.
	www.davidkopel.com /2A/LawRev/19thcentury.htm (13308 words)

	St. George's Club (The), Rose Hill, St. George, Bermuda
		George's Club (The), Rose Hill, St. George, Bermuda
		George's offers a private beach, at Achilles Bay next to historic Fort St. Catherine, is one of the best snorkeling and scuba diving spots on the Island with water clarity to150 feet.
		George's Club is situated on 18 acres overlooking the Ancient and Loyal Towne of St. George in Rose Hill.
	www.hotel-discover.com /caribbean/269596.lodging.html (13308 words)

	Ships of Bermuda
		In 1775, the Pennsylvania committee of safety engaged the sloop "Lady Catherine" Capt George Ord master, with 40 men as delegation to Bermuda to trade powder of St George's for exemption from the embargo.
		A pass from Gov Bruere for the vessel, if she cannot provisions for Bermuda in NY, to go to VA for them, on the grounds that the people of Bermuda are in the greatest want for bread particularly, and are in danger of dread and dire famine.
		The Friendship's last voyage began at Bermuda and she was cleared for New York but James Cox the master had a pass from the Governor of Bermuda to go to Virginia, and deponent believes she was bound there when captured.
	www.rootsweb.com /~bmuwgw/ships7.htm (8330 words)

	Forbes Clan origins are in Aberdeen-shire, Scotland
		This Francis Forbes was born on Smith's Island in St. George's Harbour, Bermuda and raised in the historic Town of St. George.
		He was the second and surviving son of Edward Forbes, of Oakhill and Cronkbane, near Douglas, and Jane, eldest daughter and heiress of William Teare, of Corvalla and Ballabeg, Ballaugh.
		As a Lord of the Admiralty, Forbes refused to sign the death warrant of Admiral John Byng in protest at the harshness of the sentence, and as a consequence of this disagreement with his colleagues retired from the Board of Admiralty on 6 April.
	www.treasuresofbritain.org /ForbesClan.htm (8776 words)

	Bermuda Geography
		8 of these (Ireland Island North, Ireland Island South, Boaz Island, Watford Island, Somerset Island, Bermuda Island, St George’s Island and St David’s Island) are linked by bridges to form a continuous fishhook shaped area of land, 22 miles in length and only 2 miles across at its widest point.
		Bermuda lies 570 miles from the coast of North Carolina and is surrounded by the blue waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
		This is the Bermuda which most locals and guests are familiar with; many of the other islands are uninhabited or mere rocks.
	www.bermuda4u.com /Essential/bermuda_geography.html (191 words)

	AllRefer.com - Bermuda : History (Caribbean Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Reputedly the first person to set foot on the islands was the Spanish navigator Juan de BermUdez (1503–11), but they remained uninhabited, despite visits by the Spanish and English, until Sir George Somers and a group of colonists on their way to Virginia were shipwrecked there in 1609.
		The harbor of St. George was a base for privateers during the War of 1812, and the island was a center for Confederate blockade runners during the American Civil War.
		AllRefer.com - Bermuda : History (Caribbean Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Bermuda-history.html (340 words)

	CLIA - Cruise Line International Association
		George's is the easternmost of Bermuda's nine parishes.
		While you probably think of the Bermuda Triangle, or maybe even Bermuda shorts when you think of Bermuda, in actuality, Bermuda stands more for picturesque towns, lovely weather year round, and the ultimate tourist destination of the very well-to-do.
		In fact, Bermuda is in the Western Atlantic Ocean, about 650 miles off the coast of North Carolina, and just under 800 miles away from New York City!
	www.cruising.org /planyourcruise/wwdest/overview.cfm?recordID=42 (362 words)

	Documents on the Capture of the Chesapeake
		By the Honorable GEORGE CRANFIELD BERKELEY, Vice Admiral of the White, and Commander--in-Chief of His Britannic Majesty's ships and vessels employed in the river St. Lawrence, along the coast of Nova Scotia, the Islands of St. John and Cape Breton, the Bay of Fundy, and at and about the island of Bermuda, or Sommers' islands:
		Cape Henry then bearing northwest by west, distance three leagues, the communication, which appeared to be her commander's object for speaking the Chesapeake, he said he would send on board; on which I ordered the Chesapeake to be hove to for his convenience.
		On the arrival of the officer he presented me with the enclosed paper (No. I.) from the captain of the Leopard, and a copy of an order from Admiral Berkeley, which another officer afterwards took back, to which I gave the enclosed answer, (No. 2.) and was waiting for his reply.
	www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/Leopard.html (362 words)

	The Mariners' Museum : Birth of the U.S. Navy
		George Cranfield Berkeley, Vice Admiral of the White, and commander in chief of his majesty's ships and vessels, employed in the river St. Lawrence, along the coast of Nova Scotia, the Island of St. Johns and Cape Breton, the Bay of Funday, and at and about the Island of Bermuda, or Somers Island.
		Given under my hand, at Halifax, Nova-Scotia, the 1st day of June, 1807.
		Messages Exchanged between the Chesapeake and the Leopard, June 22, 1807
	www.mariner.org /usnavy/08/08f.htm (362 words)

	Bermuda's World Heritage Town of St. George
		Jennifer Smith, Premier of the Bermuda Government, represents St. George's North, one of the two electoral districts in the Parish.
		George's Parish in Bermuda; Georgetown in the Cayman Islands, Georgetown of Guyana in South America and St. George's of Grenada in the Caribbean.
		This is why St. George is most often shown wearing a white tabard with the red cross of the crusaders and is the patron saint not only of England but also Boy Scouts (as St. George was a hero of Lord Baden - Powell), various places in Spain and elsewhere.
	bermuda-online.org /seetown.htm (5031 words)

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