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Topic: Wrights Hill Fortress

	Wilderness
		Long Hill's corps was composed of the divisions of R. Anderson, Heth and Wilcox, and his artillery was commanded by Col. R.
		Wright of the 6th corps, was to have moved forward on Warren's right, but owing to the dense thickets and the uneven surface of the ground, he was unable to connect with Griffin's line in time to carry out the original plan of attack.
		Hill advanced against this line, but received such a galling fire that he speedily retired and for the next two hours everything was quiet, except for the almost constant firing of the skirmishers.
	members.evansville.net /tlconner/wilderness.htm (3580 words)

	Wrights Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Wrights Hill is a highly visible feature seen from the eastern suburbs, central city and western suburbs.
		Wrights Hill has an extensive track network for walking, and there is a shared walking /mountain biking connection to the Polhill/Hawkins Hill ridge and the Makara Peak.
		Wrights Hill is one of the few places where road access is available to the top.
	www.doc.govt.nz /Explore/002~Tracks-and-Walks/By-Region/008~Wellington/Mountain-Walks/016~Wrights-Hill.asp (217 words)

	~~ WEEDBUSTERS \| Get involved in your region \| Regional awards \| Nominee ~~ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Wrights Hill Fortress was constructed as a 9.2” long range Counter Bombardment Battery during World War Two — to protect Wellington from the threat of bombardment by hostile warships.
		Following decommissioning of the Fortress, and the scrapping of the guns (1960) — the land reverted to gorse, scrub — and weeds.
		To conclude, the Wrights Hill Fortress Restoration Society Inc. is to be commended for its past and ongoing commitment to weed busting activities.
	www.weedbusters.org.nz /awards/Nominee.asp?id=9 (560 words)

	Tunnels in New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Public access to both ends but it is quite muddy (access is down the steps beside Kaikorai Valley Nurseries (between intersections with Ensor Street and Townleys Road) and also on the opposite side of road to the Caversham entrance of the current tunnel).
		Three tunnels on the Otago Central Rail Trail (former Otago Central Branch), ranging in length from 152 to 229 m.
		Conical Hill - 71 m, on the former Tapanui Branch.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tunnels_in_New_Zealand (1080 words)

	Text Only--Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In strong winds, hills were not needed to launch the machine, since the force of the winds would enable the machine to take off on the short starting track from level ground.
		While the Wrights and onlookers were discussing the flights, a sudden gust of wind struck the airplane and turned it over a number of times, damaging it badly.
		Orville Wright was unwilling to entrust the 1903 airplane to the National Museum in Washington, D.C., because of a controversy between him and the Smithsonian in regard to the history of the invention of the airplane.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/aviation/text.htm (17551 words)

	Wrights Hill Fortress Site Profile atCapital Defence
		About 1950 the Fortress Battery was put into care and maintenance with crews from Fort Dorset visiting weekly or biweekly to service and maintain the guns and equipment.
		The incorporated society's aims are "To restore and preserve the Wrights Hill Fortress as a historical monument for the benefit of the community."
		During a ceremony on Monday the 13th August 2001 at Parliament the Wrights Hill fortress Restoration Society was presented a group award by Conservation Minister Sandra Lee at the Conservation Awards 2001 held at Parliament.
	capitaldefence.orcon.net.nz /prfles/post1930/wrthil1.htm (701 words)

	wrights hill :: muellerworld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Built during World War Two, the Fortress consists of an underground network of tunnels, operation rooms and three gun emplacements.
		Broken windows resulted at the Fortress after the blasts.
		The Wright's Hill Fortress is only open four days a year:
	www.muellerworld.com /nz/wrights_hill (215 words)

	Wrights Hill Fortress: Fortress News
		The Fortress will open at 10 am and close at 4 pm.
		We are expecting several military vehicles to be present, and the Historical Re-enactment Society will be visiting from Auckland.
		Fortress opens at 10 am and closes at 4 pm.
	www.whfrs.org.nz /newsh.html (111 words)

	History Lessons
		What is not well covered is the Wright’s chief rival, Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906), who was a leading scientific figure in the United States in the latter nineteenth century.
		This action was, partly, what prompted Orville Wright in 1928 to lend the 1903 Flyer to the Science Museum in London as a gesture of protest regarding the Smithsonian's seeming unwillingness to give him and his brother, Wilbur, full credit for having invented the airplane.
		The fortress still lies abandoned as it was since 1945.
	www.64knights.com /components/history_lessons.htm (4675 words)

	The American Experience/The Wright Stuff/About The Program
		In fact, Wilbur and Orville Wright, while self-taught, were exceedingly serious aeronautical engineers-- painstaking, resourceful, highly creative, truly brilliant and brave, which makes their story all the more interesting.
		Wilbur and Orville Wright invent the airplane-- these two fellows who seem like the most ordinary people in the world, and yet who have these extraordinary talents bottled up inside them that are going to be played out during the course of this story.
		WILKINSON WRIGHT: He and a group of friends were playing ''shinney,'' which is sort of a street version of hockey, and Wilbur got hit in the mouth with a_ with a hockey stick, and knocked all of his front teeth out, and he was a_ he was a long time really recovering from that accident.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/wright/transcript.html (6795 words)

	Realms of Middle-Earth @ www.ezboard.com
		The fortress Dol Guldur was made by Sauron in the south of this land.
		This city, also called ‘Fortress of the Stars’ lies at the eastern border of Gondor, and though it used to be protected by many rangers from the south, it now lies in ruins after the War of the Rings.
		Set in the hills it is a great place to hide or defend yourself and times of need.
	p218.ezboard.com /brealmsofmiddleearth (2377 words)

	Royal Australian Artillery Association Of Tasmania Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		These guns were used to fire the Salutes on Windmill Hill in the 1870's.
		The Government previous to that time was supporting the Volunteer movement, and was supplying uniforms; but in 1870 no provision was made in the estimates for carrying on the Volunteer service of the colony.
		During that period regular drills were held, and the regular duties in the Corps were carried out with the same precision as they had been previously.
	tasartillery.o-f.com (3497 words)

	Wellington Macintosh Society Incorporated
		A small number of delegates decided to embark on a tour of the Wrights Hill Fortress, a Second World War Long Range Gun Battery built on the top of one of Wellington's many hills.
		As the threat lessened, the completion of the fortress was carried out at a more leisurely pace and was eventually completed in 1944.
		In 1958, the fortress was decommissioned by the army and the cut up guns were ironically sold to the Japanese as scrap metal.
	www.welmac.org.nz /conference.htm (831 words)

	History \| Insiders' Guide® North Carolina's Outer Banks, 26th Edition
		They built three small fortresses on the north end of their stronghold, reinforcing their position and to block all access through Croatan Sound.
		Many complained that the lifesaving service had two major flaws: They were only open for four months of the year, and the seven stations were too far apart, up to 15 miles in some cases, for the surf- men to adequately patrol the beaches on foot.
		The wreck of the Metropolis in January 1878, 4.5 miles south of the Jones Hill Station, was a fiasco of a rescue operation, with 85 lives lost because it took more than five hours for the lifesaving station to respond.
	www.insiders.com /outerbanks/main-history3.htm (2970 words)

	Coast Artillery Defences in New Zealand
		Better instruments were available for rangefinding and position-finding and a system of Fortress rangefinding was introduced to obtain accurate data for targets at extreme ranges.
		The fortress system could provide the necessary data for individual batteries in the area.
		The scheme proved very worthwhile and was a great asset from the point of view of trained personnel to man instruments, searchlights and guns in the precautionary period immediately before the war, and to have the batteries fully manned on the outbreak of war.
	riv.co.nz /rnza/hist/baigent1.htm (1915 words)

	Exploitz: national_park
		In Charlestown, visit the Bunker Hill Monument, the site of the first major battle of the American Revolution, the Charlestown Navy Yard, one of the nation's first naval shipyards and the USS Constitution, the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world.
		The rolling hills of this 1,347 acre park are covered with pine forests, deciduous woodlands, and prairie grasslands.
		Plans were made for a massive fortress and construction began in 1846, but the fort was never completed.
	www.exploitz.com /pages/national_park/index.shtml (15902 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		As part of a special section formed in 1892, his one balloon directed artillery fire during the Battle of San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War and reported the presence of the Spanish fleet at Santiago de Cuba Harbor.
		The Wrights' successes came to the attention of others, however, and President Theodore Roosevelt directed the Army to entertain bids for an aircraft in late 1907.
		I thought we already had one." In Wright and Curtiss aircraft early Army flyers began stretching aviation's limits with bomb-dropping, photography, and strafing while forming their first unit, the Ist Aero Squadron, on December 8, 1913.
	www.ranger95.com /airforce/history_air_force.htm (11063 words)

	DOC - 2001 Conservation Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Group winners were Eastbourne’s Mainland Island Restoration Operation and Little Blue Penguin Foundation, Wrights Hill Fortress Group, Forest and Bird’s Wellington community nursery, and the Makara Peak mountain bike group.
		In 1992 the Wrights Hill Fortress group was formed with the primary objective being to "restore and preserve the Wrights Hill Fortress as a historical monument for the benefit of the community"
		Please congratulate the Wrights Hill Fortress Restoration Society for working towards their ‘vision’ of the restoration and preservation of Wrights Hill Fortress as a historical monument.
	www.doc.govt.nz /Regional-Info/008~Wellington/003~Community/Conservation-Awards/099~2001-Winners.asp (2071 words)

	PHINEAS BIRD DIARY
		Wright arrived from Edisto and we went in boats to James Isle.
		Wrights division came to the landing and part of our pickets were withdrawn, making the picket line the same as it was before Wright landed.
		Miller Wright was wounded in the arm and after the engagement I helped him back to the hospital at Middleton.
	www.100thpenn.com /PhineasBirdDiary.htm (6486 words)

	Foote (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		While in Washington Stetson joined his company and brought those things that you was sop kind in sending to us, they were all in good condition with the exception of the apples the most of them having rotted.
		We are still in the camp from which I last wrote it being on the Virginia side of the Potomac and about three miles from the river there being a fine view of the capitol on a hill near by.
		Nearly every hill for miles around has a fort or earth work on it they being all mounted with heavy guns and garisoned by troops who we call feather bed soldiers as they remained here out of danger in guard barracks with plenty to eat while we were at the front.
	lserver.aea14.k12.ia.us /iacivilwar/Resources/foote.html (17763 words)

	Why a Web Fort? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Consequently my pages constitute a web fortress, guarding the harbour of personality from the sea of consciousness.
		Which is a slightly pretentious way of saying that I regard this web page as a peek into who I am, how I think and what I like.
		In reality the above constitutes the rationalisation that appealed to me. The fact that Wellington, my home town and birthplace, has a fortress above it and is a harbour city is no coincidence.
	www.khantazi.org /Why.html (480 words)

	WRIGHT'S HILL FORTRESS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Wright's Hill Fortress it is well worth your time.
		The next open day at Wright's Hill is 28 December, however there will not be a HRS display until Waitangi Day 2005.
		The main event of the year is Queen's Birthday with a HRS battle on the parade ground.
	www.hrs.org.nz /Gallery/Wrightshill2004.htm (197 words)

	Indicator Loop Stations and Harbour Defences, New Zealand
		The peculiar structure in the water in the foreground was actually the base for a diving board (the board itself was removed many years ago following a fatal accident).
		The house on the hill at the top of the photo belongs to Peter Jackson - of "Lord of the Rings" fame.
		Try also: Wrights Hill Fortress Restoration Group - all about Wrights Hill Fortress which was built in the 1940s as a long range coastal battery to protect Wellington city and environs from possible enemy attack and invasion from the Pacific in World War Two.
	home.iprimus.com.au /waldingr/nz.htm (1953 words)

	ValorStudios.com Originals ...
		David L. "Tex" Hill was one AVG pilot who joined the 23rd.
		He is shown standing in front of his Mustang with some of his ground crew after returning from a mission.
		Flight Lieutenant Pete Brothers is greeted by his bull terrier “Merlin” on returning to RAF Biggin Hill.
	www.valorstudios.com /OriginalsOtherArtists.htm (866 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Besides their Fashion was, not in great Bodies, and close Order, but in small Divisions and open Distances to make their onset; appointing others at certain spaces, now to relieve and bring off the weary, now to succeed and renew the Conflict; which argu'd not small experience, and use of Arms.
		The Hills and every Access he fortify'd with heaps of Stones, and Guards of Men; to come at whom a River of unsafe Passage must be first waded.
		The British Powers on the Hill side, as might best serve for shew and terrour, stood in their Battalions; the first on even Ground, the next rising behind, as the Hill ascended.
	www.humanities.ualberta.ca /emls/iemls/work/etexts/histbrit.txt (15641 words)

	greytop's guide toWellington Live: Recreation : Wrights Hill Fortress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This World War Two fortress is the only one of its type open to the public in New Zealand, albeit only four times a year.
		Located in the Wrights Hill reserve in Karori, amongst bush walks and picnic sites visitors can also enjoy panoramic views of the region from the top of Wrights Hill.
		The site is now maintained by the Wrights Hill Fortress Restoration Society and thanks to their efforts Open Day Visitors can roam the 620 metres of underground tunnels, view the engine room, shell stores, plotting rooms and huge gun emplacement where Gun No One used to stand.
	quik.co.nz /~edc/recreation/recreation1.shtml (255 words)

	:: Discovery Channel CA ::
		While not the fastest, the one carrying the most bombs, or even the one with the longer range, it and its crews where the toughest of the tough.
		Against very effective defenses, it could defend itself with some measure of success: loses where often high, but the Forts kept comming, and in so doing contributed to grind and wear down the opposition.
		Although there are many aircraft shown, both on the television show and the website, and the incredible advancements that led to their development, I feel hands down the top aircraft design of the past 100 years has to be the wright flyer.
	www.exn.ca /flight/flightpath/page.asp?num=6 (1667 words)

	www.WellingtonLive.co.nz + Greytop's Wellington Guide - Recreation : Historic Sites
		During the second world war a battery of 9.2 inch guns was installed at Wright's Hill Fortress to defend against any invasion by sea.
		Never fired in anger the guns were removed in the '60's but the emplacement pits and underground tunnels remain.
		The site is now maintained by the Wrights Hill Fortress Restoration Society, and open days are held but four times a year on public holidays.
	www.wnc.quik.co.nz /~edc/recreation/historicsites.shtml (847 words)

	Island Sites
		It was so hilly that the Major told his sons that the folks who lived down in the village by the shore should call it Hill Town.
		Dunns Hill Island Clippings, October 9 1998, Eleanor Adcock Dunn's Hill was named for the Dunn family who lived there for may years.
		Noble was the first to open a pit on the hill near the barn.
	members.shaw.ca /sjhswebmaster/sites.htm (5835 words)

	Tubeless Tyres - Are They Worth It? - Bikes - Mountain - New Zealand Mountain Biking - Vorb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Given seven hours to cut down a large tree, Lincoln is said to have spent the first six hours sharpening the axe.
		In my slightly fitter form, it takes about an hour to get from home to makara peak via the turbine and wrights hill (plus either deliverance or burrows ave).
		The other thing to remember is that the track down to the gully between wrights hill and the wind turbine is steep and (on the one off-camber high-speed corner on it) slippery (it's called the grovel - mostly because back in the day we used to ride up it, and it was a grovel).
	www.vorb.org.nz /ftopic-23338-previous.html (895 words)

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