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• Huntingdon
  ...r and which stood until the Second World War, when it was scrapped for the war effort.
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• Muckle Flugga
  ...nd David Stevenson in 1854, originally to protect ships during the Crimean War. First lit on 1 January 1858, it stands 64 feet high, has 103 steps to the ...t location, nothing had been done by the start of 1854. During the Crimean War, the government urged the commissioners to set up a light on Muckle Flugga
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• Moscow
  Ayrshire County Council suggested that "during the Crimean war there were various refugees and prisoners located in the neighbourhood, and James Shaw records that "a generation ago Russian prisoners of war were located between Galston and Fenwick, at a place called Moscow".<ref>Sh
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• Hartlepool
  ...re decline in heavy industries and shipbuilding following the Second World War caused periods of high unemployment until the 1990s when major investment p During the English Civil War another Scottish army occupied Hartlepool, this time in support of the Parl
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• Chobham
  |picture caption=Chobham war memorial and cannon ...mp, which Queen Victoria visited before the men marched off to the Crimean War.
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• Southampton
  ...outhampton was designated No. 1 Military Embarkation port during the Great War<ref name=Rance/> and became a major centre for treating the returning wound In 1642, during the English Civil War, a Parliamentary garrison moved into Southampton.<ref name="RancePP71">{{ci
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• Wantage
  During the Civil War, Royalist troops were stationed in Wantage. ...a number of Victoria Crosses, including his own gained during the Crimean War.
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• Coatbridge
  ...s put to included armour plating for British ships fighting in the Crimean war.<ref name="Miller, Thomas Roland 1958 p.36">Miller, Thomas Roland (1958). '
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• Berwick-upon-Tweed
  ...wickshire]], from which womb it was untimely ripp'd. It was indeed before war and conquest separated it from its county, the [[county town]] of [[Berwick ...nglish kingdom of [[Northumbria]], the area was central to historic border war between the Kingdoms of England and Scotland for centuries; the last time i
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• Retford
  ...d on bronze plaques are the names of those who were killed in Second World War. ...from the Russians during the Siege of Sevastopol at the end of the Crimean War. A plaque on side states 'Captured 1855 Sevastopol'.
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• Royal Tunbridge Wells
  ...england-wiltshire-12757984 | title=Wootton Bassett to get 'Royal' title in war dead honour | date=16 March 2011 | accessdate=16 March 2011 | publisher=BBC ...ghty wound"; the town also received 150 Belgian refugees. The Second World War affected Tunbridge Wells in a different way – it became so swollen with r
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• Marlow
  ...people of Marlow, largely due to the efforts of local resident and Crimean War veteran General George Higginson, after whom Higginson Park is named.<ref>[
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• Aldershot
  In 1854, at the time of the Crimean War, the heath land around Aldershot was established as an army base with Alder ...zon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A2BIAR1V0PWO27 Roger Kennedy]</ref> Its post-war format, the '''Army Show''', was an annual event until financial circumstan
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• Union Flag
  ...ed ensign. However the Treaty of Paris in 1856 (at the end of the Crimean War) required the abolition of privateering, a long and (occasionally) noble tr
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• Spennymoor
  ...et Ground was the victim of a rogue V1 flying bomb during the Second World War. The blast was powerful enough to make a crater in the cricket ground, and ...Shafto family. Until Second World War there was a cannon from the Crimean War on display in the park, this was taken away to be melted down for munitions
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• Romsey
  Romsey changed hands several times during the English Civil War. Both Royalist and Parliamentary or Roundhead troops occupied and plundered ...for her pioneering work as a nurse and sanitary reform during the Crimean war and for laying the foundation of modern nursing. Florence is said to have h
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• Ormskirk
  ...nley, the seventh Earl, who was beheaded at Bolton in 1651 after the Civil War. His body is buried in one coffin and his head in a separate casket. ...h Listed Buildings [http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-386414-boer-war-memorial-in-victoria-park-ormsk] accessed 27 January 2012</ref> It is on th
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• Lewes
  ...between the forces of Henry III and Simon de Monfort in the Second Barons' War in 1264, at the end of which de Monfort's forces were victorious. The battl ...of [[Newhaven]] ended Lewes's period as a major port. During the [[Crimean War]], some 300 Finns serving in the Russian army captured at Bomarsund were im
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• Carlow
  ...linth. The basement contains cells and dungeons. A cannon from the Crimean War stands on the steps.<ref name="CarCou">{{cite web | title=Carlow Courthouse
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• Tralee
  ...nument of two cannons commemorating those Kerrymen who died in the Crimean War (1854–56) and the Indian Rebellion (1857). Tralee saw much violence during the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War in 1919–1923. In November 1920, the Black and Tans besieged Tralee in rev
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