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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HVG_castle-hill_Freshwater-Newfoundland-and-Lab.html
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In 1693 the French began construction of Fort Royal to guard the harbour at Placentia. When it was completed in 1703, several batteries and outworks supported the main fortifications. The defences, however, were precariously maintained th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HVF_castle-hill_Freshwater-Newfoundland-and-Lab.html
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Welcome to
Castle Hill
National Historic Site of Canada
By 1600, France and England dominated the European migratory fisheries to Newfoundland. Small-scale English settlements began in 1610, and in 1662 France established the royal c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HVE_battle-of-signal-hill_St.-Johns-Newfoundland-and-Lab.html
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This hill was the site of the decisive assault by British troops on the French lines, September 15, 1762, in the last phase of the battle in North America between the forces fo Great Britain and France. The victorious attack, led by Capta…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HVD_transatlantic-radio-signals_St.-Johns-Newfoundland-and-Lab.html
This marker is composed of two side-by-side plaques, one in English and the other in French.English
At Signal Hill on 12 December 1901, Guglielmo Marconi and his assistant, George Kemp, confirmed the reception of the first transatlantic radio sig…