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Fort George is a large 18th-century fortress near Ardersier, to the north-east of Inverness in the Highland council area of Scotland.It was built to control the Scottish Highlands in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745, replacing a Fort George in Inverness constructed after the 1715 Jacobite rising to control the area.
A fortress originally built to supress Highland clans and enforce rules preventing clansmen from wearing tartan could become a hub for production of Scotland's famous cloth. Fort George was ...
Gollanfield Junction was a railway station located at Gollanfield, to the west of Nairn, Scotland, (now in the Highland Council Area).Opened in 1855 by the Inverness and Nairn Railway, it was initially named Fort George after the military base nearby.
The 78th was linked with the 71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot, and assigned to district no. 55, with its depot at Fort George, near Inverness. [1] On 1 July 1881 the Childers Reforms came into effect, and the regiment ended its link with the 71st, and amalgamated with the 72nd Regiment, Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders to form the Seaforth ...
The Old Fort George had somewhat cramped lines of defence, with the tower of the original tower house still standing inside the newer bastioned rampart. [2] The governor of the fort, Major George Grant, had at his disposal two Independent Highland Companies, those of the Laird of Grant and the Master of Ross, as well as eighty or so regular troops of Guise's 6th Regiment who were reckoned ...
Fort George, Scotland from the air. It is the best preserved fort of its era in the British Isles. Fort Amherst, Chatham; Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight; Deal Castle, Deal, Kent; Derry city walls; Ebrington Barracks, Derry; Fort George, Highland; Berwick town walls, Berwick-upon-Tweed; Hilsea Lines, Fort Monckton, Gosport; Pendennis Castle ...
Fort George was a railway station at Ardersier, Highland, to the west of Nairn, Scotland, ... Highland Railway Fort George branch Terminus
A woman got a lot more than she bargained for when she stopped to give a treat to a friendly Highland cow at the Natural Bridge State Park in Virginia. ABC News shared a video on Monday, November ...