• Port Royal Sound is a coastal sound, or inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, located in the Sea Islands region, in Beaufort County in the U.S. state of South...
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    force captured Port Royal Sound, South Carolina, between Savannah, Georgia and Charleston, South Carolina, on November 7, 1861. The sound was guarded by...
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    the 27th and final ship of the class. Port Royal was named in honor of the two naval battles of Port Royal Sound, South Carolina, one during the American...
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    was Jean Ribault, who referred to the name of the sound and the island as Port Royal, or royal port in French. After the Charlesfort settlement failed...
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  • Port Royal is the former capital city of Jamaica. Port Royal or Port Royale may also refer to: Port-Royal-des-Champs, an abbey near Paris, France, which...
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    Naval Hospital Beaufort. Port Royal takes its name from the adjacent Port Royal Sound, which was explored and named by Frenchman Jean Ribault in 1562. Ribault...
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    William Hilton, who in 1663 identified a headland near the entrance to Port Royal Sound, which mapmakers named "Hilton's Headland." The island features 12...
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    of Port Royal Sound. Built with slave labor during 1861, the fort was to defend against a Union blockade of one of the south’s most important ports at...
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  • Atlantic Ocean as Port Royal Sound. S.C. Highway 170 crosses the Broad River on a 1.7-mile bridge, connecting Beaufort and Port Royal with southern Beaufort...
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    refloated and returned to service. In July 1814, however, she sank in Port Royal Sound during a heavy storm. Twenty-one of her crew drowned. Refloated once...
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    theorist: Lt. Alfred Thayer Mahan. The joint Army-Navy task force captured Port Royal Sound on 7 November, winning for the Union what Du Pont called "the most...
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  • Okatie takes its name from the nearby Okatee River, an estuary of the Port Royal Sound. The headquarters of the Beaufort-Jasper Water and Sewer Authority...
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    Parris Island is a district of the city of Port Royal, South Carolina on an island of the same name. It became part of the city with the annexation of...
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  • Pamlico Sound in North Carolina Pine Island Sound near Cape Coral, Florida Plum Island Sound in Plum Island, Massachusetts Port Royal Sound in Beaufort...
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    Peninsula. Its largest port is Valdez, at the southern terminus of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. Other settlements on the sound, which contains numerous...
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  • the world where jubilees regularly occur [see Mobile Bay Jubilee]) Port Royal Sound part of Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States, The Lowcountry...
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    on 1 November with devastating results. The combined force secured Port Royal Sound on 7 November 1861 after a furious four-hour battle. Wabash led the...
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    The Port Royal Experiment was a program begun during the American Civil War in which former slaves successfully worked on the land abandoned by planters...
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    marshes of the Port Royal Sound Basin, Callawassie Island is a major supporter of the state-of-the-art Maritime Center, run by the Port Royal Sound Foundation...
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    American Civil War began. In November of that year, the Union attacked Port Royal Sound and soon occupied Beaufort County and the neighboring Sea Islands....
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    protection from winds and heavy seas. Princess Royal Harbour was Western Australia's only deep-water port for around 70 years until the Fremantle Inner...
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    Robert Sandford both made voyages to Port Royal Sound and vicinity. In July 1666 Sanford entered Calibogue Sound between Hilton Head and Daufuskie. It...
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  • landed at the site on the May River in May 1562, before moving north to Port Royal Sound. There, on present-day Parris Island, South Carolina, Ribault left...
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    Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island (category Port Royal Island)
    abolitionists such as Frances Gage and Clara Barton. Union forces captured Port Royal Sound in 1861, and Parris Island became a coaling station for the Navy. This...
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    day campaign turned back McClellan's thrust, Port Royal shifted operations to the North Carolina Sounds. She was part of the Union Naval force which reconnoitered...
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    mission to establish colonies at Ochuse (Pensacola Bay) and Santa Elena (Port Royal Sound). The plan was to land everybody at Ochuse, with most of the colonists...
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  • of the South Carolina coast. Woodward volunteered to remain in the Port Royal Sound vicinity and live among the Cusabo Indians, to establish relations...
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    is related to the modern load. Larboard sounds similar to starboard and in 1844 the Royal Navy ordered that port be used instead. The United States Navy...
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    Francis DuPont's expedition to South Carolina waters which captured Port Royal Sound on 7 November; took possession of Beaufort, South Carolina, on 9 November;...
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  • port-royal (intentionally written without capitalization and with the "-" between "port" and "royal") is a Genoa, Italy-based electronica and post-rock...
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