Newport Harbour

Newport Harbour has been mentioned more than a dozen times throughout the RSS channels we monitor. This location appears to be especially popular on the channel 'Orange County's High School Sports Blog' where it has more than a dozen mentions. As seen in the chart below, Newport Harbour had the highest popularity figure in January, 2017.

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Peter Harrison, Newport’s Master Colonial Architect

[...] example being the temple-shaped Redwood Library, perched like an acropolis overlooking Newport Harbor. The Redwood Library, built about 1749 and designed by Peter Harrison, still functions as a [...]

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Identifying the French Landing Site in Newport

[...] century). This seems to be the most logical conclusion as the area is close to both Newport harbor and the site of the French camps. But is it correct? The Destouches Map (more formally, the [...]

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French Soldiers Who Died at Newport During the Revolutionary War

[...] at the Newport hospital on March 28, 1781. Gilles Gauchet, sailor on Le Jason, drowned in Newport Harbor on December 26, 1780. Jean Gaudet, of Le Jason, drowned at Newport on March 21, 1781. Louis- [...]

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A German U-Boat in Newport Harbor During World War I

[...] during its maiden voyage to America in September of 1916. German sailors on board U-53 in Newport Harbor (Naval War College Museum) The combat submarine U-53, also on its first war patrol after [...]

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The Prisoner-of-War Camps at Forts Getty and Wetherill in Jamestown: Reeducating World War II German POWs with the Best ...

[...] Wetherill had been the site of a battery in the Revolutionary War to defend the entrance to Newport Harbor. In the late 1800s it was replaced by one of the so-called Endicott fortifications armed with [...]

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