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Beachy Head, battle of
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Beachy Head, battle of, 1690. Command of the Channel was of critical importance in 1690, when William III and James II struggled for control of Ireland and the French threatened to invade England as a diversion. In June, de Tourville put to sea with a French fleet of 78 vessels.
Torrington, commanding the joint Anglo‐Dutch fleet, was apprehensive. On 29 June the brunt of the action fell upon the Dutch, who lost six ships. Torrington withdrew to the safety of the Thames estuary. He was court‐martialled, but acquitted.
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Roger Beachy: A Leader in Revitalizing Plant Science.
Magazine article from: R & D; 11/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...financial support. In early 1991, Beachy and Fauquet made plans to remodel...into a drawer, however, when Beachy was offered the chance to head the Division of Plant Biology...Institute in La Jolla, Calif. Beachy and Fauquet then set up ILTAB...
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 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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TOMKINS NOW ALL BEACHY.(Sports)(Column)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 1/21/2004; 700+ words
; ...Tomkins said. The new Tomkins/Beachy team poses added excitement...Speedway. They will compete head-to-head with Johnson's...Fair track on Sundays. The Beachy team will continue to use Bicknell...Super DIRT series, Tomkins and Beachy plan to field a 358 small...
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Fighting the good fight: Scripps scientist battles famine with gene engineering. (breakthroughs in plant genetics by Roger Beachy, Scripps Research Institute's director of plant biology)
Magazine article from: San Diego Business Journal; 4/5/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...underdeveloped countries. Beachy had been a faculty member...offered him the chance to head the institute's new department...Despite his initial hesitancy, Beachy found he couldn't resist the challenge. It was Beachy's reputation as a researcher...
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Legends of the fall. (Beachy Head, England, a popular suicide spot)
Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...vulgar yellow of rapeseed. Beachy Head is divided from the other...pleasant land, and therefore Beachy Head has become a mecca for...patches of thrift on Seaford Head that smelled of chocolate, and on Beachy Head there were spikes of...
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The figure of the hermit in Charlotte Smith's Beachy Head.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...washer who patrols the cliffs of Beachy Head nightly, talking would-be suicides...movement of ascent to the summit of Beachy Head, an end that dramatically (and...Charlotte Smith intended to conclude Beachy Head with the figure of the hermit...
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 "Eastbourne Herald (Eastbourne, England)")
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GAGGED AND BOUND: BEACHY HEAD MURDER HUNT.
Newspaper article from: Eastbourne Herald (Eastbourne, England); 1/21/2004; 700+ words
; ...bound body was found at the foot of Beachy Head. Police believe the man may have...from anyone visiting or walking on Beachy Head last week who saw anything...eight-hour recovery operation at Beachy Head. The body is believed to have been...
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HM Coastguard: Pastoral care from Chaplaincy service assists in reducing incidents at Beachy Head.
M2 Presswire; 12/20/2006; 700+ words
; ...assists in reducing incidents at Beachy Head(C)1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...the number of fatal incidents at Beachy Head. During the past few years...fatalities associated with suicide at beachy Head. This is generally accepted...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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Beachy Dread; Fears for coastline as 500ft of cliff slips into sea.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 1/12/1999; 700+ words
; A MASSIVE landslip at Beachy Head has sent thousands of tons of chalk...big that it linked up the unmanned Beachy Head lighthouse with the Sussex coastline...said: "Chunks have been falling off Beachy Head for ages but never anything like...
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Beachy Head: the suicide's favourite
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 7/13/1997; ; 700+ words
; Beachy Head, the East Sussex beauty spot, has become...time scholar of the area, whose book Beachy Head is published in September, says that...sides. He has several theories about why Beachy Head holds such a lure for the unhappy...
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 "St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)")
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PLANT SCIENCE MUST DRIVE AGRICULTURE, SAYS HEAD OF NEW DANFORTH CENTER: `I HAVE A PASSION FOR SCIENCE.'.(News)(Profile\Donald Danforth Plant Science Center\Roger N. Beachy\Sidebar Story)
Newspaper article from: St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO); 8/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Danforth Plant Science Center. Beachy spent 13 years at Washington...proud to be back," said Beachy, 53, who had been a professor of biology and head of Washington University...a passion for science." Beachy wasted no time in describing...
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Beachy Head
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Beachy Head high chalk cliffs (575 ft/175 m), on the south coast of East Sussex, S England. The battle of Beachy Head, in the War of the Grand Alliance, was fought (1690) between an Anglo...
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Beachy Head, battle of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Beachy Head, battle of, 1690. Command of the Channel was of critical importance in 1690, when William III and James II struggled for control...
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Anne Hilarion de Cotentin Tourville, comte de
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...commander of the French fleet in the War of the Grand Alliance. His great victory over the English and the Dutch at Beachy Head (1690) probably marked the height of French sea power, but in 1692 he was defeated by the English and Dutch at La...
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Sussex
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...West Sussex. The South Downs—low, rolling hills that cross the county from east to west and terminate at Beachy Head on the English Channel coast—are the county's most notable geographical feature. The principal streams...
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François Louis Rousselet Château-Renault, marquis de
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...He escorted the deposed king of England, James II, to Ireland (1689), fought against the Anglo-Dutch fleet at Beachy Head (1690), and commanded the Franco-Spanish fleet that was destroyed (1702) at Vigo.
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