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Thames , river, c.160 mi (260 km) long, rising NW of Woodstock, S Ont., Canada, and flowing SW past London and Chatham to Lake St. Clair. It is navigable to Chatham, near which was fought (1813) the battle of the Thames (see Thames, battle of the ) in the War of 1812.

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Thames, Canada, New Zealand, UK, USA 1. A river in all four countries, those in Canada, New Zealand and the USA being named after the river in England.2. Canada (Ontario): renamed in 1792 from La Tranche.3. UK (England): the Romano‐British name Tamesis or Tamesa is thought to come from a Celtic root tam ‘dark’ to give the ‘Dark(‐coloured) River’. It may be, however, a pre‐Celtic name. In Oxfordshire it is known as the Isis, a form of regression to Tamesis.

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