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    Wolfgang William Romer (23 April 1640 – 15 March 1713) was a Dutch military engineer, born at The Hague. He was the third son, in a family of six sons...
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  • Romer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Wolfgang William Romer (1640–1713), Dutch/British military engineer Ole Rømer (1644–1710)...
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    originated in 1700 with the report by the English military engineer Wolfgang William Römer, who claimed there were "as many islands as there are days in the...
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    1701 to 1703, the fort was further expanded. It was designed by Wolfgang William Romer, the chief engineer of British forces in the American colonies,...
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    Lambertus Romer (1680 – 1754) was a British military engineer. He was the son of Wolfgang William Romer, a Dutch engineer who came to England with William of...
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    by the Abenaki during King Philip's War. It was rebuilt. During King William's War, a raiding party of French and their native allies attacked and largely...
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    largest city in the region, now called Portland, Maine. Colonel Wolfgang William Römer, an English military engineer, first reported in 1700 that the bay...
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    April 22 – Mariana Alcoforado, Portuguese nun (d. 1723) April 23 – Wolfgang William Romer, Dutch military engineer (d. 1713) April 26 – Frederick, Count of...
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    Historical Magazine records that the shoal was named after Colonel Wolfgang William Romer, who sounded the waters of New York Bay in 1700 on order of the...
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    1701, Colonel Wolfgang William Romer, the chief military engineer for North America, came to Boston to fortify the harbor. Castle William was improved...
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    Fort William and Mary was a colonial fortification in Britain's worldwide system of defenses, defended by soldiers of the Province of New Hampshire who...
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    William Atwood, William Smith, Peter Schuyler, Abraham de Peyster, Samuel Staats, Robert Walters, Sampson Shelton Broughton, Wolfgang William Romer,...
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    quartermaster general in charge of the Holsteiner Fortifications Service, Wolfgang William Romer, fell out of favour with the King for having hired unsuitable foreign...
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  • (One of the earliest maps naming the river Royal was a 1699 map by Wolfgang William Romer on which it was spelled "Roiall River.") This stream and its vicinity...
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    off future attacks. The village was again destroyed in 1690 during King William's War by a combined force of 400-500 French and Indians in the Battle of...
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    responsibilities by Queen Anne. The governor immediately dismissed Colonel Wolfgang William Römer, the imperial engineer who had responsibility for maintaining the...
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    Countess Fauconberg, daughter of Oliver Cromwell (b. 1637) March 15 – Wolfgang William Romer, Dutch military engineer (b. 1640) March 17 – Juraj Jánošík, Slovak...
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  • New Castle. Both Fort William and Mary and Fort William figured in the American Revolution. On 14–15 December 1774 Fort William and Mary was raided twice...
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    palisaded fort in New Casco on Casco Bay in 1698 at the conclusion of King William's War. Fort Casco was built at the behest of Wabanakis who desired a convenient...
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  • Countess Fauconberg, daughter of Oliver Cromwell (b. 1637) March 15 – Wolfgang William Romer, Dutch military engineer (b. 1640) March 17 – Juraj Jánošík, Slovak...
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