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...eath, Franklin County, Massachusetts. Named after Royal Governor [[William Shirley]]. Abandoned in 1754. |width="50%"|[[Image:.jpg|300px|thumb|left|Fort Shirley (1)]] ...

...ennsylvania. Named Fort Shirley by Governor Morris after General [[William Shirley]], chief of British forces in North America. Abandoned as a fortification i |width="50%"|[[Image:.jpg|300px|thumb|left|Fort Shirley (3)]] ...

...eace" in 1726. They named the fortification [[Fort Burnet]] for Governor [[William Burnet]]. In 1741 the fortification was expanded by adding stone walls with ...and garrisoned with some 1700 British regular and colonial troops. General Shirley also built [[Fort Ontario]] on the other side of the river and [[Fort Georg ...

...walls. And they made sketches of Louisbourg’s defences, which they gave to Shirley. Shirley raised a force of more than 4,000 New Englanders, commanded by William Pepperell, for an expedition against Louisbourg. The colonial army would be ...

...ventually had three sons and four daughters: George Washington Custis Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, Robert Edward, Mary, Agnes, Annie, and Mildred. ...t the application form, it was delivered to the desk of Secretary of State William H. Seward, who, assuming that the matter had been dealt with by someone els ...