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New London

noun

A town in southeastern Connecticut near Long Island Sound; an important whaling center in the 19th century.

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... returned to Huntingdon bay, there to wait for reinforcements. At this place, however, Tryon received orders to return to the White Stone; where, in a conference between Sir Henry Clinton and Sir George Collier, it was determined to proceed against New London with an ...

— The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 (of 5) • John Marshall

... furnishes the course for the intercollegiate races in which American college crews, with the exception of Harvard and Yale (which row on the Thames at New London) have rowed practically every year since 1895. The river is spanned at this point by one of the largest cantilever bridges in the world. It is 2,260 ft. long and 200 ft. above the water, and is the only bridge over ...

— The Greatest Highway in the World • Anonymous

... In the adjustment of capital and trade to an enforced industrial policy, the American people passed through a commercial crisis which paralyzed the flourishing sea-ports of the New England coast. Newburyport, Salem, Plymouth, New London, Newport, and intermediate places sank from lucrative commercial centres into insignificant towns. Manchester, Lowell, Fall River, Pawtucket, Waterbury and other New England cities on the other hand became great ...

— A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year - Volume Two (of Three) • Edwin Emerson

... spite of her gay garments and flaunting airs. But the fact that she had newly come to live at Holker Hall, the finest mansion in all that country-side, had uplifted her in her own sight, and puffed her out with pride, sending her forth at all hours into unseasonable places to show off her fine new London clothes. ...

— A Book of Quaker Saints • Lucy Violet Hodgkin

... he taught school with much success, being respected and loved by his pupils. He was teaching in New London, Connecticut, when the ...

— Stories of Later American History • Wilbur F. Gordy

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