James River

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12 mentions 8 recordings first heard Feb 2025 last heard 23 Aug ↓3 this month

Major tidal river in eastern Virginia flowing past Williamsburg and into the Chesapeake Bay region.

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UnknownA Short History of the United States · American Leaders and Heroes - Wilbur F Gordy · 6:01:50 · 23 Aug
…He therefore transferred his army across the James River and attacked the city from the south.…
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UnknownA Short History of the United States · American Leaders and Heroes - Wilbur F Gordy · 53:01 · 23 Aug
…After resting here, they sailed up the river and named it the James after James I, King of England.…
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Don WildmanAmerican History Hit · Civil War Battle Of The Ironclads · 0:35 · 13 Aug
…It is the morning of march ninth, eighteen sixty two, here in eastern Virginia as a heavy mist rolls across the brown waters at the mouth of the James River.…
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Professor Peter C. MancallNot Just the Tudors · Pocahontas & the Virginian Venture · 11:45 · 22 Jun
…And then they would go up what becomes the James……
Professor Peter C. MancallNot Just the Tudors · Pocahontas & the Virginian Venture · 11:11 · 22 Jun
…They go up the river that's now the James.…
John Hagedorn1001 Adventure and Mystery Stories For The Road · A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE PYRATES (CH 3 PT 2) PLUS THE TRUE S... · 14:34 · 8 Feb
…After the wounded men were pretty well recovered, the lieutenants……
John Hagedorn1001 Adventure and Mystery Stories For The Road · A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE PYRATES (CH 3 PT 2) PLUS THE TRUE S... · 4:38 · 8 Feb
…The 17th of November, 1718, the lieutenant sailed from Kecoughtan……
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