The 5th building of its kind in Aldershot, Cambridge Military Hospital opened the doors to pacients in July 1879. It was the first military hospital in the UK to receive battle casualties directly from the front of World War One and also the first to open a plastic surgery unit. The title it received came from His Royal Highness The Duke of Cambridge, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army at the time.
The illuminated medical minds of the time considered that the wind would sweep away any infection and clean the air. This explains its strategical location on the hill. But the thing that made it famous was not its location, but its supposedly mile long corridor.The wonderful castle is located on Pollepel Island in the Hudson River. In 1900, a businessman Francis Bannerman VI (1851–1918) bought the island in need of a storage facility for his growing surplus business. When Spanish-American War finished, he bought 90% of the US army surplus. This included also a large quantity of ammunition so he decided to provide a safe location for storage. Next spring, he began to build an arsenal on Pollepel. It was built in the style of a castle more as a giant advertisement for his business.The island and buildings were bought by New York State in 1967, after the old military merchandise had been remove. Today, the unique castle is a ruin, victim of vandalism and societycarelessness.
The city of Bonifacio was founded as a fortress by and subsequently named after Boniface II of Tuscany in 828. He had led a naval expedition to suppress the Saracens of North Africa and returned to build an unassailable fortress and naval base from which the domains of Tuscany could be defended at the outermost frontier. Most of the citadel postdates the 9th century or is of uncertain date but Il Torrione, a round tower, was certainly part of the original citadel.
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