Porto Bello (Williamsburg, Virginia)
Porto Bello was the hunting lodge of the last Royal Governor of the British Colony of Virginia, John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore. The name commemorates the battle of Porto Bello, a 1739 British naval victory in Panama. Lord Dunmore fled to Porto Bello to escape the early stages of the American Revolution in Williamsburg, Virginia. He later boarded a British ship lying at anchor near Porto Bello in the York River.
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Porto Bello (Williamsburg, Virginia)
Porto Bello was the hunting lodge of the last Royal Governor of the British Colony of Virginia, John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore. The name commemorates the battle of Porto Bello, a 1739 British naval victory in Panama. Lord Dunmore fled to Porto Bello to escape the early stages of the American Revolution in Williamsburg, Virginia. He later boarded a British ship lying at anchor near Porto Bello in the York River.
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Porto Bello was the hunting lo ...... stricted access to Camp Peary.
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Porto Bello, photograph taken approximately 1900
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Porto Bello, Queens Creek, Cam ...... Williamsburg, Williamsburg, VA
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Porto Bello was the hunting lo ...... Porto Bello in the York River.
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Porto Bello (Williamsburg, Virginia)
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