As the son of a country clergyman, he came from that wide social range from the lesser gentry to the middle classes which provided the Royal Navy with so many of its officers. He might be compared with his contemporaries on the flag list St Vincent, Duncan, Cornwallis, Keith, Gardner, ...
Switzerland lies in the central part of the Alps, a 500-mile-long European mountain range, which stretches westward from France's Riviera into what was northern Yugoslavia. Four main passes (Grimsel, Furka, St. Gotthard, and Oberalp) allow passage from Northern Europe across the Alps to Italy...
Semiaphis dauci (F., 1775) Although this species was recorded nominally by Theobald in his Plant-lice of Great Britain ( 1927), his species was in fact Dysaphis crataegi (Kltb.) (Hille RisLambers, 1934 ; Stroyan, 1963). The first genuine record of S.dauci in Britain is due to Mr...
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At one time the flag was shot away and fell down outside the fort. But Sergeant Jasper rushed out, seized the broken staff, and again set it up on the rampart. Meantime, General Clinton had landed on an island and was trying to cross with his soldiers to the further end of Sullivan'...
--Commercial interests dominated the growth of the empire Flag follows trade The best example was the British East India Company V. The rise and fall of the British Empire In 1583, English explorers discovered and took possession of the Island of Newfoundland ( now belongs to Canada ), helped...
On the coin, Una looks like Queen Victoria. Una is the companion and intended of the Redcrosse Knight. The Knight turns out to be St. George, the patron saint of England, whose Red Cross appears on the flag of England. Una and the Lion, Briton Rivière (1840–1920)The image of "Una...
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