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1886–87 Royal Arsenal F.C. Season
The 1886–87 in English football, 1886–87 English football season was the first in which the club that was to become Arsenal F.C., Arsenal Football Club competed. At the Dial Square workshop in the Royal Arsenal, Royal Arsenal, Kent (later London), munition workers agreed to expand the Dial Square Cricket Club to incorporate an amateur football team – Dial Square Football Club. Among the several workers who helped form the club, the men primarily responsible were David Danskin, Elijah Watkins and Fred Beardsley. The team played their first game on 11 December 1886 in Millwall against a Sunday league football, pub team called Eastern Wanderers, Dial Square won 6–0 with unknown goal scorers. Following their first match, the workers changed the club's name to Royal Arsenal Football Club; a club committee was formed as Danskin and Beardsley were voted Captain (sports), captain and vice-captain respectively. Royal Arsenal won their first home game 6–1 on Plumstead Common agains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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An arsenal is a place where weapon, arms and ammunition are made, maintenance, repair, and operations, maintained and repaired, stored, or issued, in any combination, whether Private property, privately or state-owned, publicly owned. Arsenal and armoury (British English) or armory (American English) are mostly regarded as synonyms, although subtle differences in usage exist. A sub-armory is a place of temporary storage or carrying of weapons and ammunition, such as any temporary post or patrol vehicle that is only operational in certain times of the day. Etymology The term in English entered the language in the 16th century as a loanword from french: arsenal, itself deriving from the it, arsenale, which in turn is thought to be a corruption of ar, دار الصناعة, , meaning "manufacturing shop". Types A lower-class arsenal, which can furnish the materiel and equipment of a small army, may contain a laboratory, gun and carriage factories, small-arms ammunition, sm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
