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Thomas Garth (Royal Navy)
Captain Thomas Garth (10 December 1787 – November 1841) was a British naval commander during the Napoleonic Wars. Garth, whose seat was Haines Hill at Hurst in Berkshire, was the son of Charles Garth MP for Devizes and the government agent for the colonial provinces of South Carolina, Georgia and Maryland. He was also a nephew of General Thomas Garth, Colonel of the first dragoons and Principal Equerry to George III. Career Garth became a naval commander on 3 March 1804 and was promoted to captain in January 1808. In June 1809 was given the command of the 38-gun frigate HMS ''Imperieuse'', with which he subsequently sailed in an expedition against Antwerp. After the reduction of Flushing, Garth was engaged in various operations on the river Scheldt. On 16 August 1809, whilst again in command of the ''Impérieuse'', Garth in ascending the Scheldt after the other frigates, entered by mistake the Terneuse, instead of the Baerlandt channel, and became in consequence exposed to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haines Hill
Haines may refer to: *Haines (surname), ''includes partial list of people with the surname'' * Haines (character), a character in James Joyce's ''Ulysses'' Places Antarctica * Haines Glacier, Antarctica * Haines Mountains, mountain range in Antarctica Australia *Haines, South Australia, a locality on Kangaroo Island *Hundred of Haines, a cadastral unit in South Australia Canada * Haines Junction, Yukon, town in Yukon Territory, Canada :*Haines Junction Airport United States * Haines, Alaska, city in Haines Borough, Alaska, USA :*Haines Airport, an airport in Haines, Alaska, USA :*Haines Seaplane Base, a seaplane base in Haines, Alaska, USA * Haines Borough, Alaska, USAHaines, California * Haines, Oregon, town in Baker County, Oregon, USA * Haines City, Florida, city in Polk County, Florida, USA * Haines Mission, an alternative name for Fort William H. Seward, Alaska, USA * Haines Falls, New York, USA, town in Greene County, New York, USA * Haines Township, Pennsylvania, town in Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magazine (artillery)
Magazine is the name for an item or place within which ammunition or other explosive material is stored. It is taken originally from the Arabic word "makhāzin" (مخازن), meaning 'storehouses', via Italian and Middle French. The term is also used for a place where large quantities of ammunition are stored for later distribution, or an ammunition dump. This usage is less common. Field magazines In the early history of tube artillery drawn by horses (and later by mechanized vehicles), ammunition was carried in separate unarmored wagons or vehicles. These soft-skinned vehicles were extremely vulnerable to enemy fire and to explosions caused by a weapons malfunction. Therefore, as part of setting up an artillery battery, a designated place would be used to shelter the ready ammunition. In the case of batteries of towed artillery the temporary magazine would be placed, if possible, in a pit, or natural declivity, or surrounded by sandbags or earthworks. Circumstances might ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garth Hunt
Garth may refer to: Places *Garth, Alberta, Canada *Garth, Bridgend, a village in south Wales :* Garth railway station (Bridgend) *Garth, Ceredigion, small village in Wales *Garth, Powys, a village in mid Wales :* Garth railway station (Powys) *Garth Hill, The Garth, Garth Hill or Garth Mountain, a mountain near Cardiff, Wales *Garth, one of many other minor place names in the United Kingdom Buildings and structures *Garth (Guilsfield), a historic house in Guilsfield, Montgomeryshire, UK *Castle Garth, a medieval fortification in Newcastle upon Tyne, England *Garth Pier, a Grade II listed structure in Bangor, Gwynedd, North Wales *Garth Castle, home to Clan Stewart of Atholl, north-west of Aberfeldy, Scotland Arts and entertainment * ''Garth'' (comic strip), published in the British newspaper ''Daily Mirror'' from 1943 to 1997 *Planet Garth, setting of David Brin's novel ''The Uplift War'' People and fictional characters *Garth (name), a list of people and fictional characters w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Thomas Godsal
Major Philip Thomas Godsal (1850–1925), was a Welsh soldier, landowner, marksman, historian and inventor of a gun mechanism. He was born at Plas Fron, Wrexham, Denbighshire in 1850, the son of Philip William Godsal, of Iscoyd Park, Flintshire, and Charlotte Harriet Garth. He was the grandson of Thomas Garth RN a Napoleonic era naval commander and a great grandson of William Best, 1st Baron Wynford. His children included Commander Alfred Godsal who was killed commanding during the Second Ostend Raid on May 9, 1918. Marksmanship Godsal started his military career in 1869 with the 52nd Light Infantry in Malta and became Inspector of Musketry. He enjoyed a considerable career at Bisley Ranges, and was chosen to be part of the British team at various international matches including against America in 1882, where Britain won. By 1880 Godsal had left the army and became adjutant of the Eton College Volunteers and remained in this post until 1897. Godsal was a famous shot in his da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flintshire
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Frederick Maitland
General Frederick Maitland (3 September 1763 – 27 January 1848) was a British Army officer who fought during the American War of Independence, the Peninsular War and later served as Lieutenant Governor of Dominica. Life The youngest son of the hon. Sir Alexander Maitland and Penelope, daughter of Colonel Martin Madan and Judith Madan the poet, he was also the grandson of Charles Maitland, 6th Earl of Lauderdale and a first cousin of Rear Admiral Frederick Lewis Maitland (1779–1837). In 1779, the age of sixteen, Maitland joined the 14th regiment, serving as a Marine on HMS ''Union'' at the Great Siege of Gibraltar in 1781. He subsequently served in the West Indies on the staff of the quarter master-general, General Cuyler. He was promoted from Ensign to Brevet Major and also served as aide-de-camp to Sir Charles Grey at the relief of Nieuport on the Dutch coast in 1793. Maitland was engaged in two naval actions during this period; the first in 1793 involving the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant. The Sea has played a central role in the history of Western civilization. Geological evidence indicates that around 5.9 million years ago, the Mediterranean was cut off from the Atlantic and was partly or completely desiccated over a period of some 600,000 years during the Messinian salinity crisis before being refilled by the Zanclean flood about 5.3 million years ago. The Mediterranean Sea covers an area of about , representing 0.7% of the global ocean surface, but its connection to the Atlantic via the Strait of Gibraltar—the narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates the Iberian Peninsula in Europe from Morocco in Africa—is only wide. The Mediterranean Sea e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cargo Ship
A cargo ship or freighter is a merchant ship that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another. Thousands of cargo carriers ply the world's seas and oceans each year, handling the bulk of international trade. Cargo ships are usually specially designed for the task, often being equipped with crane (machine), cranes and other mechanisms to load and unload, and come in all sizes. Today, they are almost always built of welded steel, and with some exceptions generally have a life expectancy of 25 to 30 years before being scrapped. Definitions The words ''cargo'' and ''freight'' have become interchangeable in casual usage. Technically, "cargo" refers to the goods carried aboard the ship for hire, while "freight" refers to the act of carrying of such cargo, but the terms have been used interchangeably for centuries. Generally, the modern ocean shipping business is divided into two classes: # Liner business: typically (but not exclusively) container vessels (where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Cerberus (1794)
HMS ''Cerberus'' was a 32-gun fifth-rate sailing frigate, frigate of the Royal Navy. She served in the French Revolutionary Wars, French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars in the Channel, the Mediterranean, the Adriatic, and even briefly in the Baltic against the Russians. She participated in one boat action that won for her crew a clasp to the Naval General Service Medal (NGSM). She also captured many privateers and merchant vessels. Her biggest battle was the Battle of Lissa (1811), Battle of Lissa, which won for her crew another clasp to the NGSM. She was sold in 1814. French Revolutionary Wars ''Cerberus'' was launched in September 1794 by Henry Adams, of Bucklers Hard. Her first commander was Captain J. Drew, who took command of her in January 1795 for the Irish station. On 29 March 1795 she was sailing with HMS Santa Margarita (1779), ''Santa Margarita'' when the two engaged and captured the 18-gun ''Jean Bart'' in the English Channel. The Royal Navy subsequently too ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Cossack (1806)
HMS ''Cossack'' was a Royal Navy of a nominal 22 guns, launched in 1806 at South Shields, England. She was ordered in January 1805 as HMS ''Pandour'' and launched under that name but her name was altered to ''Cossack'' during 1806. She served throughout the Napoleonic War, but appears to have seen little action. She was broken up at Portsmouth in June 1816. Service She was rated as a 22-gun ship and was intended to mount that number of long 9-pounder guns on her main deck. However, she also carried eight 24-pounder carronades and two long 6-pounders on her quarterdeck and forecastle. By the time that Captain George Digby commissioned her in early 1807, the Admiralty added two brass howitzers to her armament, while exchanging her 9-pounders for 32-pounder carronades. It also increased her complement by twenty to 175 officers, men, and boys. ''Cossack'' was at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1807. She later shared in the prize money allotted for the capture of the Danish fleet. '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valençay
Valençay () is a commune in the Indre department in the administrative region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. Geography Valençay is situated in the Loire Valley. It sits at the end of a plateau. on a hillside overlooking the River Nahon. Valençay is part of Berry. History The commune was formed by the union of three settlements: the "Bourg-de-l'Eglise", the "Bas-Bourg" and what is called the "old quarter." The chateau is a part of the Loire Valley by virtue of the date of its construction and its dimensions, which give it a similar appearance to Chambord. A 12th century castle existed on this site, was demolished and construction of its replacement began in 1520, albeit slowly. The chateau was born in the 16th and 17th centuries by the Estampes family. Louis of Estampes, governor and baillif of Blois, undertook the building of the large round tower at the end of the entrance wing. He died in 1530, leaving the tower unfinished. The tower rises above the entry. Work on Val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand VII Of Spain
, house = Bourbon-Anjou , father = Charles IV of Spain , mother = Maria Luisa of Parma , birth_date = 14 October 1784 , birth_place = El Escorial, Spain , death_date = , death_place = Madrid, Spain , burial_place = El Escorial , religion = Roman Catholicism , signature = Ferdinand VII of Spain signature.svg Ferdinand VII ( es, Fernando VII; 14 October 1784 – 29 September 1833) was a King of Spain during the early 19th century. He reigned briefly in 1808 and then again from 1813 to his death in 1833. He was known to his supporters as '' el Deseado'' (the Desired) and to his detractors as '' el Rey Felón'' (the Felon/Criminal King). Born in Madrid at El Escorial, Ferdinand VII spent his youth as heir apparent to the Spanish throne. Following the 1808 Tumult of Aranjuez, he ascended the throne. That year Napoleon overthrew him; he linked his monarchy to counter-revolution and reactionary policies that produced a deep rift in Spain b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
