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Football clubs

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Holyhead Hotspur F.C. Holyhead Hotspur Football Club () is a football club based in Holyhead, Anglesey playing in the Cymru North. The team's first choice strip is burgundy shirts, burgundy shorts and white socks. The second choice strip is all blue. Holyhead H ...
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Pietà Hotspurs F.C. Pietà Hotspurs Football Club is a Malta, Maltese Association football, football club based in Pietà, Malta, Pietà, founded in 1968, the club currently plays in the Maltese Premier League. History Pietà Hotspurs had their league debut on 23 O ...
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Tottenham Hotspur F.C. Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, commonly referred to as Tottenham () or Spurs, is a professional football club based in Tottenham, London, England. It competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. The team has playe ...
* Victoria Hotspurs F.C.


Vehicles

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General Aircraft Hotspur The General Aircraft GAL.48 Hotspur was a military glider designed and built by the British company General Aircraft Limited, General Aircraft Ltd during World War II. When the British airborne forces, airborne establishment was formed in 1940 ...
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Hawker Hotspur The Hawker Hotspur was a Hawker Henley redesigned to take a Boulton-Paul semi-powered four gun turret. It was designed in response to Air Ministry List of Air Ministry specifications, Specification F.9/35, which required a powered turret as the ...
, a WW2 fighter *''Hotspur'', British Railways class 7 "Britannia" locomotive 70011 * HMS ''Hotspur'', any of several British ships *Hotspur Land Rover, predecessor to the
Land Rover Tangi The Land Rover Tangi is a type of armoured vehicle, based on the Land Rover chassis and used in policing in Northern Ireland. They were used by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and are currently used by its replacement, the Police Service ...
, an armoured vehicle used by police in Northern Ireland


Other uses

* Hotspur, nickname of English knight Sir Henry Percy (1364–1403) **Sir Henry Percy as depicted in Shakespeare's ''
Henry IV, Part 1 ''Henry IV, Part 1'' (often written as ''1 Henry IV'') is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written no later than 1597. The play dramatises part of the reign of King Henry IV of England, beginning with the battle at ...
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The Hotspur ''The Hotspur'' was a British boys' paper published by D. C. Thomson & Co. From 1933 to 1959, it was a boys' story paper; it was relaunched as a comic in October 1959, initially called the ''New Hotspur'', and ceased publication in January 19 ...
'', a former British boys' comic *''Hotspur'', a three-issue Eclipse comic book series *
Hotspur, Victoria Hotspur is a locality in south west Victoria, Australia. The locality is in the Shire of Glenelg, west of the state capital, Melbourne. At the , Hotspur had a population of 45. The former 'Rising Sun Hotel' is heritage listed as it is consider ...
, a locality in Australia


See also

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Hornblower and the Hotspur ''Hornblower and the Hotspur'' (published 1962) is a Horatio Hornblower novel written by C. S. Forester. It is the third book in the series chronologically, but the tenth by order of publication, and serves as the basis for one of the episodes o ...
'', a Napoleonic naval warfare novel, centered on a fictional HMS ''Hotspur'' {{disambiguation