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Hace 6 días · Queen Victoria indicated that she would like to present the medals in person and she presented 185 medals out of the 472 gazetted during her reign. Including the first 62 medals presented at a parade in Hyde Park on 26 June 1857 by Queen Victoria, nearly 900 awards have been personally presented to the recipient by the reigning British monarch.
Hace 2 días · Empire. During her reign, the British Empire underwent an enormous expansion. ... Queen Victoria's funeral took place on February 4, 1901. In accordance with her wishes, ...
15 de may. de 2024 · William Ewart Gladstone was a statesman and four-time prime minister of Great Britain (1868–74, 1880–85, 1886, 1892–94). Gladstone was of purely Scottish descent. His father, John, made himself a merchant prince and was a member of Parliament (1818–27). Gladstone was sent to Eton, where he did not.
Hace 4 días · Kindred spirits: Queen Victoria by photographer Alexander Bassano, 1882, and Vincent Namatjira’s portrait of Gina Rinehart. Bassano, Namatjira. Women like us are more interested in hegemony than ...
17 de may. de 2024 · Originally a German cruise ship, the ship was seized by the Nazi regime and used to transport troops during the Second World War. She was captured by the British at the end of the war and renamed the Empire Windrush. In 1948, she happened to stop over at Kingston, Jamaica, to pick up some British servicemen. Since the ship was not full, passage ...
Hace 2 días · Louis Philippe I (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850), nicknamed the Citizen King, was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, and the penultimate monarch of France. As Louis Philippe, Duke of Chartres, he distinguished himself commanding troops during the Revolutionary Wars and was promoted to lieutenant general by the age of nineteen, but he ...
9 de may. de 2024 · Reading Time: < 1 minute Queen Victoria maintained a close connection with Canada throughout her reign, owing in part to her father, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn. Prince Edward played a pivotal role in the formation of Canada, and his contribution is commemorated by the naming of Prince Edward Island province after him. Victoria’s reign as queen coincided...
