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Rooke’s claim to the title came because he had challenged Tommy Chandler, the recognized champion, but Chandler had refused the bout. In the late nineteenth century, this was equivalent to vacating the title and Rooke subsequently claimed it for his own on July 17, 1872, though he made no attempt to prove his right in the ring until he was scheduled to meet Mike Donovan in Long Point, Canada.
George Rooke nació el 10 de noviembre de 1650 en el condado de Kent, Inglaterra. Poco se sabe sobre su infancia y juventud, pero se cree que provenía de una familia de clase media. Desde temprana edad, Rooke mostró un gran interés por la navegación y la estrategia militar, lo que lo llevó a enrolarse en la Marina Real Británica a una ...
Admiral Sir George Rooke, c. 1650-1709. A three-quarter-length portrait to the right of Admiral Sir George Rooke, Admiral of the Fleet. He wears a gold-braided red cloth coat with wide sleeves, grey-brown full-bottomed wig and a white neck-cloth. His right arm rests on the muzzle of a cannon and he holds a telescope in his left hand.
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history of Gibraltar. …War of the Spanish Succession, Sir George Rooke captured Gibraltar for the British, and Spain formally ceded it to Britain under the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. The Spanish nevertheless made several attempts to retake Gibraltar from Britain, most notably in a protracted but unsuccessful military siege….
6,500,000. Rooke — British Tier VII battleship. Battlecruiser designs K2 and K3, presented in 1920, were deemed unsuitable due to their enormous dimensions. Later, the designers presented Project J3—a smaller version of the ship armed with nine 381 mm guns housed in three turrets. Her displacement had been reduced by 10,000 tons.
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