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Hace 5 días · The Falklands Saga describes the history and legal status of the Falkland Islands in four A4 volumes, with illustrations, tables of population and shipping, and a compendium of hundreds of ...
Hace 4 días · The English captain John Strong made the first recorded landing in the Falklands, in 1690, and named the sound between the two main islands after Viscount Falkland, a British naval official. The name was later applied to the whole island group.
Hace 5 días · It had been settled for her life on his widow Katharine, daughter of Sir Edward Cary and sister of the first Viscount Falkland. She died in 1635, (fn. 80) and in the same year we find this manor in other hands, though her son Edward Longueville retained Little Billing.
Hace 4 días · Falkland Islands, internally self-governing overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the South Atlantic Ocean. It lies about 300 miles northeast of the southern tip of South America and a similar distance east of the Strait of Magellan. The capital and major town is Stanley, on East Falkland.
Hace 5 días · Lord William Manners, son of second Duke of Rutland, 1728–33; Lucius Charles Cary, seventh Viscount Falkland, 1733; George Robinson, hairdresser, 1772–97; Peter Frederick Robinson, architect, 1797–1800.
Hace 3 días · He removed his residence to Raby-castle, in the bishopric of Durham, and was afterwards knighted, from which time he acted a conspicuous part in public affairs, and was greatly favored by king Charles I. But in the year 1642, the king being offended at his forwardness in the prosecution of the earl of Strafford, he was removed from ...
Hace 5 días · The Falklands War of 1982 remains a defining event in the histories of the United Kingdom and Argentina. For Britain, the conflict reaffirmed its sovereignty over the islands and demonstrated its military resolve; it showed that despite its decline, Britain remained a first-rank military power and a force for good.
