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Hace 2 días · Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (né Wesley; 1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, soldier, and Tory politician who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as prime minister of the United Kingdom.
Hace 5 días · Company rule in India (sometimes Company Raj, from Hindi: rāj, lit. 'rule') was the rule of the British East India Company on the Indian subcontinent.This is variously taken to have commenced in 1757, after the Battle of Plassey, when the Nawab of Bengal Siraj ud-Daulah was defeated and replaced with Mir Jafar, who had the support of the East India Company; or in 1765, when the Company was ...
Hace 2 días · 1746. Sir Thomas Rawlinson. Grandson of Daniel Rawlinson, who was first cousin to Sir Thomas Rawlinson (Lord Mayor 1705-6), and father of Sir Walter Rawlinson (Alderman 1773-7). His daughter married Sir George Wombwell, 1st Baronet, and was ancestress of the succeeding Baronets.
Hace 5 días · Improvements to existing properties were made in 1706 when William, Lord Cheyne, granted a 99-year lease to John Clarkson of three cottages and gardens, 49 ft by 86 ft, on the north side of Lordship Yard, which adjoined Cheyne's land and had recently been bought from the Lawrence family: Clarkson was to demolish them and use the materials to build three new brick cottages the same size as the ...
Hace 4 días · The Queen was proclaimed in all the great Indian cities, as the successor to poor old dead-and-gone "John Company," November 1, 1858. The East India House, in Leadenhall Street, was sold with the furniture in 1861, and pulled down in 1862. The handsome pile of the East India Chambers now occupies its site, and the museum was transfered to ...
Hace 6 días · In 1798, Lord Wellesley, a fervent imperialist, succeeded Sir John Shore as Governor-General. During the combat, rockets were used on several occasions. One of them involved Colonel Arthur Wellesley, later known as the First Duke of Wellington.
Hace 4 días · Los orígenes de los poderes cambiapieles warg de los Stark. El linaje Stark se remonta posiblemente a 8000 años atrás. De El Mundo de hielo y fuego, en el capítulo El Norte: Las leyendas y la historia nos cuentan que los Stark de Invernalia han gobernado gran parte de las tierras que se encuentran al norte del Cuello desde hace ocho mil ...
