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George, Duke of Clarence, brother to King Edward IV and husband of Isabel, Duchess of Clarence. On 18 February 1478, George, Duke of Clarence was executed in the Tower of London . Having been found guilty of high treason in parliament, King Edward IV— Clarence's brother—ordered a private execution, probably by way of drowning in a butt of ...
Alexander's most immediate legacy was the introduction of Macedonian rule to huge new swathes of Asia. At the time of his death, Alexander's empire covered some 5,200,000 km 2 (2,000,000 sq mi), [261] and was the largest state of its time. Many of these areas remained in Macedonian hands or under Greek influence for the next 200–300 years.
Alexander Caldwell Jones was an American lawyer, journalist, diplomat, and Confederate States Army officer during the American Civil War. Presidential pardons for ex-Confederates from Virginia and West Virginia, published in the Wilmington (N.C.) Daily Dispatch , Jan. 10, 1867
George, Duke of Clarence, brother to King Edward IV and husband of Isabel, Duchess of Clarence. On 15 April 1477, a widow, Ankarette Twynho, was forcibly removed from her home in Frome , Somerset , by a squad of men in the service of George, Duke of Clarence , brother of King Edward IV .
Tried and sentenced to death, but sentence commuted to life imprisonment. Millington spent his final years in Jersey and died in 1666. [64] 45 George Fleetwood: Alive Brought to trial and sentenced to imprisonment in the Tower of London. He may have been transported to Tangier. Died c. 1672. [65] 46 John Alured: Dead Died in 1651 [66] 47 Robert ...
Cleitus the Black (Ancient Greek: Κλεῖτος ὁ μέλας; c. 375 BC – 328 BC) was an officer of the Macedonian army led by Alexander the Great.He saved Alexander's life at the Battle of the Granicus in 334 BC and was killed by him in a drunken quarrel six years later.
George and Nicholas shared the same tutors but studied in adjoining rooms. They followed the course of the Academy of the Russian General Staff, their tutors being distinguished professors. Their English teacher, Charles Heath, had once been tutor to their uncles, Grand Dukes Sergei and Pavel. Both brothers spoke and wrote perfect English. From ...
Alexander the Great Receiving News of the Death by Immolation of the Indian Gymnosophist Calanus - Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne - 1672. He was seventy-three years of age at time of his death. [22] When the Persian weather and arduous travels had weakened him, he informed Alexander that he would prefer to die rather than live as an invalid.