Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The latter formalized the royal household, established the office of chief justiciar, [21] and made royal justice more accessible. [22] His marriage to Matilda of Scotland united the House of Normandy with the House of Wessex. A succession crisis arose when William Adelin, the King's only legitimate son, died.
This is a list of ships of the line of the Royal Navy of England, and later (from 1707) of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom.The list starts from 1660, the year in which the Royal Navy came into being after the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, up until the emergence of the battleship around 1880, as defined by the Admiralty.
There have been 13 British monarchs since the political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland on 1 May 1707.England and Scotland had been in personal union since 24 March 1603; while the style, "King of Great Britain" first arose at that time, legislatively the title came into force in 1707.
Amalgamated with the 86th in 1881 to become the Royal Irish Rifles which in turn became The Royal Ulster Rifles; 84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions 1794-1795 and 1808-1819; 85th Regiment of Foot (Bucks Volunteers) - 2 Battalions in 1801. Reduced to 1 Battalion in 1802. 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot - 2 ...
Newlands Manor, Hampshire, Milford, family seat, c. 1900. Admiral Sir William Cornwallis, GCB (20 February 1744 – 5 July 1819) was a Royal Navy officer. He was the brother of Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British commander at the siege of Yorktown.
George's coat of arms as the Prince of Wales was the royal arms (with an inescutcheon of Gules plain in the Hanoverian quarter), differenced by a label of three points Argent. [104] The arms included the royal crest and supporters but with the single arched coronet of his rank, all charged on the shoulder with a similar label.
HMS Leda, launched in 1800, was the lead ship of a successful class of forty-seven British Royal Navy 38-gun sailing frigates. Leda ' s design was based on the French Hébé, which the British had captured in 1782. (Hébé herself was the name vessel for the French Hébé-class frigates.
Assassination attempt against King George III, 15 May 1800. January – Maria Edgeworth's first extended work of fiction, the pioneering historical novel Castle Rackrent, is published anonymously in London. 8 January – first soup kitchens open in London. [2] 13 January – Royal Institution granted a royal charter. [3]