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The Rats of Tobruk hold an identifiable place within the ranks of returned servicemen, particularly in Australia, where there is the Rats of Tobruk Memorial in Canberra. On 22 March 1944, the original members of the Rats of Tobruk formed the North Bondi Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia and it is still known in modern ...
The family owned extensive property in the area of present-day Red Hook. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Her descendants include Humphrey Bogart , [ 9 ] British television presenter Clare Balding , [ 10 ] Al Fagaly , [ 2 ] Tom Brokaw , Governor Howard Dean , [ 11 ] Royal Baking Powder Company president Joseph C. Hoagland (1841-1899) and Grammy-winning musician ...
3rd Duke of York 1411–1460: Edward IV 4th Duke of York 1442–1483 r. 1461–1470, 1471–1483: Edmund Earl of Rutland 1443–1460: George Plantagenet Duke of Clarence 1449–1478: Richard III 1452–1485 r. 1483–1485: Elizabeth of York 1444–c. 1503: John de la Pole Duke of Suffolk 1442–1492: Henry VII 1457–1509 r. 1485–1509 ...
The 9th Division held Tobruk not for eight weeks, but for eight months, during which time three separate relief campaigns by the main Allied force in Egypt failed. [52] Axis propagandists described Morshead as "Ali Baba Morshead and his 20,000 thieves", and branded the defenders of the port as the " Rats of Tobruk ", a sobriquet that they ...
James and Mary Fidler Peter Fidler (16 August 1769 – 17 December 1822) was a British surveyor , map-maker , fur trader and explorer who had a long career in the employ of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) in what later became Canada .
Elizabeth Tuttle was born in 1645 and baptized in November 1645 in New Haven as the eighth of twelve children born to William and Elizabeth Tuttle. [1] Their twelve children were John, Hannah, Thomas, Jonathan, David, Joseph, Sarah, Elizabeth, Simon, Benjamin, Mercy, and Nathaniel. [5]
Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, New York derives its name from the family, as well as Manhattan's Cortlandt Street and Cortlandt Alley. The town of Cortlandt to the north, in Westchester County, New York carries the family name as well. The Van Cortlandt House Museum was initially the residence of Frederick Van Cortlandt.
Aaron Lopez (born Duarte Lopez; 1731 – May 28, 1782) was a Portuguese-born merchant, slave trader, and philanthropist.Born in Lisbon into a converso family, he moved to British America, settling in the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.