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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy Oxford University Press, p. 496, Book (par view) James, William Milbourne (1926). The British Navy in Adversity: A Study of the War of American Independence, Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd, London, p. 459, Url —— (1948). The influence of sea power on the history of the British people
A royal guard or the palace guard, is a group of military bodyguards, soldiers or armed retainers responsible for the protection of a royal family member, such as a king or queen, or prince or princess.
The King's Guard is the name given to the contingent of infantry responsible for guarding Buckingham Palace and St James's Palace (including Clarence House) in London.The guard is made up of a company of soldiers from a single regiment, which is split in two, providing a detachment for Buckingham Palace and a detachment for St James's Palace.
The Royal Guards at Washington Place. The Royal Guard of the Hawaii National Guard is an Air National Guard ceremonial unit which is uniformed in a manner similar to the royal bodyguard of the Kingdom of Hawaii of the late 19th century. [1] The last remaining Royal Guard unit of Hawaiian Kingdom was abolished after the monarchy fell during the ...
Captain Frederick Marryat CB FRS [1] (10 July 1792 – 9 August 1848) [2] was a Royal Navy officer and novelist. He is noted today as an early pioneer of nautical fiction, particularly for his semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy (1836). He is remembered also for his children's novel The Children of the New Forest (1847).
Since release, Mackeson has become a writer of books about racing, writing under his own name and also as Rupert Collens. Bet Like a Man (2001) is a novel about the cloning of a Derby winner. He also writes for the Racing Post and runs a mobile bookshop and art gallery which operates on British racecourses. [5] [6]
1632 (novel) 1633 (novel) 1634: The Baltic War; 1634: The Bavarian Crisis; 1634: The Galileo Affair; 1635: The Papal Stakes; 1636: Seas of Fortune; 1636: The Kremlin Games; 1636: Commander Cantrell in the West Indies; 1636: The Devil's Opera; 1812: The Rivers of War; 1824: The Arkansas War; 1862 (novel) 1882: Custer in Chains; 1901 (novel) 1920 ...
In the books she is a young woman, aged 22 in the first novel, of marked beauty and competence. In the film, though similarly competent to her book equivalent, she is an elderly woman, and a widow. Gloriant, Duke of Bruuyswijc Gloriant: The protagonist of one of the four medieval Dutch dramas contained in the Van Hulthem Manuscript. [9] Dorian ...