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Leeward took the plane to 530 mph (460 kn; 850 km/h) during the race, about 40 mph (35 kn; 64 km/h) faster than he had gone previously. [20] There was evidence of extreme stress on the airframe demonstrated by buckling of the fuselage aft of the wing and gaps appearing between the fuselage and the canopy during the flight (visible in high ...
The colony of the Leeward Islands was split in two in 1816, and the Governor of Antigua became the viceroy in Antigua, Barbuda and Montserrat. In 1833 the British Leeward Islands were reformed, and the Governor of Antigua represented the monarch in all of the British Leeward Islands until 1872, when he became the Governor of the new federal ...
American International Airways Flight 808 was a cargo flight operated by American International Airways (now Kalitta Air) that crashed on August 18, 1993 while attempting to land at Leeward Point Field at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. All three crew members on board survived with serious injuries.
In 1833, following the creation of the Federal Colony of the Leeward Islands, Dominica's governor was replaced by a lieutenant-governor, subordinate to the Governor-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands. 1833–1835: Charles Marsh Schomberg; 1835–1837: James Potter Lockhart (acting) 1837–1838: Henry Light; 1838: John Longley
At this point, however, fighting shifted to Leeward, where the British troops had equally limited success against the well-trained and organized forces of Cudjoe. [30] The maroon leader Cudjoe making peace with the planter John Guthrie. By the mid-1730s, warfare was proving costly to Maroons and British alike and was turning into an ongoing ...
Lieutenant-General Sir James Leith GCB (8 August 1763 – 16 October 1816) was a Scottish soldier who served in the British Army, commanding the 5th Division in the Duke of Wellington's Anglo-Portuguese Army at several critical battles during the Peninsular War between 1810 and 1813.
Sir Douglas James Jardine KCMG OBE (13 October 1888 – 11 December 1946) was a British colonial administrator, holding the posts of Governor of North Borneo, Sierra Leone and the Leeward Islands during his career.
Saint Kitts and Nevis (then the British Leeward Islands) Federalist: Washington [2] [3] 2 Albert Gallatin: Secretary of the Treasury 5 1801 Switzerland (then the Republic of Geneva) Democratic-Republican: Jefferson: 3 George W. Campbell: Secretary of the Treasury 5 1814 United Kingdom: Madison [13] 4 William J. Duane: Secretary of the Treasury ...