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The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies - 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [25]; The Death or Glory Boys - 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")
August 1800: O'Neill: extinct 1841: subsidiary title of the Earl O'Neill: Viscount Limerick [217] 29 December 1800: Pery: extant: created Earl of Limerick in 1803 Viscount Avonmore [217] 30 December 1800: Yelverton: dormant 1910 Viscount Charleville [217] 1800: Bury: extinct 1875: created Earl of Charleville in 1806 Viscount Bantry [217] 29 ...
This is an alphabetical list of the names of all ships that have been in service with the Royal Navy, or with predecessor fleets formally in the service of the Kingdom of England or the Commonwealth of England. The list also includes fictional vessels which have prominently featured in literature about the Royal Navy.
The German, [24] the French and the British Commonwealth armies used the name "Tommy" for British soldiers. "Tommy" is derived from the name "Tommy Atkins" which had been used as a generic name for a soldier for many years (and had been used as an example name on British Army registration forms). The precise origin is the subject of some debate ...
46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions 1800-1802; 47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions 1794-1795 and 1803-1815; 48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalion 1803-1814; 49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) (Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot - 2 Battalions 1813-1814; 50th (West Kent) Regiment of Foot - 2 ...
This category is for given names from England (natively, or by historical modification of Biblical, etc., names). See also Category:English-language given names , for all those commonly used in the modern English language , regardless of origin.
A military adventurer who made his fortune and name in India with the Marathas. Jacob Van Braam: 1729–1792 1741–1779 United Kingdom: A Dutch sword master and mercenary in British service. An officer under Lawrence Washington, he is also credited with training his younger half-brother George Washington. George Hanger, 4th Baron Coleraine ...
This name seems to originate from a time when ordinary people were still not using surnames in the modern way. A native Cornishman who had left Cornwall for another part of Britain or Ireland was given the name "Cornish", i.e. the Cornishman. In "A Dictionary of British Surnames", P.H. Reaney (1976), the following entries and dates are to be ...