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18 warships invaded Trinidad during the French Revolutionary Wars
Sir Ralph Abercromby was appointed the first British Governor of Trinidad and Tobago
Reginald Frontispiece Ltd
On leaving school in 1960, I worked in Fleet Street, in press photography. My interest in the printed image expanded to include vintage and antique prints. What was a collection became a business!
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Ferdinand de Lesseps - the man that suppressed an Isthmus
It was constructed by the Suez Canal Company under the supervision of Ferdinand de Lesseps (November 19, 1805 to December 7, 1894)
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A ball at the home of the Honourable Artillery Company
The oldest regiment in the British Army.
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Henry Addington was a Prime Minister and an 'East Indiaman'
When the West India Docks officially opened on 27 August, she became the first ship to enter the dock.
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Captain Cook the 'adopted son' of Tower Hamlets
This son of North Yorkshire, when he wasn’t at sea, spent much of his adult life in East London.
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The history behind the Glencoe Massacre of 1692
the Macdonalds were murdered by soldiers of the neighbouring clan Campbell
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Convention Parliament declare that in fleeing to France, James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch abdicated
William and Mary were proclaimed King and Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
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The launch of the Dreadnought battleship 'HMS Thunderer'
She was sold for 'scrap' in 1926
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Samuel Plimsole "The Sailor's Champion."
This line is known to this day as "the Plimsoll line."
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Fred Perry the British tennis legend and the history behind the sport
Fred Perry was 'cold shouldered' by the Lawn Tennis Club of Great Britain
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The history of Robert Devereux 2nd Earl of Essex
Robert Devereux was the last person to be beheaded in the Tower of London
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The history behind the Great Siege of Gibraltar
The longest siege in recorded British military history