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Great Britain. Army (785)

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Whitmore was govenor of Cape Breton Island and the Island of St. John (Prince Edward Island). Administrative history unavailable. The University of Victoria Libraries Special Collections has a mandate to acquire military papers. The King's American Regiment was formed at Flat Bush, New York, under the command of Colonel Edmund Fanning (1739-1818), on December 11, 1776. The regiment was comprised of Loyalists from New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Isl...

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Great Britain (179)

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This historic document, considered by many to be the cornerstone of English liberty, was the result of demands made by the English barons at the beginning of the 13th century for rights and guarantees against the exactions of the m̀onarchy' in the person of King John. It consists of a preamble and 63 clauses. Also includes facsimile of Magna Carta from Salisbury Cathedral (acquired 1964). Treaty number eight, signed in 1899, included lands in northern Alberta, northwest S...

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Great Britain. Parliament (343)

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The Ashantee (also spelled Ashanti) Invasion of Britain's Gold Coast protectorates began in December 1872. British forces responded with their own expedition and invasion of the Ashantee nation in January 1874, resulting in the Battle of Amoaful and the destruction of Kumasi. With the execution of Charles I on January 30, 1649, the sole political agency in England was Parliament, although Oliver Cromwell and the New Model Army were the true power. The Assembly of Saints...

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Great Britain. Royal Navy (637)

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Richard Howe, Earl Howe, was born in London, England, on March 19, 1726, the son of Emanuel Scrope Howe (1699-1735) and Mary Sophia Charlotte von Kielmansegg (1703-1782). Around 1735, he joined the crew of the merchant ship Thames, and in July 1739 he joined the 40-gun Royal Navy ship Pearl . Howe then served on several ships in the Caribbean and off the South American coast. After being promoted to lieutenant in 1744 and post captain in 1746, he continued his military service in...

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Great Britain. Colonial Office (228)

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Following charges of mail fraud in 1922, Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) leader Marcus Garvey planned a world tour scheduled to begin in February 1923 to counter the negative publicity. Garvey's intentions provoked anxiety among British colonial officials which then put him and other UNIA members in British West African colonies under surveillance. The Straits Settlements was the collective name for the settlements of Singapore, Penang, Malacca, and Labuan...

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Great Britain. Admiralty (117)

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HMS Cleopatra operated out of Halifax during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, sailing as far south as the West Indies. Sir Robert Laurie became captain in August 1804 and in 1805 became renowned for his action against the superior French ship Ville de Milan. In 1764 Capt. James Cook was appointed marine surveyor of the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador by Sir Hugh Palliser, governor of Newfoundland. For the next three years Cook co...

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Great Britain. Ordnance Survey (208)

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Royal Society (Great Britain) (179)

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The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge began in 1645 when a group of eminent British thinkers started to meet regularly in London to discuss the new, experimental philosophies of science. Though the English Civil War and the Cromwellian Protectorate interrupted its meetings, the Society was formally constituted in 1660. Two years later King Charles II granted the Society its first charter. A second royal charter was granted in 1663 when the Society was given its official...

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Great Britain. Foreign Office (151)

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Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 (985)

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Queen Victoria was the only child of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She was born on May 24, 1819 at Kensington Palace in London and she became heir to the throne when her father died. In 1837, she became Queen at the age of 18. During the early part of her reign, she was influenced by two men: her first Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, and then her husband, Prince Albert, whom she married in 1840. Both men taught her much about how to...

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