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23 de abr. de 2024 · In The Shuttle, the naïve Rosalie Vanderpoel, is harangued and beaten into submission by her husband, Sir Nigel Anstruthers, into relinquishing her inheritance, money he has no access to without Rosalie's authorisation.
5 de may. de 2024 · Fourteen years later, Campbell became the second wife of George Cornwallis-West, a writer and soldier previously married to Jennie Jerome, the mother of Sir Winston Churchill. Notwithstanding her second marriage she continued to use the stage name "Mrs Patrick Campbell".
Hace 6 días · The parish of Hordle is situated west of Lymington upon the shores of Christchurch Bay, stretching back inland for a distance of four miles. It contains 3,854 acres, of which 1,653¼ are arable, 1,345 permanent grass, 452¼ woods and plantations and 3 land covered with water.
24 de abr. de 2024 · Under the command of Lord Charles Cornwallis, the British then set about pacifying the rest of South Carolina. This sparked a bloody regional civil war, as the state's Patriot and Loyalist militias brutalized one another in the South Carolina backcountry.
Hace 4 días · The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, forming part of the King's Division. In 1702, Colonel George Hastings, 8th Earl of Huntingdon, was authorised to raise a new regiment, which he did in and around the city of Gloucester.
11 de may. de 2024 · The combined American and French troops under Washington, Rochambeau, Lafayette, and Wayne pinned down the British in Yorktown, and Cornwallis’s dramatic surrender on October 19, 1781 led to...
Hace 6 días · In the damp woods west of Guilford Courthouse, hub of an isolated little farming community on the main road through North Carolina, some 4,400 American troops, in all kinds of uniforms and country clothes, waited for battle. It was a long, suspenseful morning.
