... Counties Cup was won for the first time, and this success was repeated in each of the next four years. Among the many players who wore the blue and white jersey before the end of the last century, the most famous was Alan Rotherham, the England player and ...

... destroy ships of the British Fleet off the New England coast by this means. A quarter of a century later another American, Robert Fulton, produced a submarine which he suggested to Napoleon should be used as a secret weapon against Nelson's fleet. Napoleon ...

... Swansea business man, on reaching home after a narrow victory over England, found a strange wig in his overcoat pocket. So, to Edinburgh, fairest and most civilised City of the World where the ghost of Johnnie Knox still preaches sermons outside the pubs ...

... Excellency may well offer you as an appeasement to his anger. But take comfort; he will order your hasty departure from the world with regret; he is a kindly man at heart. Woe! lamented Wang, that I should have believed reports which were untrue. Alas ...

... which an epic mystery, a world-shaker of its kind, was to be written, and with a score of variations. Fraser Trenholme and Co. intended naming the vessel James B. Matthews, but on the outbreak of the Civil War they could find no use for her, and left her ...

... metaphorically to tap him on the shoulder and suspend his naval ambitions. He could be of irore use in other, ways. The rest is recent history. In the U.S. Naval Reserve, so ne- times with his own countrymen, sometimes with joint forces (he was with ...