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1900 - 1909
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MARCH MAGAZINES

... rule, however, the ?? Cavalry are aii ecep- tion. Each regiment has at Queen's stanrdard aud three regimental st!tudards, or one for each squadron, all of crimson silk damask. Tliie Queen's standard bear6 tile Ro yal Arms, and the regimental standard the ...

HISTORY OF PORTSMOUTH

... wishes of all your good services a with that act of grace, which they have so n long and so earnestly pray'd for. In the s next place we must not, we cannot, omit to d congratulate your Majesty, and your Royal e Consort the Queen, in this jubilee of the ...

HISTORY OF PORTSMOUTH

... TH. BOOK 4-THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. A.D. 1714-THE QUEEN 1S DEAD, LONG LIVE THE KING. AiD. 1715-HOW THE JEWS CAME TO PORTSMOUTH AND WHAT THEY HAVE DOME FOR IT. CHAPTER Via On the Ist August, 1714, Queen Anne died, and Gearge 1st reigned in her stead. Whilst ...

HISTORY OF PORTSMOUTH

... 3 and as the procession proceeded Royal salutes w were fired. After the Queen had boarded S the yacht, the barge returned to the har- s bour for the King, who proceeded to Spit- S head with the same escort as the Queen and .with the same hwnours. He was ...

HISTORY OF PORTSMOUTH

... (GUARDSHIPr). West View of Portsmouth Dockyard, 1754. CAPTAIN (GUARD3UIW.) Naval officers was conducted on board ship by sehoolmasters, but the system being found deficient a Naval Academy was opened in 1 Portsmouth Dockyard in 1729 for the instruction in ...

HISTORY OF PORTSMOUTH

... th instead ol proceeding to weigh anchor -with c of that promptness so characteristic of the t men of the Royal Navv, the seamen St of the Queen Chailotte ran up the shrouds X t and gave three cheers, an example that was s followed by the rest of the ...

HISTORY OF PORTSMOUTH

... io years' forced service in the Navy. v e The impress officers had no mercy Their e, victims might be fathers of families ; women d and children might be otherwise dependent tt on them ; they might be seamen in the mo merchant service just returned from ...

HISTORY OF PORTSMOUTH

... was made for the Admiralty. It is 3 now in the Museum at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and is the finest and - largest model there. a t CHAPTERIV. 0 In the early part of the reign of Queen r Anne, in consequence of the increasing b population of ...

HISTORY OF PORTSMOUTH

... feast of St. Bartholomew. The show of Prizes are to be seen in Cheapside, at the sign oi the Queenes armes, the house of Hr. Dericke, Goldsmith, Servant to the Queen. This lottery was evidently one of great Magnitude, as, according to Stow. the draw- ing ...

HISTORY OF PORTSMOUTH

... Eastnev, named the cc ve Victoria Home, by special permission of, the x- Queen, in connection with a great develop- s rs ment of Methodist work in the Naval and ir Military Services, and the erection of a th handsome building in Penhale-road, Fratton, i ...

HISTORY OF PORTSMOUTH

... of St. Domingo, and the remains 1 of many were suspended on gibbets erected on thu sandy quai s at tbe entrance of Port I Royal Harbour, in the island of Jamaica. It c is thought that nearly the whole of thre I mutineers suffered by the laws of their ...

HISTORY OF PORTSMOUTH

... from 2s., accordiug to style. 3iilli-ery reno.o vated, atr The N~urse. Sick ziursing afords employment for many women. and widows ore specially preferred as mentilly nurses. 2vow, nursing i'J a wnok!ng, sy man's house is generally v'ry hard wvork, for ...