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1 day ago · Major-General George Gordon Cunliffe (1829–1900), Bengal Staff Corps; ... General George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon; Major-General James Gordon;
6 days ago · The Most Noble Order of the Garter was founded by Edward III of England in 1348. Dates shown are of nomination or installation; coloured rows indicate sovereigns, princes of Wales, medieval ladies, modern royal knights and ladies, and stranger knights and ladies, none of whom counts toward the 24-member limit.
4 days ago · The regiment’s 5th Battalion fought at El Alamein in 1942, before joining the invasion of Sicily in 1943. It landed in Normandy in June 1944 and saw action at the battles of Caen and Falaise (July-August 1944).
Jun 23, 2024 · Lord William Gordon was a younger son of the Duke of Gordon who, according to Flora Fraser, has been of the Hamilton milieu at Naples, and continued the friendship in England - he was at a dinner party at 23 Piccadilly, the Hamilton's London home, when news of the victory at Copenhagen arrived.
4 days ago · George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) was a prominent Romantic poet. His prodigious sexual appetite spawned (probabaly true) rumors of homosexuality and incest. Lady Caroline Lamb described him as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know."
4 days ago · The National Library of Jamaica’s (NLJ) holdings constitute the most comprehensive collection of Jamaican documentary offering an invaluable representation of Jamaica’s history and heritage.
2 days ago · The Fleet was one of the prisons burnt by the insane rioters of Lord George Gordon's mob, in 1780. The polite rioters sent a notice the night before that the work must be done, but delayed it some hours, at the request of their restricted friends.
