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3 days ago · The Protector, with loud acclamation, was enthroned, being seated in the chair of state: on the left hand thereof stood the Lord Mayor, Tichborn, and the Dutch Embassador; the French Embassador, and Robert Earl of Warwick on the right.
1 day ago · At 9 o'clock the Emperor gave audience to Fra Egidius, who presented a credence from the Pope, and a letter of the Earl of Carpe, the Emperor's ambassador with the Pope, and made an elegant oration urging his majesty to accept a truce for 18 [months] with marvellous vehemence of words (for the said Egidius is an Austin Friar, and one of the most famous preachers that have been in Italy for ...
3 days ago · Indian victories. Clive had no formal military training. He first came to prominence for his heroic defence of the Carnatic’s capital of Arcot in October 1751 against the French. This helped establish British power in southern India.
5 days ago · Robert, Earl of Leicester, to Lord Cobham, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. [1575], Sept 8. Has been oft about to write, but always at the time of the departure of Cobham's messengers.
2 days ago · Based on a memoir by Maria von Trapp (née Kutschera), Robert Wise’s version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical absolutely holds up six decades later. The songs are moving, Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer are charming, and the threat of Nazism is never not terrifying. A League of Their Own (1992)
4 days ago · In 1568 Robert, Earl of Leicester, a younger son of the Duke of Northumberland, persuaded the queen to confirm the claim of Anne, Countess of Warwick, to the annual rent, and to grant the reversion of the manor and park of Cheylesmore 'now disparked' in fee farm to the mayor and bailiffs.
4 days ago · Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979), commonly known as Lord Mountbatten, was a British statesman, naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family.
