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Charles James Napier

1786

	Sir Charles Napier (1782-1853)
		Napier was five times wounded: his leg was broken by a musket shot, he received a sabre cut on the head, a bayonet wound in the back, severe contusions from the butt end of a musket, and his ribs were broken by a gunshot.
		Napier then suddenly sallied forth in three columns, moved by forced marches, surprised the tribes, captured thousands of cattle, most of their grain supply, forced the enemy into the hills, and waited at the entrances to the passes for his guns and commissariat.
		Napier ordered that the native officers, non-commissioned officers, and private sepoys of the 66th regiment should be marched to Ambala, and there struck off the rolls, and that the colours should be delivered to the loyal men of the Nasiri Ghurkha battalion, who should in future be called the 66th or Ghurka regiment.
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	Charles Napier (naval officer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Napier hoisted his flag in February 1854 in the steam ship of the line HMS Duke of Wellington (131), his subordinate commanders being the Rear-Admirals Arthur Lowry Corry, second in command, Henry Ducie Chads, third in command, and James Hanway Plumridge, commanding the scouting forces.
		Napier's force, which was augmented in June by a French fleet sent by Napoleon III, though impressive on paper, was radically unsuited to operations in the Baltic and he was hampered by contradictory sets of orders from the Admiralty.
		Napier was elected MP for Southwark in February 1855, and carried his dispute with the Admiralty to the floor of the House of Commons.
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	NAPIER « Streets of South Melbourne
		Charles Napier (1786-1860) was the second son of Captain Charles Napier, RN, and grandson of Francis, 6th Lord Napier.
		Napier’s last mission of the Napoleonic wars was to land troops at the mouth of the River Scheldt to guard against the French advance into Belgium.
		Napier was elected MP for Southwark in February 1855, and carried his dispute with the Admiralty to the floor of the House of Commons.
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	Officer
		An Officer and a Gentleman An Officer and a Gentleman is a Robert Loggia and Louis Gossett Jr.
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		Sabbatical officer In a students' union a Sabbatical officer is a full-time officer elected by the students from their m...
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	Charles James Napier -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sir Charles James Napier (August 10, 1782 - August 29, 1853) was a (The people of Great Britain) British (A general officer of the highest rank) general and (Click link for more info and facts about Commander-in-Chief in India) Commander-in-Chief in India.
		A statue in honour of Sir Charles Napier is placed on a pedestal at (A square in central London where there is a memorial to Admiral Nelson) Trafalgar Square, (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London.
		General Napier should not be confused with his cousin Admiral (Click link for more info and facts about Charles Napier (naval officer)) Charles Napier (naval officer) of the same name.
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	Prologue - Diplomacy and Duels on the High Seas
		Napier certainly could not consider the terms he offered as terms of equality when he looked around him and saw the number of British vessels in our waters and on our coasts, all of whom might be opposed to a single frigate if not more force than his own.
		Charles Gordon (1778?–1816) was a native of Kent County, Maryland, whose naval career began in 1799 as a midshipman and included service in the Quasi-War with France and the Barbary wars in Tripoli.
		Sir Charles Napier (1786–1860) was the eldest son of the Honorable Charles Napier (1731–1807) and cousin to Gen. Sir Charles Napier who participated in the British assault on Craney Island and Hampton, Virginia, in June 1813.
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	Napier
		# John Napier (1550–1617), mathematician, the inventor of the logarithm in Western mathematics.
		Sir George Thomas Napier (1784--1855), son of George, Commander-in-Chief of the Army in the Cape Colony
		Napier earthquake, a 1931 earthquake in New Zealand.
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	Sailing Ships of the Royal Navy, I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Charles Frederick PAYNE and James NUTHALL, boatswain's mate, in the four-oared gig to attempt to place one of Fulton's carcasses across the bow of of the extreme vessel of the enemy's line.
		Her officers and crew were afterwards employed in the defence of the Isla de Leon.
		The commissioned officers, except for the captains, were confined in the cabin of an Indiaman with the ports and stern windows planked in.
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	Memorials and Monuments in Portsmouth City Centre (The Napier Pillar)
		Admiral Charles Napier was a benefactor in the Horndean area and used to live at Merchistoun Hall, off the London Road.
		Charles Napier, of Merchistoun Hall, County Stirling, and was born on the 6th.
		In 1813, Captain Napier, in a most masterly manner and without loss, took possession of the island of Ponza, notwithstanding that in the attempt he was exposed to the fire of four batteries and a tower.
	www.memorials.inportsmouth.co.uk /city-centre/napier.htm (1052 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Obituaries \| Captain Lennox Napier
		Under Napier, the Rorqual, part of the 1st flotilla, based in Alexandria, was in the thick of things from late in 1941 until early 1944.
		Under Napier, one of Rorqual's most important successes was the sinking of a German tanker in the central Mediterranean in summer 1943.
		Napier joined the navy in 1926, as a Dartmouth cadet at the usual age of 13.
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	BIOGRAPHIES OF SOME OBSCURE CONTRIBUTORS
		A cavalry officer in the army of Charles X of France, he was wounded in Paris fighting against the insurgents of July 1830.
		The Library of Congress catalogue conflates Charles Beckwith Lohmeyer and John Charles Beckwith (born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1789; in Denmark as an army officer between 1805 and 1808; served in the Peninsula, lost a leg at Waterloo; lived chiefly in the Vaudois valley in Piedmont 1827 to his death in 1862).
		Charles Mackenzie was born in 1788, probably in Scotland, the eldest son of Kenneth Francis Mackenzie (1748-1831) and his wife Anne Townsend.
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Charles James Napier
		A quote for which Napier is famous involves a delegation of Hindu locals approaching him and complaining about prohibition of Sati, often referred to at the time as suttee, by British authorities.
		The most important epoch in Sir Charles Napier's life was yet to come, and in 1842, at the age of 60, he was appointed as Major-General to the command of the Indian army within the Bombay presidency.
		A statue in honour of Sir Charles Napier by George Cannon Adams is on a pedestal in Trafalgar Square, London.
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	The Foundations of Naval History: John Knox Laughton, the Royal Navy and the Historical profession (book review)
		Laughton was not the first professor to lecture on naval history, for since 1862 a naval officer, Montagu Burrows, had held the Chichele professorship of Modern History at Oxford, and often lectured on naval subjects.
		Through his influence upon senior naval officers whom he had taught earlier in their careers, he was able to gain access to the Admiralty records at the public Record Office (now the National Archives of the UK), hitherto closed, in 1889.
		In the last year, two naval scholars (one of them Lambert himself) and one maritime historian have been appointed to personal chairs, while the Institute of Historical Research is seeking funding to establish a chair in maritime history.
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	Military Settlers and Volunteers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Act went onto provide that anyone who believed they were entitled to a land grant under these 5 classes had to apply in writing, including with documents to substantiate their claim, to the Commissioner of Crown Lands in the district where they resided, or where they wished to obtain land, by 31 December 1890.
		For the purpose of settling claims and "..to encourage settlement..." the Governor was to set aside in each land district lands to be surveyed in sections of suitable size, to group the sections into allotments for selection by holders of remission certificates and to fix a price for the allotments.
		A further Naval and Military Settlers' and Volunteers' Land Act was passed in 1892 to reconcile differences between the approaches taken by different commissioners in investigating claims and again extending the time limit for making claims until 31 March 1893.
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	PORTUGAL - LoveToKnow Article on PORTUGAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 1510 Albuquerque seized Goa, primarily as a naval base, and in so doing recognized the fact that his country was cornmitted to a policy of territorial aggrandisement.
		Simao Botelho, an able revenue officer, was denied absolution in 1543 because he had reorganized the Malacca customs-house without previously consulting the Dominicans in that city.
		It was this incident that caused the despatch of the Methuen mission and the renewal of the Anglo-Portuguese alliance in 1703.
	88.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PO/PORTUGAL.htm (21258 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1786
		Charles Bianconi, a native of Italy, was born in Ireland in 1802, and is famous for his innovations while living there.
		Charles Humphreys (September 19, 1714 â€“ March 11, 1786) was an American miller and statesman from Haverford, Pennsylvania.
		Charles John Stanley (January 17, 1712 - May 19, 1786) was an English composer and organist.
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	Worcestershire Regiment(29th/36th of Foot) Web site
		He was born at Boulogne on 18 December 1817, was educated at the Scottish military and naval academy, Edinburgh, and was commissioned as second Lieutenant in the 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers) on 6th March 1835.
		In December he was asked by Li Hung Chang to name a British officer to replace the American Burgevine as commander of the disciplined Chinese force, which had been formed by Frederick Townsend Ward.
		Napier said in his despatch that Staveley had afforded him most valuable support and assistance throughout the campaign (ib.
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	A Short History of Australia - Part 2
		Officers profited from the distillation, importation, and sale of it, soldiers and convicts alike consumed large quantities of it; and it bore an evil fruit of disease, crime, outrage, and rebellion.
		Officers of the French scientific expedition which visited Port Jackson in 1802 formed a highly favourable opinion of the means adopted for reforming the convicts and converting them into useful and dependable citizens.
		The officer was Captain George Grey, and the despatch informed the governor that, as he had drawn bills in excess of the authority given to him, he had been relived of his office, and that Grey had been appointed to succeed him.
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	Descendancy of Charles Medaris (5)
		Charles died in July or August of 1793, as that is when his will was probated.
		Charles apparently died from a long illness as he mentions at the writing of his will in March that he was in very poor health.
		Charles Medearis, Sadler, of Chatham Co., N.C. to Alburt Siers of Orange Co., N.C. (for 12 pounds), 100 acres, lying in the fork between Panter (Panther?) Creek and Middle Creek.Signed by Charles Medearis and Betty Medearis, his wife.
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	More Sea and Naval Books
		"Naval genius and character alike qualified him for supreme command." Also includes a fold-out Pedigree of John Rushworth plus a protractor as a bookmark and for use with several of the Figures and one chart.
		It dramatizes the history of the U-boats, their designers, officers and crews with stories of life at sea and ashore, of their exploits on patrol and under attach, of successful raids and sunken missions.
		Comprises the life and services of every living officer in her majesty's navy, from the rank of Admiral of the Fleet to that of Lieutenant, inclusive; almost 5000 officers serving in the British Navy in 1845.
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	August 10th
		The attachment of Charles Napier to his mother was deep and lasting, as his many letters to her attest; she lived to see him advance to middle life, and one envies the pride which a woman must have had in such a son.
		Rejoining, after a while, his regiment in the Peninsula, Charles Napier received a dreadful wound at the battle of Busaco, by which his upper jaw-bone was shattered to pieces, causing unspeakable agony, both at the time of extraction of the bullet, and for many months afterwards.
		The most important epoch in Sir Charles Napier's life was yet to come, and in 1842, at the age of sixty, he was appointed as major-general to the command of the Indian army within the Bombay presidency.
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	Napier Information
		John Napier (1550–1617), mathematician, the inventor of the logarithm in Western mathematics.
		Sir Charles Napier (naval officer) (1786--1860), nephew of George, Admiral, politician
		Electoral district of Napier, a state electoral district in South Australia.
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	During the Napoleonic Wars a British naval officer proposed the use of saturation bombing and chemical warfare
		During the Napoleonic Wars a British naval officer proposed the use of saturation bombing and chemical warfare.
		The naval officer's proposal, which the prince turned over to his advisers, offered a radical scheme by which a beachhead on the coast of France could be gained quickly and decisively.
		Cochrane supported Napier's efforts publicly, but informed a newspaper correspondent that he had provided the government with a plan that could solve the problem.
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	Naval History of the Civil War May 1863
		But the great want, the absolute necessity of the place if it is to be held against naval attack, is heavy guns, larger caliber.'' So well did the Confederates do their job that Fort Fisher successfully dominated Cape Fear until the massive amphibious operation in January 1865.
		Flag Officer Silas H. Stringham, in U.S.S. Minnesota, reported the capture of schooner Almira Ann near the Chickahominy River, Virginia, with cargo of timber.
		I know your officers would be glad to be with me in the river, and gladly would I bring them here to my assistance were it not indispensable to have them on the blockade.
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	John Bythesea VC \| Online Information Bank \| Royal Naval Museum Library \| Research Collections \| Royal Naval Museum at ...
		The ship was part of the fleet under Admiral Charles Napier's command in the Baltic during the Crimean War.
		After recovery, he was the Naval Attache in Washington and his next sea-going appointment was in HMS Phoebe from May 1867, serving with the Flying Squadron sailing round the world under the command of Admiral Sir Geoffrey Hornby.
		Bythesea and the Navigating Officer were court-martialled, which resulted in them both being severely reprimanded, dismissed from their ship and neither of them were to be employed at sea again.
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	Fouled Anchors
		Naval ensign, jack and flag of the President of the Republic (Egypt)
		About 1720 the foul anchor which had before been the badge of the victualling officer was taken for the Admiralty and it was put into the seal, badge and flag.
		For the record: Robinson, Charles Napier (1849-1936) wrote 'The British Fleet' in 1894; it was largely a study of the development of materiel and naval administration.
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	Royal Naval uniform: pattern... (UNI0245) - National Maritime Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Napier joined the Royal Navy in 1799 and reached the rank of admiral in 1860 after a career of victories in the Napoleonic, Anglo-American, Syrian and Crimean Wars.
		His status as public hero was cemented and he remained a popular naval officer until his death.
		In peacetime, Napier served as an MP and in naval retirement had a reputation as a radical and outspoken politician who championed both parliamentary and naval reform.
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	Mikolasy Signs For Naval Duty And Air Course His Brother A Prisoner Of Axis After Battle In Tunisia Nov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Charles Kraft of 600 Chestnut Avenue was graduated from Teaneck High School in 1939.
		A mother's faith that her son is still alive is strong enough to combat the fact that his name is on a list of soldiers killed in action in the Southwest Pacific made public today by the War Department.
		Flight Officer Ranges, fair, five feet 10 and slender, won his first tennis cup when he was a student at Teaneck High School.
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	Charles Napier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		General Sir Charles James Napier — a British soldier
		Admiral Sir Charles Napier — a British naval officer
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
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