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Topic: HMS Congo (1816)

	Everything about 1816 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		1816 became known as "the year without summer" because of the extreme weather conditions the eruption caused.
		He is a great-grandfather to Alexandra of Denmark, and subsequently is an ancestor to the present-day British royal family, including Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
		She was restricted to Cranbourne Lodge at Windsor, Berkshire from July 1814 to January 1816 while Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg lobbied the Prince Regent and the English Parliament for the right to court her [http://www.georgianindex.net/Cranbourne/cranbourne_lodge.html].
	a.nn.wikimiki.org /en/1816 (8937 words)

	William Elford Leach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Leach's nomenclature was a little eccentric - he named twenty-seven species after his friend John Cranch, who had collected the species in Africa and later died on HMS Congo.
		In 1818 he named nine genera after Caroline or anagrams of that name, possibly after his mistress.
		Systematic catalogue of the Specimens of the Indigenous Mammalia and Birds that are preserved at the British Museum (1816)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Elford_Leach (450 words)

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		HMS Ark Royal in company with the destroyers HMS Brazen, HMS Encounter, and HMS Volunteer in one force, while HMS Glorious and HMS Furious form the core of a second force.
		Battleship HMS King George V, fleet carrier HMS Victorious, cruisers and destroyers are later joined by battlecruiser HMS Repulse 1941 - Operation Merkur (Mercury), the German invasion of Crete began at 0800 on Tuesday, 20 May 20.
		They were landed in the Belgian Congo and, after a considerable period in West Africa, managed to return home to Canada and Barbados.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/may/22May.txt (2241 words)

	May 2 Definition / May 2 Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		1816 Events March 25 - Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck dies and is succeeded by the later Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, his son and founder of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.
		1885 - The Congo Free State is established by King Leopold II of BelgiumLeopold II, King of the Belgians (Louis Philippe Marie Victor) (April 9, 1835–December 17, 1909), succeeded his father, Leopold I of Belgium, to the Belgian throne in 1865 and remained king until his death.
		Outside of Belgium, however, he is chiefly remembered as the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State, a private project undertaken by the King to extract rubber and ivory which relied on slavery and was responsible for the death of millions of Africans....
	www.elresearch.com /May_2 (1767 words)

	May 2 - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		1816 - Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Charlotte Augusta are wed.
		1829 - After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of HMS Challenger, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia.
		1885 - The Congo Free State is established by King Leopold II of Belgium.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/May_2 (1142 words)

	Everything about Gabon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It borders on Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo and the Gulf of Guinea.
		The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, and Congo (but not to be confused with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Zaire, which was also at one time known as the Republic of the Congo), is a former French colony of west-central Africa.
		Its capital, Brazzaville, is located on the Congo River,in the south of the country, immediately across from Kinshasa, the capital of the DR Congo.
	f.pl.wikimiki.org /en/Gabon (9214 words)

	CHARLES BRAY's Argentin Journal
		Until 1713, Argentina was administered from Lima; the capital of Peru, under the government of Spain, the first step towards independence was with the founding of the Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata [1776].
		Argentine officials said they wanted to know if there was any nuclear material on the sea bed in the South Atlantic - a reference to HMS Sheffield and several other British ships which were sunk by Argentina's forces during the conflict.
		In February 10th 2004 Argentina has announced that a former naval school which became a major torture center during the country's military rule is to become a museum.
	www.greatestcities.com /users/cbray5003/South_America/Argentina (4225 words)

	Everything about 1816 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Though the work of Paisiello triumphed for a time, Rossinii's later version alone has stood the test of time and has been a mainstay of the operatic repertoire since its introduction in Rome in 1816.
		The story of The Barber of Seville is continued in Beaumarchais's play The Marriage of Figaro and the Mozart opera based on it, which was composed in 1786.
		On May 2, 1816, he married Princess Charlotte Augusta, (1796-1817); the only legitimate child of the British Prince Regent (later King George IV) and therefore heiress to the English throne.
	bn.hu.wikimiki.org /en/1816 (9472 words)

	Naval Memorials
		Commander of HMS Ringdove who was accidentally drowned in Yedo Bay 7-12-1870 and was buried at Yokohama Japan.
		Peter Butt, R.N., at 17 eldest son of Peter Butt, esquire, who died 7th July 1780, of wounds received on board H.M.S. Conqueror on the 19th of May proceeding in the Fleet under the Command of Vice Admiral Sir George Rodney in action with the French fleet in the West Indies.
		Admiral of the White Squadron of H.M. Fleet, who departed this life 28th April 1812, in his 60th year; In his profession, zealous, intrepid, humane, a fond father, an affectionate husband, a pious Christian.
	members.tripod.com /~Glosters/navyz1.htm (3243 words)

	Lane. U S Navy and Slave Trade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 1819, with Congressional passage of the Slave Trade Act, President James Monroe was directed to use warships to suppress the trade and to establish Liberia as a haven for freed slaves next to Sierra Leone on the west coast of Africa.
		In opposing this view Lieutenant Forbes of HMS Bonetta held that emigration was voluntary, and that one of the emigrant ships featured a surgeon and a brass band.
		If Perry's ships were to keep to the schedule he set for them, they had to keep well out to sea on the return voyage, making it unlikely that they would cross the path of a slaver on the vast reaches of the Atlantic.
	amistad.mysticseaport.org /discovery/themes/lane.navy.html (8216 words)

	CABO VERDE CHRONOLOGICAL REFERENCES
		The "lack and total abandonment" of public education was such that by the nineteenth century, very few had any schooling, "including the whites themselves" (Chelmiki and Varnhagen 1841:192; see also Lima 1844, Part 2: 111-12 cited in Meintel).
		1816 Samuel Hodges of Stoughton, Massachusetts, and Manuel Antonio Martins of Cape Verde establish a "joint business venture" which involved smuggling American merchandise aboard African vessels to ports up and down the West African coast.
		On his return visit in 1836, Darwin records in his diary, "We found lying there, as commonly is the case, some slaving vessels."
	virtualcapeverde.net /news2/modules/Downloads/docs/cv_chronological_references.htm (10810 words)

	USS Constitution
		In the meantime they had discovered that the water casks which had formerly been used to contain brandy, had soured and injured the water, and as soon as they got into the fresh water of the Congo, the casks were emptied, and all hands busily employed in filling them with sweet water.
		While in the Congo a boat came off and communicated in Spanish with the Captain and Spanish passenger and received a present of a ham and some other provisions.
		The Steward admitted the refilling of the casks in the Congo, and that the copper had been put up within a couple of days, and that the slave deck had been carefully put its place, but he was evidently unwilling to tell all he knew.
	members.cox.net /shipkiller/data/frigate/constitution_frigate.html (10010 words)

	Project: UK Forces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The policy of “Imperial Policing” took the Marines to the bombardment of Algiers in 1816, to the Ashantee Wars, and to the destruction of the Turkish Fleet at Navarino in 1827.
		The next year the Royal Marines provided the commander and staff for the Rapid Reaction Force in Bosnia, and in 1997and 1998 a Commando Unit flew to the Congo Republic to protect British interests.
		In the same period help was provided to the local populations of Montserrat in the West Indies following a volcano eruption, and in Central America following a hurricane.
	www.project-ukf.com /infantry/royalmarines.php (724 words)

	Lewis Roper Fitzmaurice
		Lewis Roper Fitzmaurice was born on 29 Apr 1816 in Kent, Deptford.
		As a midshipman in the Royal Navy, Ancestor B went on a naval expedition to find the source of the Congo River in Africa.
		Ancestor B served on HMS Victory (the flagship of Adm. Nelson) at the battle of Trafalgar in October 1805 and was badly wounded.
	www.fitzmaurice.info /LRF.html (2031 words)

	Today in History December 13 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		1816 Dec 13, E. Werner von Siemens, German artillery officer and inventor, was born.
		1816 Dec 13, Patent for a dry dock was issued to John Adamson in Boston.
		1833 Dec 13, HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin arrived in Port Deseado, Patagonia.
	www.bonus.com /contour/timelines_history/http@@/timelines.ws/days/12_13.HTML (4211 words)

	HMS Condor Encyclopedia @ ChannelsAndNetworks.com (Channels and Networks) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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	www.channelsandnetworks.com /encyclopedia/Special:Allpages/HMS_Condor (150 words)

	Index J
		In 1816 his mother died and he became king.
		17, 1958, Brussels), governor of Ruanda-Urundi (1932-46) and governor-general of Belgian Congo (1946-52).
		He later commented in a rare moment of objective candour, "I...fully determined to seize the first opportunity to strike some blow to be spoken of...
	www.rulers.org /indexj.html (19274 words)

	Everything about 1472 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		- 1816 - Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville debuts at Teatro Argentina, with a fiasco.
		It borders Nigeria, Chad, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and the Gulf of Guinea.
		Fourteen years later, on a small island known as Arguim off the coast of Mauritania a castle was built, working as a feitoria (a trading post) for commerce with inland Africa thus, circumventing the Arab caravans that crossed the Sahara.
	irn.es.wikimiki.org /en/1472 (10139 words)

	History of the Royal Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The navy was not idle however; the 19th century witnessed a series of transformations that turned the old wooden sailing navy into one of steam and steel.
		The first action of the period was the bombardment of Algiers under Lord Exmouth conducted in 1816.
		During the Greek War of Independence, the Battle of Navarino was fought in 1827.
	en.orangehedgehog.com /content/History_of_the_Royal_Navy (4005 words)

	Index Ke-Ki
		He was critically wounded in a grenade attack on an Awami League rally in Boidder Bazar; he died on his way to Dhaka.
		He was the Federalist candidate for vice president (1804, 1808) and for president (1816) but received only a modest proportion of electoral votes.
		He died suddenly when the cruiser HMS Hampshire, bearing him on a mission to Russia, struck a German mine and sank.
	www.rulers.org /indexk2.html (18556 words)

	rec.boats Frequently Asked Questions (Part 5 of 5)
		HMS MARLBOROUGH WILL ENTER HARBOR, Nicholas Monsarrat, 1947.
		THE JINX SHIP, Howard Pease, 1927, the dark adventure that befell Tod Moran when he shipped as fireman aboard the tramp steamer "Congo", bound out of New York for Caribbean ports.
		SHANGHAI PASSAGE, Howard Pease, 1929, being a tale of mystery and adventure on the high seas in which Stuart Ormsby is shanghaied aboard the tramp steamer "Nanking" bound for ports on the China coast.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/boats-faq/part5 (4274 words)

	2006 Worldwide Selection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Dakar to Tokingushi (B. Congo), fwded to Mons/Belgium (23 Nov).
		Text refers to naval incident aboard HMS Cadmus with General Dorega.
		Very rare piece of mail via Brazil as a Brazilian Province and the only we've seen with this marking from this period.
	www.antoniotorres.com /cats/cat38_1.htm (3074 words)

	William Elford Leach: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		John cranch (1758 - 1816) was an english natural historynaturalist and explorer....
		[For more info, click on this link] and later died on HMS Congo.
		In 1818 he named nine genera after Caroline or anagrams of that name, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /enc2/william_elford_leach (1479 words)

	Tabby's Journal of Discourses: HISTORY of the WORLD TIME-LINE from 1800 A.D. to 1899 A.D. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		1816 Crop failure was widespread in Europe, resulting in food riots in England, France, and Belgium.
		1816 Henry Hall is credited as the first person to cultivate cranberries.
		1816 Tract of land proposed route of Illinois and Michigan Canal, ceded to United States Commissioners.
	tabbydiscourses.blogspot.com /2005/08/history-of-world-time-line-from-1800.html (14898 words)

	Replies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		On the 24th, she loaded ammunition and supplies at Sasebo and on the 25th, she got underway for operating area "Nan" in the Yellow Sea.
		There she relieved carrier HMS GLORY (R 62) assuming CTE 95.11, and on the 26th, launched her first close air support sortie.
		During the next months, she cruised off the west coast of Korea, alternating with carrier HMAS SYDNEY (R 17) as CTE 95.11.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/804599/replies?c=1 (4809 words)

	Timeline 1771-1779
		Austen's most famous works were published between 1811 and 1816, shortly before she died in July 1817.
		Later in the 19th century critics appreciated Austen's writing more, and her novels remain popular today--for both literary critics and moviegoers, as they are widely read and adapted for the silver screen.
		1776 Sep 6, The Turtle, the 1st submarine invented by David Bushnell, attempted to secure a cask of gunpowder to the HMS Eagle, flagship of the British fleet, in the Bay of NY but got entangled with the Eagle’s rudder bar, lost ballast and surfaced before the charge was planted.
	timelines.ws /1771_1779.HTML (14427 words)

	Everything about 1614 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Royal Navy Cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island.
		Hardwick decision and the U.S. government's handling of the AIDS epidemic; first public display of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.
		- 1998 - A Congo Air Lines Boeing 727 is shot down by rebels in Kindu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 40
	par.no.wikimiki.org /en/1614 (9242 words)

	Documents Related to the History of International Relations, prior to 1914
		Bismarck and the "Polish Question." Speech to the Lower House of the Prussian Parliament, January 28, 1886.
		Kasson, John A., "The Congo Conference and the President's Message," The North American Review, vol.
		"The Congo Reform Movement in England, 1896-1904," by E. Morel.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/irhistry.htm (7827 words)

	Alibris: Browse Books by ISBN
		0872638902: A narrative of the voyage of HMS Beagle : being passages from the 'Narrative' written by Captain Robert FitzRoy, R.N., together with extracts from his logs, reports and letters, additional material from the diary and letters of Charles Darwin, notes...
		0872638333: Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, commanded by the late Captain Owen Stanley during the years 1846-1850, including discoveries and surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, etc., to which is added the account of Mr.
		0872645550: Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia and Madagascar performed in H.M. ships Leven and Barracouta under the direction of W. Owen by command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
	www.alibris.com /books/isbns/14891 (1411 words)

	Timeline 1841-1849
		1845 May 19, The HMS Erebus and Terror sailed from England under Sir John Franklin to navigate through the Arctic and find the elusive Northwest passage.
		After commissioning three unsuccessful search expeditions, the British Admiralty posted a reward for anyone who could ascertain the fate of the crewmen of the HMS Erebus and Terror, who had sailed from England in May 1845 to navigate through the Arctic and find the elusive Northwest passage.
		Success was anticipated with Franklin commanding well-equipped crews and ships, but by 1847, the British Admiralty had received no reports of Franklin.
	timelines.ws /1841_1849.HTML (14995 words)

	Everything about 1195 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		- 1960 - Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) declares its independence from France
		She is his fifth murder victim in his fourth incident.
		- 2002 - A peace accord is signed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
	mr.wikimiki.org /en/1195 (7588 words)

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