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was a rival candidate to John Wilkes in the Middlesex constituency at the general election of 1769

Shan woman and child

The US Navy monitor USS 'Puritan' during the bombardment of the Cuban coastal city of Matanzas early in the Spanish-American War

The allusion is to Sheridan's loyalty after the breach with the whigs

Street scene, Monnickendam, Netherlands mb-width 5167 BöcksteinStreet scene, Monnickendam, Netherlands, 1898. View of the 16th century Speeltoren, the tower of the old town hall, which has a carillon of 18 bells. Illustration from a book of photographs taken in Holland and Belgium by James Batkin, (1898).