Word: trafalgar
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...London Times, reporting the news of Trafalgar: "There was not a man who did not think that the life of the Hero of the Nile was too great a price for the capture and destruction of twenty sail of French and Spanish men of war. No ebullitions of popular transport, no demonstrations of public joy, marked this great and important event...
...teach Gold Coast natives, who own more than 5,000 mi. of improved highways, how to dodge motor traffic, Nana Sir Ofori Atta, while visiting London, took practice crossing frantic Trafalgar Square (see cut). Sir Ofori, Omanhene (Paramount Chief) of Akyem Abuakwa, a Gold Coast district which once supplied myriads of U. S. slaves, is a rich, pious, English-speaking Presbyterian, especially educated in manual training and agriculture, whom King George knighted for marshalling Gold Coast natives against the Germans in Africa during...
Admiral Sir Charles Bullen commanded H. M. S. Britannia at the Battle of Trafalgar and had a son named Richard Edward. Richard grew up to be a captain in the Royal Navy and had a son named Percy Sutherland. Percy grew up to be a newspaperman to beget five children and fill three inches each in the British Who's Who and Who's Who in America. Last week Percy Sutherland Bullen, 66, found himself being interviewed by newshawks in Manhattan. Reason: After 50 years with newspapers, 40 years with the London Daily Telegraph, 30 years...
...Imperial Majesty had fied without observing the formality of presenting his sword. In Trafalgar Square the crowd surged like a rising tide and sang God Save the King. Through the thin light of a cathedral he Archbishop rendered up his solmen thanks and hoped that the day of the plowshare had returned forever. Peace on earth had come at last and democracy ruled in a world made safe...
...guns were muzzle loading and her speed six knots. She had an engine and a screw, but as with all naval vessels of the time the instructions were to use sail on all possible occasions. The King thus learned the old sail drill which carried Nelson to victory at Trafalgar, and served in the navy during the most eventful period of its life, when it changed from oak to iron, from muzzle loading to hydraulic loading, and from sail to steam and even...