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A 7.4m-long steel trolley track bearing the words “Barrow Steel” and the date “1895” has been uncovered during sidewalk works ...
A rare segment of the pre-war trolley track built here in 1895 was uncovered during recent construction works outside Fort ...
On King William Island, the rangers traveled west in a long line of snowmobiles. Some pulled wooden sleds, heavy with food, camping gear, and military equipment.
View The harbour of Port Cornwallis, Island of Greatansaman, with the fleet getting under weigh for Rangoon by George Hunt on artnet. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by George Hunt. Price ...
The film recounts the pivotal events leading to the British surrender at Yorktown during the American Revolutionary War. It details the strategic maneuvers of British General Cornwallis and the ...
NUNAVUT, Canada — Thirty-seven U.S. and Canadian soldiers were tactically inserted by way of an LC-130 Hercules on Arctic Ocean ice just east of Little Cornwallis Island in Nunavut, Canada ...
IN August 1948, a drilling programme was carried out at Resolute, N.W.T., Canada, lat. 74° 41′ N., long. 94° 54′ W., to locate a suitable site for a future seismological station. When this ...
Cornwallis, Charles maker Baillie, James S. Description (Brief) Colored print of Cornwallis handing his sword to Washington. The American troops stand on the left, the British on the right. The French ...
William Cornwallis-West died within weeks of his wife’s affair going public, and she too would pass away at the age of 64. Whether she is remembered as a conniving beauty or an ambitious aristocrat, a ...
“There it is,” he said — the sword of British Gen. Charles Cornwallis that, experts theorize, was presented to the Americans during the British surrender at Yorktown on Oct. 19, 1781.