British Empire Tapestries
Description: British Empire - Rorke's Drift Mission Station, was a mission station of the Church of Sweden, and the former trading post of James Rorke, a merchant from the Eastern Cape. It was located near a ford, on the Buffalo River, which at the time formed the border between the British colony of Natal and the Zulu Kingdom. The Battle of Rorke's Drift, was an engagement in the Anglo-Zulu War. The successful British defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift, under the command of Lieutenants John Chard of the Royal Engineers and Gonville Bromhead of the 24th Regiment of Foot, after the defeat at the Battle of Isandlwana, has become legendary in British history.
Description: British Empire - Rorke's Drift Mission Station, was a mission station of the Church of Sweden, and the former trading post of James Rorke, a merchant from the Eastern Cape. It was located near a ford, on the Buffalo River, which at the time formed the border between the British colony of Natal and the Zulu Kingdom. The Battle of Rorke's Drift, was an engagement in the Anglo-Zulu War. The successful British defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift, under the command of Lieutenants John Chard of the Royal Engineers and Gonville Bromhead of the 24th Regiment of Foot, after the defeat at the Battle of Isandlwana, has become legendary in British history.
Description: British Empire - The Battle of Rorke's Drift was a heroic successful defense by about 150 British and colonial troops against an assault by roughly 4,000 Zulu warriors in 1879.
British Empire - Rorke's Drift Mission Station Tapestry
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Description: British Empire - William Wilberforce was a British politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to abolish the Atlantic slave trade. A native of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he began his political career in 1780, and became an independent Member of Parliament for Yorkshire. He became a leading English abolitionist. He headed the parliamentary campaign against the British slave trade for 20 years until the passage of the Slave Trade Act 1807.
Description: British Empire - black and white coat of arms. Black and white composition. Coat of Arms of Great Britain. This composition consists of the coat of arms of Great Britain, as well as the inscription "British Empire". The composition also contains background inscriptions. This is "Diet et mon droit" and also "The Empire on which the sun never sets."
Description: British - The Boat Race is an annual rowing race between the Cambridge University Boat Club and the Oxford University Boat Club, rowed between men's and women's open-weight eights on the River Thames in London, England. It is also known as the University Boat Race and the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race.
Description: Saint George - Saint George's Day is the feast day of Saint George, notably England’s patron saint, but celebrated also by Christian churches, countries, and regions of which he is the patron saint. Saint George's Day is celebrated on the 23rd of April, the traditionally accepted date of the saint's death in the Diocletianic Persecution. It coincides with the death date of English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.
Description: World War 2 - Free France was a political entity that claimed to be the legitimate government of France following the dissolution of the Third Republic. Led by French general Charles de Gaulle, Free France was established as a government-in-exile in London in June 1940 after the Fall of France.
Description: World War 2 - Free France was a political entity that claimed to be the legitimate government of France following the dissolution of the Third Republic. Led by French general Charles de Gaulle, Free France was established as a government-in-exile in London in June 1940 after the Fall of France. The Free French Naval Forces were the naval arm of the Free French Forces during the Second World War.
Description: World War 2 - HMS Ark Royal was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that was operated during the Second World War. Designed in 1934 to fit the restrictions of the Washington Naval Treaty, Ark Royal was built by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead, England, and completed in November 1938.
Description: Battle of Waterloo - The Battle of Waterloo, fought on the 18th of June 1815, near Waterloo, Belgium. It was a decisive engagement that ended Napoleon's reign and the Napoleonic Wars. It pitted Napoleon's French forces against a coalition of British, Prussian, Dutch, and German troops led by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blücher. The battle resulted in a crushing defeat for Napoleon, marking the end of his imperial ambitions and leading to his exile on St. Helena.
Description: American Revolution - Paul Revere was a silversmith in colonial Boston. He is famous for his midnight ride to warn colonists about the British troops who were poised to attack. On the night of April 18, 1775, Paul Revere rode from Boston to Lexington, Massachusetts. He wanted to warn patriot leaders John Hancock and Samuel Adams that British troops were coming to arrest them. Contrary to popular legend, he did not shout "The British are coming", as most colonists still saw themselves as British. Revere warned people that "the regulars" (the British army soldiers) were coming out.
Description: White Star Line - HMHS Britannic was the third and final vessel of the White Star Line's Olympic class of steamships. She was the youngest sister of the RMS Olympic and the RMS Titanic and was intended to enter service as a transatlantic passenger liner. She was operated as a hospital ship from 1915 until her sinking near the Greek island of Kea, in the Aegean Sea, in 1916. At the time she was the largest hospital ship in the world..
Description: The Old Contemptibles Association was founded by Captain JP Danny, RA, on 25 June 1925. Membership was limited to veterans of the regular army who had served in the British Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders within range of enemy artillery during the period 5 August to 22 November 1914 and had thus taken part in the desperate early battles and retreats before the advancing German forces, before the tide turned and the allies counterattacked at the Battle of the Marne. The Association took its name from a notorious Order of the Day issued by the Kaiser in August 1914 which referred disparagingly to Sir John French’s ‘contemptible little army’. The derogatory title was adopted enthusiastically by soldiers in the BEF.
