eBooks „Ensign“
30 eBooks were found for the search term „Ensign“.
Alexander Irvine
In the Glow of a Peat Fire
- Fiction
- English
- 3632 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
Lieutenant-General Alexander Irvine or Irwin (died 1752) was a British Army officer.
On 1 October 1689 he entered the Army as an ensign in the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Foot.[1] He was made adjutant of the 1st Battalion on 22 May 1694[2] and promoted to captain on 2 October 1695, when serving with the regiment before Namur;[3] his commission was renewed in 1702. [more]
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Frederick C. Davis
Making Your Camera Pay
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- English
- 16162 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
USS Frederick C. Davis (DE-136)
USS Frederick C. Davis (DE-136) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named for Ensign Frederick Curtice
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Operation Teardrop
attempted to pass through the barrier line but was detected by USS Frederick C. Davis at 08:30, which immediately prepared to attack the submarine. After
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Richard Henry Savage
The Little Lady Of Lagunitas
- Adventure
- English
- 121761 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
"Caramba! Adios, Seflores!" cried Captain Miguel Peralta, sitting on his roan charger on the Monterey bluffs. A white-sailed bark is heading southward for Acapulco. His vaqueros tossed up their sombreros, shouting, "Vive Alvarado! Muerte los estrangeros!" The Pacific binds the hills of California in a sapphire zone, unflecked by a single sail in sight, save the retreating trader, which is flitting around "Punta de los Pinos." It is July, 1840. The Mexican ensign flutters in the plaza of Monterey, the capital of Alta California. Miguel Peralta dismounts and crosses himself, murmuring, "Sea por Dios y la Santissima Virgen." His duty is done. He has verified the departure of the Yankee ship. [more]
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Laurence Sterne
A Sentimental Journey
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- English
- 40054 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy; but he also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics. Sterne died in London after years of fightingconsumption. Sterne was born in Clonmel, County Tipperary. His father, Roger Sterne, was an ensign in a British regiment recently returned fromDunkirk, which was disbanded on the day of Sterne's birth. [more]
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William Shakespeare
The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice (Illustrated)
- Humor
- English
- 27378 Words
- Ages 10 and up
- 116
The play opens with Roderigo, a rich and dissolute gentleman, complaining to Iago, an ensign, that Iago has not told him about the secret marriage between Desdemona, the daughter of a Senator named Brabantio, and Othello, a Moorish general in the Venetian army. He is upset by this development because he loves Desdemona and had previously asked her father for her hand in marriage. Iago hates Othello for promoting a younger man named Michael Cassio above him, and tells Roderigo that he plans to use Othello for his own advantage. Iago is also angry because he believes, or at least gives the pretence of belief, that Othello slept with his wife Emilia. Iago denounces Cassio as a scholarly tactician with no real battle experience; in contrast, Iago is a battle-tested soldier. By emphasizing Roderigo's failed bid for Desdemona, and his own dissatisfaction with serving under Othello, Iago convinces Roderigo to wake Brabantio, Desdemona's father, and tell him about his daughter's elopement. Iago sneaks away to find Othello and warns him that Brabantio is coming for him.
Before Brabantio reaches Othello, news arrives in Venice that the Turks are going to attack Cyprus; therefore Othello is summoned to advise the senators. Brabantio arrives and accuses Othello of seducing Desdemona by witchcraft, but Othello defends himself successfully before an assembly that includes the Duke of Venice, Brabantio's kinsmen Lodovico and Gratiano, and various senators. He explains that Desdemona became enamored of him for the sad and compelling stories he told of his life before Venice, not because of any witchcraft. The senate is satisfied, but Brabantio leaves saying that Desdemona will betray Othello. By order of the Duke, Othello leaves Venice to command the Venetian armies against invading Turks on the island of Cyprus, accompanied by his new wife, his new lieutenant Cassio, his ensign Iago, and Iago's wife, Emilia as Desdemona's attendant.
The party arrives in Cyprus to find that a storm has destroyed the Turkish fleet. Othello orders a general celebration and leaves to spend private time with Desdemona. In his absence, Iago schemes to get Cassio drunk after Cassio's own admission that he cannot hold his wine. He then persuades Roderigo to draw Cassio into a fight. The resulting brawl alarms the citizenry, and Othello is forced to quell the disturbance. Othello blames Cassio for the disturbance and strips him of his rank. Cassio is distraught, but, as part of his plan to convince Othello that Cassio and Desdemona are having an affair, Iago persuades Cassio to importune Desdemona to act as an intermediary between himself and Othello, in order to convince her husband to reinstate him. [more]
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David Collins
An Account Of the English Colony In new South Wales, Vol. 1 Fiscle (Part-I)
- History
- English
- 247533 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
David Collins (1756-1810), deputy judge advocate and lieutenant-governor, was born on 3 March 1756 in London, the third child of Arthur Tooker Collins, an officer of marines and later major-general commanding the Plymouth Division, and his wife Henrietta Caroline, née Fraser, of Park, King's County, Ireland. His grandfather, Arthur Collins (1684-1760), with Abel Roper, in 1709 issued the first edition of Collins's Peerage of England. David probably attended the Exeter Grammar School under John Marshall, and at 14 joined his father's division as an ensign. He was promoted second lieutenant on 20 February 1771, and next year served in H.M.S. Southhampton when Queen Matilda of Denmark was rescued. About March 1775 he left for North America and was at the battle of Bunker's Hill on 17 June when the British suffered heavy losses, especially of commissioned officers, but occupied the heights of Charlestown. A week later he was promoted first lieutenant and by November 1776 was stationed at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Here at the Church of St Paul on 13 June 1777 he married Mary (Maria Stuart), daughter of Captain Charles Proctor. By that time Collins had become adjutant in the Chatham Division. He was promoted captain-lieutenant in August 1779, captain in July 1780, and in February 1781 joined the Courageux in the Channel Squadron. He hated 'the salt sea ocean' and with relief returned to Chatham in January 1783; in September he was placed on half-pay. [more]
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Hawley Smart
Belles And Ringers
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- English
- 42833 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
Smart was born in Dover, Kent on 3 June 1833. He was the son of Major George Smart and his wife Katherine, daughter of Sir Joseph Henry Hawley, 3rd Baronet (1813–1875), a wealthy racehorse owner, bibliophile and advocate of turf reform, and his wife Sarah (née Crosbie), who came from a landed Sussex family. His grandfather, Col. Henry Smart, had been governor of Dover Castle earlier in the century. Smart was married in 1883 to Alice Ellen, daughter of John Smart of Budleigh Salterton, Devon. Smart died at his residence there, Laburnum Cottage, West Hill, on 8 January 1893. His wife survived him.[1]
Army career[edit]
Smart was privately educated and then commissioned in the British Army as an ensign in the 1st Regiment of Foot (Royal Scots) in 1849, through the influence of the future Lord Raglan. He served through the Crimean War, being promoted to captain in 1855. He sailed in 1857 for India, where he served during the Indian Mutiny. In 1858 he switched to the 17th (Leicestershire) Regiment and was stationed in Canada. He left Quebec in 1864 and then sold out of the army.[2] [more]
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Charles Sturt
Two Expeditions Into The Interior Of Southern Australia, Complete. Volume 1
- History
- English
- 73795 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
Charles Sturt was born in Bengal,[1] British India, the eldest son (of thirteen children) of Thomas Lenox Napier Sturt, a judge under the British East India Company.[2] At the age of five, Charles was sent to relations in England to be educated,[2] and after attending a preparatory school he was sent to Harrow in 1810.[3]
In 1812, Charles went to read with a Mr. Preston near Cambridge,[3] but his father was not wealthy and had difficulty finding the money to send him to Cambridge University,[2] or to establish him in a profession.[3] An aunt made an appeal to the Prince Regent and, on 9 September 1813, Sturt was gazetted as an ensign with the 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot in the British Army.[2]
Sturt saw action with the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War and against the Americans in Canada,[2] returning to Europe a few days after the Battle of Waterloo.[2] Sturt was gazetted lieutenant on 7 April 1823 and promoted captain on 15 December 1825. With a detachment from his regiment, Sturt escorted convicts aboard the Mariner to New South Wales, arriving in Sydney on 23 May 1827.[2] [more]
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Charles Sturt
Two Expeditions Into The Interior Of Southern Australia, Complete. Volume 2
- History
- English
- 75713 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
Charles Sturt was born in Bengal,[1] British India, the eldest son (of thirteen children) of Thomas Lenox Napier Sturt, a judge under the British East India Company.[2] At the age of five, Charles was sent to relations in England to be educated,[2] and after attending a preparatory school he was sent to Harrow in 1810.[3]
In 1812, Charles went to read with a Mr. Preston near Cambridge,[3] but his father was not wealthy and had difficulty finding the money to send him to Cambridge University,[2] or to establish him in a profession.[3] An aunt made an appeal to the Prince Regent and, on 9 September 1813, Sturt was gazetted as an ensign with the 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot in the British Army.[2]
Sturt saw action with the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War and against the Americans in Canada,[2] returning to Europe a few days after the Battle of Waterloo.[2] Sturt was gazetted lieutenant on 7 April 1823 and promoted captain on 15 December 1825. With a detachment from his regiment, Sturt escorted convicts aboard the Mariner to New South Wales, arriving in Sydney on 23 May 1827.[2] [more]
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William Makepeace Thackeray
The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan
- Adventure
- English
- 28216 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 3
I loved Julia Jowler--loved her to madness; but her father intended her for a Member of Council at least, and not for a beggarly Irish ensign. It was, however, my fate to make the passage to India (on board of the "Samuel Snob" East Indiaman, Captain Duffy) with this lovely creature, and my misfortune instantaneously to fall in love with her. We were not out of the Channel before I adored her, worshipped the deck which she trod upon, kissed a thousand times the cuddy-chair on which she used to sit. The same madness fell on every man in the ship. The two mates fought about her at the Cape; the surgeon, a sober pious Scotchman, from disappointed affection, took so dreadfully to drinking as to threaten spontaneous combustion; and old Colonel Lilywhite, carrying his wife and seven daughters to Bengal, swore that he would have a divorce from Mrs. L., and made an attempt at suicide; the captain himself told me, with tears in his eyes, that he hated his hitherto-adored Mrs. Duffy, although he had had nineteen ch [more]
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