Jazirat al Maqlab (Telegraph Island) - Atlas Obscura
Nov 6, 2009 · From 1864 to 1869, Jazirat al Maqlab, or "Telegraph Island," was an active telegraph outpost crucial to communication between India and Britain. For five years after the telegraphy was...
Heligoland, The Tiny Forgotten Outpost of the British Empire
But, this Frisian (not German) peaking island of 3,000 inhabitants was part of the British Empire from 1814 to 1890. It had its own British governor (or.Lt. governor), it’s own flag...
An outpost of empire : Victoria, British Columbia
Sep 26, 2024 · An outpost of empire : Victoria, British Columbia by Herbert Eugene Bolton. Publication date 1907 Topics Victoria, B.C. -- Description and travel Publisher [Victoria, B.C. : Colonist Presses] ... Cuthbert, Herbert; Victoria Development and Tourist Association; YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) Autocrop_version 0.0.17_books-serials ...
Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
It details his travels to each of the remaining dependencies of the British Empire and was first published in 1985 in Britain by Hodder and Stoughton under the title Outposts and in the United States by Prentice Hall as The Sun Never Sets: Travels to …
John Chard - Wikipedia
Colonel John Rouse Merriott Chard VC (21 December 1847 – 1 November 1897) was a British Army officer who received the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration for valour "in the face of the enemy" that can be awarded to members of the British armed forces.
31 Oct 1940 - British Smash Western Desert Outpost - Trove
May 15, 2024 · CAIRO, Wednesday.—An Italian outpost south of Sidi Barrani was broken up by British action. Under cover of night troops ...
The Trucial Oman Scouts Was the British Army’s Last Desert …
Aug 30, 2015 · But fewer than 50 years ago, the country — then known as the Trucial States — was a harsh, undeveloped desert outpost of the British Empire, with few roads, no telephones. It was a place...
Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
Jun 15, 2004 · The New York Times bestselling author of Krakatoa and The Professor and the Madman takes readers on a quirky and charming tour of the last outpost of the British empire Outposts is Simon Winchester’s journey to find the vanishing empire, “on which the …
The Victorian Little Wars | Page 8 | Treefrog Treasures
Oct 17, 2017 · .....This weekend I sent some quality time with by eldest son putting together a frontier outpost using some ( of the few ) Desert village sets made by K&C...
Photograph - 8th LH outpost, 1918 circa - Victorian Collections
They are near three figures wearing helmets lying on the ground, possibly men of the Imperial Camel Corps or British infantry. Inscriptions & markings. Below photograph "Stony desert landscape known as Khuweilfe ( Thirsty Ridge ), 8 miles north of Beersheba. Only had a little water hence the name",