United Kingdom (1915) Prototype – 1 Built The First World War was supposed to end quickly. Most of the high-ranking officials of the participating countries expected and planned for a short war, in which they would quickly crush their enemies and win glory and territories for their nations....
The new BR regions to a large extent inherited the organisations, structures and ethos of their predecessor Big Four companies and continued to work with a large degree of autonomy, building new steam locomotives and rolling stock to their respective companies' pre-war designs. There were also ...
was so good; in spite of his obviously German background, he was in fact English, having been a staff sergeant in World War 1, who stayed on in Germany and married a German girl. He worked at the Ford factory in Köln during the Second World War. Harry’s English was almost accent...
Mr. Henry Francis Gordon, agent of the Church Missionary Society in charge of its establishments at Mombasa, has favoured us with sketches of the town and harbour ; of the scene on that occasion, when the Company’s steam launch, towing the boats, conveyed Bishop Tucker and his party ...
B. George Stephenson’s famous locomotive, the ‘Rocket’. C.the invention of the steam engine. D. the springing-up of towns. II. Fill in the following blanks with appropriate words or expressions. 1. In the First Civil War, the king’s men were calledCavaliersand the supporters of parl...
The most important invention was the steam engine in 1769 and itsimprovementby James Watt in 1784. The steam boat was built by a young American of Irish origin. The first locomotive railway was built between Liverpool andManchester. The fall of British Empire After WWII, a wave of national ...
After the war the British government of Clement Attlee passed an independence bill in July 1947, and independence was achieved the following month. In January 1950 India’s constitution as an independent state took effect. Postindependence dominance of the Nehru clan Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi,...
The viceroy, Lord Northbrook (governed 1872–76), resisting all such cabinet promptings to reverse Lawrence’s noninterventionist policy and to return to the militant posture of the First Anglo-Afghan War era (1839–42), resigned his office rather than accept orders from ministers whose diplomatic...
But a war with Gwalior in December 1843, designed to keep its large army out of hostile hands, frustrated these plans, and the directors, exasperated by Ellenborough’s arrogant self-will, resolved in April 1844 to recall him. On his return he was created an earl and viscount. Ellenborough...