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Bellerophon, HMS
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Bellerophon, HMS, the ship aboard which, on 15 July 1815, Napoleon surrendered to Captain Frederick Maitland in Basque Roads. Napoleon and his entourage remained in the
Bellerophon until they were transferred to HMS
Northumberland for passage to exile in St Helena.
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From slipway to scrapyard Boney's nemesis: Christopher Hart on the stirring life and ignominious death of a battleship; Billy Ruffian: the Bellerophon and the downfall of Napoleon By David Cordingly BLOOMSBURY pounds 16.99 pounds 14.99 (+ pounds 2.25 P&P PER ORDER) 0870 800 1122
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 9/14/2003; ; 700+ words
; The 74-gun ship of the line, the Bellerophon, was launched into a stormy and turbulent...how the destinies of Napoleon and the Bellerophon crossed again and again, until finally...follows in the tempestuous wake of the Bellerophon from slipway to scrapyard, from 1782...
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Bellerophon Debuts with Global Macro Fund
Newspaper article from: Daily News; 1/9/2002; ; 396 words
; LONDON (HedgeWorld.com) - Bellerophon Investment Management is launching...capital provided by Minster Trust. Bellerophon is one of four investment management...Boxwood and Deco Capital. The Bellerophon Global Tactical Fund will invest...
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KESTREL ANNOUNCES BELLEROPHON RESULTS; SPIDER NEXT NORTHWEST SHELF PROJECT FOR DENVER COMPANY
PR Newswire; 6/30/1995; 700+ words
; ...drilling efforts have been completed on the Bellerophon well located in section WA-254-P...significant hydrocarbons detected. The Bellerophon well, located 85 kilometers from the...The cost to Kestrel incurred by the Bellerophon well is approximately $100,000...
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KESTREL WELL DRILLING BEGINS; BELLEROPHON A 200-MILLION BARREL TARGET
PR Newswire; 6/27/1995; 700+ words
; ...DENVER, June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Kestrel Energy Inc. (Nasdaq: KEST) today announced drilling has begun on the Bellerophon well located in WA-254-P offshore on the North West Shelf of Australia. Drilling on the well began Saturday, June...
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KESTREL REPORTS 4TH QUARTER EARNINGS; BELLEROPHON DRY HOLE CONTRIBUTES TO LOSS
PR Newswire; 9/28/1995; 625 words
; ...was attributed by company officials to a previously announced writeoff of $138,000 in dry hole costs associated with the Bellerophon well on the North West Shelf of Australia. The increase in fourth quarter revenues was attributed to June 1994 acquisition...
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Gastropods and rostroconchs (Mollusca) from the Maxville Limestone (Upper Mississippian) in Ohio (1).
Magazine article from: The Ohio Journal of Science; 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Whitfield 1882) Naticopsis ziczac Whitfield = Naticopsis (Naticopsis) ziczac Whitfield, 1882 Bellerophon alternodosus Whitfield = Bellerophon (Bellerophon) alternodosus Whitfield, 1882 Bellerophon sublaevis Hall = Bellerophon (Bellerophon...
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Two Greek myths fly so high, fall so far. (Reading Corner).(Short Story)
Magazine article from: Appleseeds; 12/1/2002; ; 626 words
; ...with his graceful flight--especially the hero Bellerophon. Bellerophon wished to tame the wild Pegasus. One day, his...presented him with a magical golden bridle. When Bellerophon slipped the magic bridle over Pegasus' head...
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The boat that sank Bonaparte Andrew Roberts on a 'biography' of the ship that haunted Napoleon from beginning to end
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 9/14/2003; ; 700+ words
; Billy Ruffian: The Bellerophon and the Downfall of Napoleon by...2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222 HMS BELLEROPHON , a 74-gun ship of the line...Billy Ruffian". It was apposite; Bellerophon roughed it through the French Revolutionary...
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Victory at Sea; A British warship sails into history.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/26/2003; ; 700+ words
; THE BILLY RUFFIAN: The Bellerophon and the Downfall of Napoleon The...one of those fabled vessels, the Bellerophon, launched in 1786 and converted...and earned the name "The Flying Bellerophon" because she could make 12 knots...
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The day our sailor did his duty
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo; 9/27/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Cumby was a lieutenant on board the Bellerophon, the British ship which came closer...made the last signal observed from the Bellerophon before the action began which was to...signal for close action flying." The Bellerophon was in the British fleet's Lee Column...
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Bellerophon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Bellerophon , in Greek mythology, son of Glaucus...the death of its bearer. Iobates gave Bellerophon the seemingly impossible task of killing...part lion, part goat, part dragon. Bellerophon, however, with the aid of the flying...
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Bellerophon, HMS
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
Bellerophon, HMS, the ship aboard which, on 15 July 1815, Napoleon surrendered to Captain Frederick Maitland in Basque Roads. Napoleon and his entourage remained in the Bellerophon until they were transferred to HMS Northumberland for passage to exile in St Helena.
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Pegasus
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
...help of the goddess Athena*, the hero Bellerophon later tamed Pegasus and rode the horse...monster called the Chimaera. Later Bellerophon tried to ride Pegasus to the top of...to bite Pegasus, and the horse threw Bellerophon to earth, crippling him for life...
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Sir John Franklin
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...commanded by his cousin Capt. Matthew Flinders, to explore and map parts of the Australian coast, and service in H.M.S. Bellerophon and Bedford at the battles of Trafalgar and New Orleans, respectively. Franklin was promoted from midshipman to lieutenant...
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Acrocorinthus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...acropolis remain. The Acrocorinthus was the site of a temple of Aphrodite. It was strongly fortified in the Middle Ages. Below gushed the fountain of Pirene, from which, in legend, Pegasus was drinking when captured by Bellerophon.
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