very lights
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very lights (pron. veery), coloured pyrotechnic lights fired from a very pistol on board ship in order to communicate with another ship or with the shore. The very pistol has now been superseded by more modern means of communicating a ship's identity or as a
distress signal, etc.
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William Pitt, Earl of Chatham and British colonial policy: a neglected source.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 8/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...agreed that William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, was the driving...which emerge Pitt's views on...sources as the Chatham Papers (P...papers highlight Pitt's keen and...Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst...Letters from William Pirt to Amherst...
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William Pitt the younger: some unnoticed manuscripts.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 4/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; In 1989, A.D. Harvey published William Pitt the Younger, 1759-1806, the initial volume...course of preparing a volume in the same series on William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, I have identified additional archival sources...
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Archive.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 5/11/2001; 700+ words
; ...continued painting and sculpturing until his death in 1989. Also on this day: 1778: Birth of statesman William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham; 1812: Prime Minister Spencer Perceval assassinated in the House of Commons by John Bellingham; 1888...
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THEME OF THE DAY.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 5/11/2000; 697 words
; ...rugby union winger Mike Sleman, 49; composer Judith Weir, 46. Anniversaries: 1778: Birth of statesman William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham; 1812: Prime Minister Spencer Perceval assassinated in the House of Commons by John Bellingham; 1888...
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'Where laws end, tyranny begins' ; THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/20/2007; 209 words
; William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham English statesman, speech to House of Lords (1770)
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On this day.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 11/15/2000; 459 words
; ...1708: Birth of statesman William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham; 1738: Birth of astronomer Sir William Herschel; 1802: Death of...shorthand system; 1839: Death of William Murdock, inventor of coal...
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Take a break: A STEP BACK IN TIME.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland); 11/15/2003; 459 words
; n 1708 William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham, was born in London. n 1738 Astronomer Sir William Herschel, who discovered Uranus, was born in Hanover. He...
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ON THIS DAY
Newspaper article from: Evening Mail; 11/15/2000; 346 words
; 1708: William Pitt the Elder, 1st earl of Chatham, was born in London. 1738: Astronomer Sir William Herschel, who discovered Uranus, was born in Hanover. He...
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ON THIS DAY.
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Evening Mail (England); 11/15/2000; 353 words
; 1708: William Pitt the Elder, 1st earl of Chatham, was born in London. 1738: Astronomer Sir William Herschel, who discovered Uranus, was born in Hanover. He...
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On This Day.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England); 5/11/2002; 303 words
; 1778: Death of statesman William Pitt (the Elder), 1st Earl of Chatham. 1812: British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval was shot dead by a bankrupt Liverpool broker, John Bellingham, as he entered...
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William Pitt Chatham, 1st earl of
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
William Pitt Chatham, 1st earl of , 1708-78, British...dramatic, and patriotic, Chatham excelled as a war minister...He was the father of William Pitt . Early Life A member...accepted the title earl of Chatham, and formed such a broadly...
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Pitt, William, 1st earl of Chatham
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Pitt, William, 1st earl of Chatham (1708–78), known as Pitt the Elder. In...took the title of earl of Chatham and the office...of Grafton as 1st lord). Within...favourite son, William Pitt the Younger...
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Pitt (the Elder), William, 1st Earl of Chatham
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Pitt (the Elder), William, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708–78) British...He entered Parliament in 1735. Pitt was noted for his opposition to...confused and divided one. Created Earl Chatham in 1766, he retired to the House...
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William Pitt the Younger
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Napoleonic France, and attempted to solve the perennial Irish problem. The second son of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, the younger William Pitt was born on May 28, 1759, at the family estate of Hayes, near Bromley, Kent. It was a...
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William Pitt
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
William Pitt 1759-1806, British statesman; 2d son of William Pitt, 1st earl of Chatham. Trained as a lawyer, he entered Parliament in 1781 and in 1782...
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