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Cementerio Británico
Cementerio Británico de Buenos Aires, also known in English as Buenos Aires British cemetery, is a cemetery in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is in the district of Chacarita in the northern part of Buenos Aires, adjacent to La Chacarita Cemetery. History of the cemetery The British Cemetery was inaugurated in April 1821; the first President of Argentina, Bernardino Rivadavia, approved the project on 19 March 1821 and the purchase of the land. The first address was Calle Juncal (Juncal Street) today number 866, beside the building that houses Socorro Church. The first burial took place a few days after 19 March 1821 when it was still an open paddock. This burial was of a 30 year old Englishman named John Adams, a carpenter by profession. In 1833 the Cemetery was moved to Calle Victoria (Victoria Street), (today Calle Hipólito Yrigoyen), between Pasco and Pichincha, until 1892. The site is today a plaza called "1 de Mayo". Protestant Cemetery of Victoria In May 1827 the Britis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world. It shares the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, and is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. Argentina is a federal state subdivided into twenty-three provinces, and one autonomous city, which is the federal capital and largest city of the nation, Buenos Aires. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system. Argentina claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and a part of Antarctica. The earliest recorded human presen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merchant Navy (United Kingdom)
The Merchant Navy is the maritime register of the United Kingdom and comprises the seagoing commercial interests of UK-registered ships and their crews. Merchant Navy vessels fly the Red Ensign and are regulated by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA). King George V bestowed the title of "Merchant Navy" on the British merchant shipping fleets following their service in the First World War; a number of other nations have since adopted the title. Previously it had been known as the Mercantile Marine or Merchant Service, although the term "Merchant Navy" was already informally used from the 19th century. History The Merchant Navy has been in existence for a significant period in English and British history, owing its growth to trade and imperial expansion. It can be dated back to the 17th century, when an attempt was made to register all seafarers as a source of labour for the Royal Navy in times of conflict. That registration of merchant seafarers failed, and it was not su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Monte Santiago
The naval Battle of Monte Santiago was fought on 7–8 April 1827, between the Argentine Navy and the Imperial Brazilian Navy, during the Cisplatine War. It was a decisive Brazilian victory, with the allied forces losing its best ships. The battle is highlighted by Argentine historians as one of the most courageous and ferocious naval encounters in the country's history. On that day, Captain Francis Drummond (engaged to Admiral Brown's daughter Elisa) died on deck, firing his marooned ship's cannons instead of retreating. Its result meant a severe setback for the smaller Argentine Navy. From that moment on, only corsair raids against commerce ships could be undertaken by the Argentine Navy and the naval blockade imposed on Buenos Aires by the Brazilian Navy caused serious problems to the export-oriented Argentine economy. The battle The Brazilian Navy had high seas vessels, with more firepower but lesser speed; the Argentine Navy relied on fast maneuvering ships. Some Arge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Drummond
Francis Drummond (also known in Spanish as Francisco Drummond) (1798 – 1827) was an Argentinian naval sailor who died in the naval Battle of Monte Santiago against the Brazilian Imperial Navy on 8 April 1827. This battle was fought on 7–8 April 1827, during the Cisplatine War, between Argentina and Brazil. It was one of the most courageous and ferocious naval encounters in Argentine history. Sergeant Major Drummond was on the 22-gun brigantine ''Independencia''. He died on deck, firing his marooned ship's cannons instead of retreating. Personal details In Dundee the Old Parish Registers state that Francis Drummond was born on 20 September 1798 to Francis Drummond, Shipmaster and Catherine (née Young), daughter of John Young; he was baptized on 27 September 1798. On September 7, 1822, the Prince Regent of Brazil proclaimed independence from Portugal(known as Grito de Ipiranga). In London the recruitment of officers for the navy of the nascent state began and one of thos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Brown (entertainer)
Frank Brown (6 September 1858 Brighton, England – 9 April 1943, Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a clown, acrobat and circus entrepreneur with a long career in Argentina, where he was known as ''El Payaso Inglés'' (''The English Clown)''. Career Coming from a circus family where both his father and grandfather had been clowns, Brown performed acrobatics and clowning from childhood, and was part of tours to Moscow and Mexico. He arrived in Buenos Aires in 1884 when he was around 26 and worked in the Brothers Carlo circus. He took the name ''Pepino el 88'' while performing with the ''criollo'' clown, José Podestá. After an accident in 1893 he only performed as a clown. In 1910 he was part of a performance to celebrate the Argentine centenary, but the tent was destroyed by arson. Some of his those who admired his art were Roberto Payró and Carlos Pellegrini. Rubén Darío wrote about him: ''Franck Brown como los Hanlon Lee'' ''sabe lo trágico de un paso'' ''de payaso y e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bridges (Anglican Missionary)
Thomas Bridges ( – 1898) was an Anglican missionary and linguist, the first to set up a successful mission to the indigenous peoples in Tierra del Fuego, an archipelago shared by Argentina and Chile. Adopted and raised in England by George Pakenham Despard, he accompanied his father to Chile with the Patagonian Missionary Society. After an attack by indigenous people, in 1869 Bridges' father, Despard, left the mission at Keppel Island of the Falkland Islands, to return with his family to England. At the age of 17, Bridges stayed with the mission as its new superintendent. In the late 1860s, he worked to set up a mission at what is now the town of Ushuaia along the southern shore of Tierra del Fuego Island. Ordained and married during a trip to Great Britain in 1868–1869, Bridges returned to the Falkland Islands with his wife. They settled at the mission at Ushuaia, where four of their six children were born. He continued to work with the Selk'nam (Ona) and Yaghan peoples f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucas Bridges
Esteban Lucas Bridges (December 31, 1874, Ushuaia – April 4, 1949, Buenos Aires) was an Anglo-Argentine author, explorer, and rancher. After fighting for the British during World War I, he married and moved with his wife to South Africa, where they developed a ranch with her brother. He was the third child of six and second son of Anglican missionary Reverend Thomas Bridges (1842–98) and "the third white native of Ushuaia" (his elder brother, born in 1872, having been the first) in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, at the southernmost tip of South America. He wrote ''Uttermost Part of the Earth'' (1948) about his family's experiences in Tierra del Fuego, but it was particularly about the Yahgan and Selk'nam indigenous peoples and the effects on them of colonization by Europeans. Early life and education Stephen Lucas Bridges, also called Esteban and going by Lucas, was born to Thomas and Mary Ann Bridges in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego. The third of six children and the second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasily Baumgarten
Vasily (Wilhelm) ''Волков, С.'Генералитет Российской империи Энциклопедический словарь генералов и адмиралов от Петра I до Николая II // А-К. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2009. — 757 с. — Fyodorovich von Baumgarten (russian: Василий (Вильгельм) Фёдорович фон Баумгартен; October 30 7 1879 — May 13, 1962) was Russian Empire and Yugoslavian architect and military engineer. ''Левошко, С.'Баумгартен Василий (Вильгельм) Фёдорович — сайт «Искусство и архитектура русского зарубежья» Фонда имени Дмитрия Лихачёва. Biography Russian Empire Vasily was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. He graduated from the Emperor Alexander II's Cadet Corps at 1897, then from the Nicholas Pavlovich's engineering school at 1900 and Nikolaevsky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingeniero Pablo Nogués
Ingeniero Pablo Nogués (commonly known as Pablo Nogués) is a town in Malvinas Argentinas Partido Malvinas Argentinas Partido is a '' partido'' in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, in the Gran Buenos Aires urban area. It has an area of and according to the preliminary results of the 2010 Census, the population was 321,833 inhabitants. () ... of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is located in the north west of the Greater Buenos Aires urban agglomeration. External links * municipal website map Populated places in Buenos Aires Province Malvinas Argentinas Partido Cities in Argentina {{BuenosAiresAR-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglican Church In South America
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of the largest branches of Christianity, with around 110 million adherents worldwide . Adherents of Anglicanism are called ''Anglicans''; they are also called ''Episcopalians'' in some countries. The majority of Anglicans are members of national or regional ecclesiastical provinces of the international Anglican Communion, which forms the third-largest Christian communion in the world, after the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. These provinces are in full communion with the See of Canterbury and thus with the Archbishop of Canterbury, whom the communion refers to as its '' primus inter pares'' (Latin, 'first among equals'). The Archbishop calls the decennial Lambeth Conference, chairs the meeting of primates, and is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
