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Guillermo Bowles
Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy), Admiral of the Fleet Sir William Bowles, Order of the Bath, KCB (25 May 1780 – 2 July 1869) was a senior Royal Navy officer and Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician. After serving as a junior officer in the French Revolutionary Wars, he became commanding officer of the sloop HMS Zebra (1780), HMS ''Zebra'' and took part in the Battle of Copenhagen (1807), bombardment of Copenhagen in September 1807 during the Napoleonic Wars. As commanding officer of the fifth-rate HMS Medusa (1801), HMS ''Medusa'', he took part in operations off the north coast of Spain and led a naval brigade in a raid on Santoña. Bowles went on to be Commander-in-Chief, South America Station before becoming Third Sea Lord, Third Naval Lord in the Second Peel ministry as well as Member of Parliament (MP) for Launceston (UK Parliament constituency), Launceston in Cornwall. He published a number of papers arguing for innovations in naval warfare and nava ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salisbury
Salisbury ( ) is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers Avon, Nadder and Bourne. The city is approximately from Southampton and from Bath. Salisbury is in the southeast of Wiltshire, near the edge of Salisbury Plain. Salisbury Cathedral was formerly north of the city at Old Sarum. The cathedral was relocated and a settlement grew up around it, which received a city charter in 1227 as . This continued to be its official name until 2009, when Salisbury City Council was established. Salisbury railway station is an interchange between the West of England Main Line and the Wessex Main Line. Stonehenge is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is northwest of Salisbury. Name The name ''Salisbury'', which is first recorded around the year 900 as ''Searoburg'' ( dative ''Searobyrig''), is a partial translation of the Roman Celtic name ''Sorbiodūnum''. The Brittonic suffix ''-dūnon'', meaning "fortress" (in r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
