General Sir Charles William Pasley KCB FRS (8 September 1780 – 19 April 1861) was a British soldier and military engineer who wrote the defining text on...
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Major General Charles Pasley CB (14 November 1824 – 11 November 1890) was a military engineer of the Corps of Royal Engineers, and Colonial Engineer, Commissioner...
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HMS Royal George (1756) (section Pasley (1839))
invented. In 1839 Charles Pasley of the Royal Engineers commenced operations to break up the wreck using barrels of gunpowder. Pasley's team recovered more...
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Pasley may refer to: People Charles Pasley KCB (1780–1861), British soldier and military engineer who wrote the defining text on the role of the post-American...
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Underwater demolition (section Charles Pasley)
underwater obstacles, both for military and civilian purposes. In 1839 Charles Pasley, at the time a colonel of the Royal Engineers, started operations to...
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Company for the colony of Victoria, Australia, under the supervision of Charles Pasley, Cerberus was completed in 1870, and arrived in Port Phillip, the port...
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Charles Joseph La Trobe CB (20 March 1801 – 4 December 1875), commonly Latrobe, was appointed in 1839 superintendent of the Port Phillip District of New...
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Coehoorn Pierre Charles L'Enfant Giovanni Fontana Leslie Groves Cyril Gordon Martin Coulson Norman Mitchell John Rosworm Charles Pasley Vauban Marc René...
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system of Home Riggs Popham used on land, and its later improvement by Charles Pasley. The land system consisted of lines of fixed stations (substantial buildings)...
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lightweight and could be quickly turned into a floating bridge. Lt Col Charles Pasley of the Royal School of Military Engineering at Chatham England developed...
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equipment replaced with another two-arm system invented by Charles Pasley. Each of the arms of Pasley's system could take on one of eight positions and it thus...
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and led to the departure of Major-General Charles Pasley, the incumbent, and one of his subordinates. Pasley had come under criticism after the bridges...
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cerebral circulation and surmised that this was the cause of death. 1840: Charles Pasley, who was involved in the recovery of the sunken warship HMS Royal George...
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Captain Sir Charles Hotham KCB (14 January 1806 – 31 December 1855) was Lieutenant-Governor and, later, Governor of Victoria, Australia from 22 June 1854...
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explosive. The first to use this method for underwater blasting was Charles Pasley who employed it in 1839 to break up the wreck of the British warship...
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the Corps of Royal Military Artificers, Sappers and Miners. Captain Charles Pasley who had been pressing for such an establishment since 1809 was selected...
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tunnel was inspected by the inspector-general of railways, Major-General Charles Pasley, on behalf of the Board of Trade. The tunnel was 244 metres (267 yd)...
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League Bendigo Petition British army in the Eureka Rebellion Charles La Trobe Charles Pasley (engineer) Edward Thonen Eureka Flag Eureka Stockade (fortification)...
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the announced march, Parliament revived a statute dating to the time of Charles II that forbade more than 10 persons from presenting a petition in person...
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received over 5,000 signatures and was presented to Lieutenant-Governor Charles La Trobe by a miner's delegation in August 1853. There were also delegations...
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holder's son, Henry Malcolm Sabine Pasley (born 2009). www.burkespeerage.com Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage; Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors);...
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League Bendigo Petition British army in the Eureka Rebellion Charles La Trobe Charles Pasley (engineer) Edward Thonen Eureka Flag Eureka Stockade (fortification)...
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inspected and approved for the Board of Trade by Major-General Charles Pasley. Pasley had invented a system of optical telegraphy through semaphores in...
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of the same year. He trained at Chatham where he studied under Sir Charles Pasley before reaching India in May 1829. He assisted Captain Hutchinson in...
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Charles Alphonse Doudiet (1832 - 13 June 1913) was a Swiss-born Canadian artist and digger present at the Eureka Stockade, Ballarat, in the British Colony...
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Captain John Thomas led the attack on the Eureka Stockade, with Captain Charles Pasley as his second in command. The government forces at the Ballarat camp...
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League Bendigo Petition British army in the Eureka Rebellion Charles La Trobe Charles Pasley (engineer) Edward Thonen Eureka Flag Eureka Stockade (fortification)...
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Great Britain, in 1843 the Board of Trade (with the advice of engineers Charles Pasley and George Stephenson) introduced the gauge as a compromise. The Railway...
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League Bendigo Petition British army in the Eureka Rebellion Charles La Trobe Charles Pasley (engineer) Edward Thonen Eureka Flag Eureka Stockade (fortification)...
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local traffic after approval by the first Railway Inspector, General Charles Pasley. However, on 24 May 1847, a local train to Ruabon fell through the bridge...
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