Connaught (1965–1987) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Noted for his difficult temperament and front-running style, he won seven of his...
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Duke of Connaught and Strathearn was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom that was granted on 24 May 1874 by Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom...
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Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (Arthur William Patrick Albert; 1 May 1850 – 16 January 1942) was the seventh child and third son of Queen...
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Connacht (disambiguation) (redirect from The Connaught)
Connacht or Connaught in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Connacht or Connaught is a western province in Ireland. Connacht or Connaught may also refer...
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Pakistan Army. Previously, it was known as the 6th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers (Watson's Horse), and was a regular cavalry regiment in the British Indian...
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The Connaught Rangers ("The Devil's Own") was an Irish line infantry regiment of the British Army formed by the amalgamation of the 88th Regiment of Foot...
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Connaught Square in London, England, was the first square of city houses to be built in Bayswater. It is named after a royal, the Earl of Connaught who...
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1920, a famous scandal in horse racing occurred at Connaught. The horse Westy Hogan was disguised to look like the inferior horse Little Boy. The disguise...
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John Danaher (VC) (category Connaught Rangers soldiers)
Danaher resigned from the Nourse's Horse in March 1881, and subsequently joined a British Army unit, the Connaught Rangers. He returned to Limerick with...
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Connaught Tunnel The Connaught Tunnel is in southeastern British Columbia, on the Revelstoke–Donald segment. The 5.022-mile (8.082 km) tunnel carries the...
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to 1916: Connaught Cup Stakes, a horse-racing competition Challenge Trophy, an association football competition formerly known as the Connaught Cup. The...
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The Connaught Medical Research Laboratories was a non-commercial public health entity established by Dr. John G. FitzGerald in 1914 in Toronto to produce...
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with Connaught but she rejects his advances. A community race is held on St. Stephen's Day and Connaught's horse, The Bard, is due to race. The horse's jockey...
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Connaught's Own Lancers: Formed by merging 13th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers (Watson's Horse) and 16th Cavalry. Renamed as 6th Duke of Connaught's...
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The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own) is a Primary Reserve armoured reconnaissance (recce) regiment of the Canadian Army; the regiment...
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nostril. She was from the fifth crop of foals sired by Connaught, a talented but temperamental horse who finished second in the 1968 Epsom Derby before winning...
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daughter of Victoria and Albert's third son, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn. The death of Count Carl Johan Bernadotte marked the end...
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Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652 (redirect from To hell or to Connaught)
Connaught", west of the River Shannon. However, according to historian Padraig Lenihan, "The Cromwellians did not proclaim 'To Hell or to Connaught'...
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of the Connaught Rangers, which existed as an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1922. When the 88th Regiment of Foot (Connaught Rangers)...
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The Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, also known as the Blues, or abbreviated as RHG, was one of the Cavalry regiments of the British Army, and part of...
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Quis separabit? (category Connaught Rangers)
regiment of the British Army from 1922 to 1992. It was also the motto of the Connaught Rangers, an Irish regiment of the British Army, from its amalgamation...
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The South Irish Horse was a Special Reserve cavalry regiment of the British Army. Formed as an Imperial Yeomanry regiment in 1902 as the South of Ireland...
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2nd Duchess of Fife married Prince Arthur of Connaught, the only son of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, third son of Queen Victoria and...
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Cape Town Highlanders (redirect from Cape Town Highlanders, The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn's Own)
Duke of Connaught and Strathearn became colonel-in-chief of the regiment in 1906, and the regiment's name was thus changed to the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn's...
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The Connaught Cup Stakes is a Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Run in late May, the Grade II race...
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forward and requested that the Connaughts assist on the left flank. Although only 'A' Company was ordered forward, the Connaughts had become very mixed and...
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The South Alberta Light Horse (SALH) is a Canadian Army armoured reconnaissance regiment of the Canadian Army Reserve. It traces its complicated lineage...
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wife, Princess Margaret of Connaught. Her mother was a daughter of Queen Victoria's third son Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn by his wife...
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Epsom Derby (redirect from English horse race Derby)
Derby Stakes, also known as the Derby or the Epsom Derby, is a Group 1 flat horse race in England open to three-year-old colts and fillies. It is run at Epsom...
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Merryfield persuaded a repertory company to admit him. He performed at the Connaught theatre in Worthing in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and...
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