ship Formidable (1795), an 80-gun ship of the line French ironclad Formidable, launched 1885 HMS Formidable, five ships, including: HMS Formidable (1777)...
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Formidable was an ironclad barbette ship built for the French Navy between her keel laying in late 1879 and her completion in early 1889. She was the second...
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Formidable (1795–1805), an 80-gun ship of the line Formidable (1824–1836) Formidable (1885), an early battleship [Note that in the early summer of 1795 there...
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1861-10-01 Formidabile class Regia Marina Formidable 1885 Amiral Baudin class French Navy Francesco Morosini 1885 Ruggiero di Lauria class Regia Marina...
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battleships without any sail power. Amiral Baudin (1883) – hulked 1909. Formidable (1885) – stricken 1911. Terrible class (French: Classe Terrible) or Indomptable...
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Sino-French War (redirect from Sino-French War (1883-1885))
the Tonkin War, was a limited conflict fought from August 1884 to April 1885 between the French Third Republic and Qing China for influence in Vietnam...
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Rebellion. Liu used their expertise to transform the Black Flag Army into a formidable fighting force. Under his command in Tonkin he had 7,000 soldiers from...
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Grover Cleveland (section First presidency (1885–1889))
politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. He is the only U.S. president to serve non-consecutive...
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trails of colored smoke. The Republican Guard marching band played "For me formidable" [fr] by Charles Aznavour on the Pont des Arts footbridge, opening the...
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his leadership, the Ughaz possessed the remarkable ability to amass a formidable army of up to 40,000 men in times of conflict or war. Antonio cecchi Italian...
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National Nautical School (section HMS Formidable)
1869 for destitute and neglected boys of Bristol. It was based on HMS Formidable moored off the shore from 1870 until 1906. It then used a purpose built...
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Lạng Sơn campaign (category Conflicts in 1885)
strategically important town of Lạng Sơn in a ten-day campaign mounted under formidable logistical constraints. French strategy in Tonkin was the subject of a...
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Wine Coca nerve tonic. Pemberton's tonic may have been inspired by the formidable success of Vin Mariani, a French-Corsican coca wine, but his recipe additionally...
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Commons. He succeeded William Ewart Gladstone as prime minister in June 1885, and held the office until January 1886. When Gladstone came out in favour...
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1870s and late 1880s. The class comprised two ships: Amiral Baudin and Formidable. After the Italian Navy began building a series of very large ironclads...
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Other translations have also been suggested by modern scholars, including formidable, as well as awe-inspiring. Ivan Vasilyevich was the first son of Vasili...
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campaign which took place in late March, 1885, was one of the last campaigns of the Sino-French War (August 1884–April 1885). It was fought to capture the Pescadores...
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walking embodiment of the 'One Riot, One Ranger' ethos". He "had acquired a formidable reputation as a result of several spectacular captures and the shooting...
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was formed in 1931. Nonetheless, "Britain was a very wealthy country, formidable in arms, ruthless in pursuit of its interests and sitting at the heart...
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which White designed another tranche of eight larger battleships: three Formidable- and five very similar London-class ships. The latter were built as a...
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Machine "Hier, sur la plage de Pendine, l'Anglais J. P. Thomas a atteint la formidable vitesse de 277 kil. à l'heure!". L'Auto: 1. April 28, 1926 – via BnF/Gallica...
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delegates knew it. And no one could deny that Hubert Humphrey would be a formidable political antagonist in the weeks ahead. In an address before labor leaders...
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business kept him away from home for long stretches, but Joe Sr. was a formidable presence in his children's lives. He encouraged them to be ambitious,...
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1877, and by May 1877 he had secured the gift in writing.: ch.XIV The formidable task of moving the obelisk from Alexandria to New York was given to Henry...
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front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. Bryan's most formidable challenger for the nomination was Minnesota Governor John Albert Johnson...
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head on and the Loudon was lifted up with a dizzying rapidity and made a formidable leap... The ship rode at a high angle over the crest of the wave and down...
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1886. The club was influential in the sport's move to professionalism in 1885, and it was a Villa director, William McGregor, who founded the world's first...
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successful period for the Rams and, after promotion in 1926, the club became a formidable force, with high finishes from the late 1920s and all through the 1930s...
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State are preparing for another attack of the now adopted Government; how formidable it may be, I know not. But that Providence which has hitherto smiled on...
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by the king's joint military forces. Alfred's burh system posed such a formidable challenge against Viking attack that when the Vikings returned in 892...
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