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    Sir William Laird Clowes FKC (1 February 1856 – 14 August 1905) was a British journalist and historian whose principal work was The Royal Navy, A History...
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  • printer who established William Clowes Ltd. William Laird Clowes (1856–1905), British journalist and historian William Clowes (surgeon) (1540–1604), English...
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  • Primitive Methodism William Clowes (printer) (1779–1847), founded the printing firm William Clowes Ltd. William Laird Clowes (1856–1905), British journalist...
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    and 1,000 prisoners, or 81% of the total French personnel engaged. William Laird Clowes gives precise figures for each British ship, totalling 218 killed...
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    Victoria – Admiral Markham's Despatches". The Times: 6. 3 July 1893. William Laird Clowes; Clements Robert Markham; Alfred Thayer Mahan; Herbert Wrigley Wilson;...
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    Support for this came initially from a journalist and naval historian William Laird Clowes who suggested that Queen's Regulations required "If two ships under...
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    to 1900, p. 336, Sir William Laird Clowes, 1996 Legendary islands of the Atlantic; a study in medieval geography, p. 142, William H. Babcock, 1922 Annals...
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    to emulate the distinct symbols of the Royal Standard. In 1901, William Laird Clowes wrote an article urging the creation of a common imperial flag. He...
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    191 Clowes, p. 195 Gardiner, p. 44 Adkins, Roy; Adkins, Lesley (2006). The War for All the Oceans. London: Abacus. ISBN 0-349-11916-3. Clowes, William Laird...
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    uncharitable to call into question the courage of Rear-admiral Linois" and William Laird Clowes said in 1900 that "his timidity and want of enterprise threw away...
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    Americas. iUniverse. ISBN 978-1475949278. Retrieved December 3, 2017. William Laird Clowes (1900). The Royal Navy, A History from the Earliest Times to 1900...
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  • four pirate ships from Algeria. "Entirely losing his head," Sir William Laird Clowes would write later, "and paying no attention to the remonstrances...
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    called the False Nile by the English." The British naval historian William Laird Clowes regarded Macdonough's False Nile victory as "a most notable feat...
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    Dutch losses from the battle were well documented, naval historian William Laird Clowes noted that certain unconfirmed reports suggested that the Dutch casualties...
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    Vol. 2, p. 171 Clowes, p. 353 Adkins, Roy & Lesley (2006). The War for All the Oceans. Abacus. ISBN 0-349-11916-3. Clowes, William Laird (1997) [1900]...
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    action to the hired armed lugger Black Joke, and this was repeated by William Laird Clowes in his 1900 history. However, Edward Pelham Brenton, writing in 1836...
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    The Captain of the Mary Rose (1894) by William Laird Clowes The Great War in England in 1897 (1894) by William Le Queux The Yellow Wave (1895) by Kenneth...
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    Leghorn in jeopardy. Historians have criticised Hotham's timidity, William Laird Clowes writing in 1900 stated that "it was an unsatisfactory victory. Hotham...
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  • Convoys, 1917 In the 1894 novel The Captain of the Mary Rose, by William Laird Clowes, Mary Rose was a battleship (similar to the Chilean Capitán Prat)...
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  • illustrator Sir Alfred Gilbert (1854–1934), sculptor and goldsmith Sir William Laird Clowes (1856–1905), naval writer Stanley Owen Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster...
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    (2006). The War for All the Oceans. Abacus. ISBN 978-0-349-11916-8. Clowes, William Laird (1997) [1900]. The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Times...
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    the False Nile" by British sources. The British naval historian William Laird Clowes regarded Macdonough's False Nile victory as "a most notable feat...
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    Tanner, Croatia: A Nation Forged in War (Yale University Press, 2010) William Laird Clowes, The Royal Navy, A History from the Earliest Times to 1900 (Sampson...
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    vent piece?' — Letter from an officer of HMS Euryalus to historian William Laird Clowes many years after the event.[full citation needed] My opinion, and...
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    Note A: In 1827, historian William James named Claude Touffet as the captain of Duguay-Trouin, while William Laird Clowes, writing in 1900, named Jean-Marthe-Adrien...
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  • – military historian Alfred John Church – classical scholar Sir William Laird Clowes – naval historian Sebastian Cox – RAF historian Paul Davis – military...
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    Morse, Cooke, Woolaston, &c. Cassell's miniature cyclopaedia By Sir William Laird Clowes. Page 288. Die Geschichte Der Physik in Grundzügen: th. In den letzten...
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    studied extensively, by British naval historians such as William James in 1827 and William Laird Clowes in 1900. Alexandre Dumas features the campaign from...
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    diamond ring' to his cousin William Pennington of Muncaster, who became ancestor of the barons of Muncaster. Sir William Laird Clowes, et al, The royal navy...
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    1700–1789. London: Mitchell's Military Library. ISBN 9780266528371. William Laird, Clowes; Clements Robert, Markham (1996) [1897]. The Royal Navy: A History...
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