• and recorded a Group 1 Platinum Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot. Naval Crown is a bay horse with a white socks on his hind legs who was bred and owned by...
    14 KB (1,705 words) - 14:36, 28 February 2023
  • lance-corporal of horse and that above is staff corporal. A corporal of horse wears three rank chevrons surmounted by a metal crown. They are addressed...
    3 KB (229 words) - 05:23, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway
    for the United Nations, and a philanthropist. He is a trained naval officer and, as crown prince, a top military official in the Norwegian Armed Forces...
    35 KB (2,834 words) - 06:00, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sir Barton
    Sir Barton (category Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing winners)
    English Triple Crown winner Isinglass. His half-brother was 1908 juvenile champion Sir Martin. Sir Barton was known for being a "grouchy" horse, and it was...
    16 KB (1,583 words) - 01:12, 8 September 2024
  • appointment conferred on colonels (as commodore was an appointment conferred on naval captains) rather than a substantive rank. However, from 1 November 1947...
    8 KB (769 words) - 08:38, 5 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Indian Navy
    Indian Navy (redirect from Indian Naval)
    prefix for naval vessels was changed from His Majesty's Indian Ship (HMIS) to Indian Naval Ship (INS). At the same time, the imperial crown in insignia...
    199 KB (17,027 words) - 15:42, 12 November 2024
  • Naval warfare is combat in and on the sea, the ocean, or any other battlespace involving a major body of water such as a large lake or wide river. The...
    81 KB (10,285 words) - 16:39, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Honourable Company of Master Mariners
    ISBN 9781574092431. Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects. Volume 95Royal Institution of Naval Architects, 1953. PAGE XXVII Cawthorne, Nigel (2021)...
    8 KB (785 words) - 05:14, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Saint George's Cross
    help at the siege of Antioch on 28 June 1098 from a great army on white horses, clothed in white and bearing white banners, led by St George, St Demetrius...
    23 KB (2,724 words) - 06:38, 13 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten
    Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten (category Members of the Royal Swedish Society of Naval Sciences)
    and the Life Regiment Dragoons (K 2) and in 1928 in the Life Regiment of Horse (K 1). Gustaf Adolf continued his military training and became major in...
    21 KB (1,691 words) - 09:24, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov
    Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov (category Arabian horse breeders and trainers)
    outstanding Russian military commanders of all time; and although he lacked naval experience, he was the only authority in those circumstances who could ensure...
    17 KB (1,813 words) - 08:50, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Matapan
    Battle of Matapan (category Naval battles of the Ottoman–Venetian Wars)
    Matapan, on the coast of the Mani Peninsula, now in southern Greece. The naval battle was between the Armada Grossa of the Republic of Venice, supported...
    12 KB (1,137 words) - 15:56, 5 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Viscount Bearsted
    two Lions' Heads erased in chief and in base a Naval Crown Or a Heart Gules Supporters Dexter: a Horse Argent; Sinister: a Dragon Gules; each charged...
    3 KB (245 words) - 19:51, 7 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Wilhelm II
    Wilhelm II (category Crown princes of Prussia)
    much to alienate itself from other great powers by initiating a massive naval build-up, contesting French control of Morocco, and building a railway through...
    139 KB (16,304 words) - 20:14, 8 November 2024
  • had a rank insignia based on the two bands of a naval lieutenant with the addition of an eagle and crown above the bands. It was superseded by the rank...
    6 KB (620 words) - 14:03, 16 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site
    The National Historic Site was established in 1945. In 1697, the English Crown awarded a 220 sq mi (570 km2) land grant (the "Great Nine Partners Patent")...
    16 KB (1,786 words) - 00:29, 4 October 2024
  • have been identical to the Crown of the Preserver mentioned below. Naval crown – (Latin: corona navalis), was a gold crown awarded to the first man who...
    15 KB (2,107 words) - 15:38, 16 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for USS Arleigh Burke
    USS Arleigh Burke (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    "Green Crown" during Operation Provide Promise. During her second deployment in 1995, Arleigh Burke steamed in the Mediterranean Sea as the "Red Crown" in...
    21 KB (2,093 words) - 04:32, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for 9th Horse (Deccan Horse)
    The Deccan Horse or 9 Horse is one of the oldest and most decorated armoured regiments of the Indian Army. The Royal Deccan Horse (9th Horse), which was...
    29 KB (2,997 words) - 01:01, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Frederik IX
    Frederik IX (category Crown princes of Denmark)
    Alexandrine). He became crown prince when his father succeeded as king in 1912. As a young man, he was educated at the Royal Danish Naval Academy. In 1935,...
    39 KB (3,454 words) - 21:05, 16 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for George I of Greece
    George I of Greece (category Grand Crosses of Naval Merit)
    German. He embarked on a career in the Royal Danish Navy, and enrolled as a naval cadet along with his elder brother Frederick. While Frederick was described...
    54 KB (5,832 words) - 07:38, 2 November 2024
  • Equerry (category Horse-related professions and professionals)
    Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Crown Equerry Crown Equerry (Sweden) Batman (military) Adjutant Master of the Horse Valet PACMAN Archived 12 September...
    22 KB (1,711 words) - 01:09, 17 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Minister of National Defence (Canada)
    Defence (MND; French: ministre de la défense nationale) is a minister of the Crown in the Cabinet of Canada responsible for the management and direction of...
    31 KB (1,103 words) - 18:26, 22 October 2024
  • for rank insignia. "Wavy" sleeve braid was adopted for the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve (RCNVR) and rings of narrow interwoven gold lace for the...
    69 KB (2,057 words) - 13:16, 22 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Huzzah
    intimidating the enemy. In the book Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket, military historian Richard Holmes indicates that this was given...
    5 KB (574 words) - 15:57, 17 September 2024
  • protect him from assassination attempts by rivals for the throne. During a naval battle in the Colosseum, Lucius leads his side to victory and fires a crossbow...
    89 KB (8,451 words) - 00:39, 23 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Edward VII
    nephews; Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain, Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden, Crown Princess Marie of Romania, Crown Princess Sophia of Greece, and Empress...
    108 KB (11,090 words) - 23:13, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anne, Princess Royal
    Anne, Princess Royal (category Grand Cordons of the Order of the Precious Crown)
    fourth at the Rushall Horse Trials. At age 21, she won the individual title at the European Eventing Championship with her home-bred horse Doublet and was voted...
    110 KB (8,507 words) - 16:37, 22 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Royal Marines Band Service
    Marines Divisional Bands were formed at the naval dockyard-bases of Chatham, Plymouth and Portsmouth and the naval gathering-point of Deal in the Downs, and...
    33 KB (4,041 words) - 11:31, 19 November 2024
  • Thalassocracy (category Naval history)
    ("land-based hegemony"). The term thalassocracy can also simply refer to naval supremacy, in either military or commercial senses. The ancient Greeks first...
    22 KB (2,384 words) - 05:06, 15 November 2024