William Grant Stairs (1 July 1863 – 9 June 1892) was a Canadian-British explorer, soldier, and adventurer who had a leading role in two of the most controversial...
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Stairs family of merchants and shippers founded by William Machin Stairs (1789–1865) that included the Victorian era explorer, William Grant Stairs....
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William Stairs is the name of: William Grant Stairs (1863–1892), Canadian-British soldier and explorer of Africa William James Stairs (1819–1906), Canadian...
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to a brotherhood with myself." Stanley insulted and shouted at William Grant Stairs and Arthur Jephson for mistreating the Wangwana. He described the...
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employees of the Congo Free State. Robert Henry Nelson, William Bonny, William Grant Stairs, and Edmund Musgrave Barttelot were all military men. Barttelot...
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Canadian baseball player William Grant Stairs (1863–1892), Canadian-British explorer, leader of the Stairs Expedition William J. Stairs (born 1956), Canadian...
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treaty was being assiduously courted by the imperial powers. William Grant Stairs Stairs Expedition Yeke Kingdom Yeke people Katanga Province Congo Free...
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(1992) Vanessa Lawrence (2014) William C. Dunbar (1890) William Grant Stairs (1890) William MacGregor (1890) William Mackinnon (1890) Yann Arthus-Bertrand...
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American painter (d. 1940) 1863 – William Grant Stairs, Canadian-English captain and explorer (d. 1892) 1869 – William Strunk Jr., American author and educator...
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non-African "officers" (e.g., Major Edmund Musgrave Barttelot, Captain William Grant Stairs, Mr. Arthur Jephson, and Thomas Heazle Parke, surgeon of the expedition)...
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Africa Hans Staden German 16th Brazil Ed Stafford English 21st Amazon William Grant Stairs Canadian 19th Central Africa Henry Morton Stanley Welsh 19th East...
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died or were killed in Nigeria. Military history of Nova Scotia William Grant Stairs Texts Pothier Bernard. A Nova Scotian in West Africa: Lieutenant...
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that year Leopold II sent the well-armed Stairs Expedition, led by the Canadian mercenary William Grant Stairs, to take possession of Katanga one way or...
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the 1891–92 Stairs Expedition—a multinational force in Leopold's service, led by a Canadian British Army officer, Captain William Grant Stairs—which violently...
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Scotia) Captain William B.C.A. Parker, Crimean War Sir John Coape Sherbrooke, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, War of 1812 William Grant Stairs, Captain,...
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1818) Robert Ford, American assassin of Jesse James (b. 1862) June 9 William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (b. 1863) Yoshitoshi, Japanese artist (b. 1839)...
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Brodie Mackay, Captain Royal Engineers; William Henry Robinson, Captain Royal Engineers; and William Grant Stairs, Captain the Welsh Regiment. The latest...
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1795) 1889 – Mike Burke, American baseball player (b. 1854) 1892 – William Grant Stairs, Canadian-English captain and explorer (b. 1863) 1901 – Adolf Bötticher...
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turning 60 years old Jaahnavi Sriperambuduru (born 2001) India. William Grant Stairs (1863–1892) Canada, first non-African to climb in the Ruwenzoris...
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Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1934) July 1 – William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (d. 1892) July 4 – Hugo Winckler, German archaeologist...
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consequently the leader of CFS expedition responsible, Canadian Captain William Grant Stairs was viewed by some in Northern Rhodesia as a traitor to the British...
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Senator and 6th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b.1822) June 9 – William Grant Stairs, explorer, soldier and adventurer (b.1863) June 29 – John Robson...
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(ret) David V Jacobson (CMR RMC 1975) Rhodes Scholar 1975 10941 Doctor Grant M Gibbs (RMC 1976) Rhodes Scholar 1976 15040 Mr Paul E Stanborough (RMC...
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Brodie Mackay, Captain Royal Engineers; William Henry Robinson, Captain Royal Engineers; and William Grant Stairs, Captain the Welsh Regiment, but was lost...
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Faulknor taught and converted a small group of redeemed slaves. William Grant Stairs (1863–1892), a Canadian born in Halifax, Nova Scotia and educated...
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expedition, the Stairs Expedition to Katanga, was decisive. At the age of 25 the Canadian-born engineer, soldier and mercenary William Grant Stairs had been...
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Furthermore, after a conflict with the natives, Parke had to save William Grant Stairs by orally sucking the poison out of an arrow wound. During the expedition...
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Parke, Robert H. Nelson, James S. Jameson, John Rose Troup, William Bonny, William Grant Stairs, Edmund Musgrave Barttelot, and Arthur J. M. Jephson); the...
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Clonard Keating – Nigeria, Plaque, Halifax Public Gardens, Nova Scotia William Grant Stairs – Africa Harold Lothrop Borden – Second Boer War, Borden Monument...
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politician and Premier of Prince Edward Island (died 1947) July 1 — William Grant Stairs, explorer, soldier and adventurer (died 1892) October 4 — Peter Veniot...
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