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In 1851 Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (age 31) appointed two Knights of the Garter:
706th Constantine Phipps 1st Marquess Normanby (age 53).
707th Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam 5th and 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam (age 64).
On 2nd February 1852. Around 1am, following a period of heavy rain, the embankment of the Bilberry reservoir collapsed, releasing 86 million gallons of water down the River Holme. It caused 81 deaths and a large amount of damage to property in the valley leaving many homeless and without work. The buildings and structures destroyed included four mills, ten dye houses, three drying stoves, 27 cottages, seven tradesmen's houses, seven shops, seven bridges crossing the River Holme, ten warehouses, eight barns and stables.
The flood was featured on the front page of the Illustrated London News the following day.
Between 7th July 1852 and 31 Jul 1852 Robert Windsor-Clive (age 28) was elected MP Ludlow.
In 1855 Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (age 35) appointed five Knights of the Garter:
709th George Howard 7th Earl Carlisle (age 52).
711th Francis Leveson Gower aka Egerton 1st Earl Ellesmere (age 54).
712th George Hamilton-Gordon 4th Earl Aberdeen (age 70).
713th Emperor Napoléon III (age 46).
714th King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia (age 34).
On 6th June 1855 Captain George Frederick Dawson (age 28) was killed at the Siege of Sevastopol.
On 23rd July 1855 Edward Fitz-Clarence (age 18) was killed at the Siege of Sevastopol.
Edwyn Sherard Burnaby (age 25) and Henry Hugh Manvers Percy (age 37) fought.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
After 1855. St Asaph Cathedral [Map]. Memorial to John and James Blewer killed at the Siege of Sevastopol.
The Battle of the Great Redan was a major battle during the Crimean War, fought between British forces against Russia on 18 June [1855] and 8th of September 1855.
On the 7th September the bombardment opened, and continued until noon of the 8th. The signal for the British to begin their assault (the flag of St. George raised over the Mamelon) was then made and the British then assaulted the Great Redan.
The London Gazette 21997. 7th Regiment. Lieutenant William Hope. Date of Act of Bravery, 18th June, 1855.
After the troops had retreated on the morning of the 18th June, 1855, Lieutenant W. Hope being informed by the late Serjeant-Major William Bacon, who was himself wounded, that Lieutenant and Adjutant Hobson was lying outside the trenches badly wounded, went out to look for him, and found him lying in the old agricultural ditch running towards the left flank of the Redan. He then returned, and got four men to bring him in. Finding, however, that Lieutenant Hobson could not be removed without a stretcher, he then ran back across the open to Egerton's Pit, where he procured one, and carried it to where Lieutenant Hobson was lying.
All this was done under a very heavy fire from the Russian batteries.
7th Regiment. Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Egerton Hale, M.D. Date of Act of Bravery, 8th September, 1855
First. For remaining with an officer who was dangerously wounded, (Captain H. M. Jones, 7th Regiment), in the fifth parallel, on 8th September, 1855, when all the men in the immediate neighbourhood retreated, excepting Lieutenant W. Hope and Dr. Hale; and for endeavouring to rally the men, in conjunction with Lieutenant W. Hope, 7th Royal Fusiliers.
Secondly. For having, on 8th September, 1855, after the regiments had retired into the trenches, cleared the most advanced sap of the wounded, and carried, into the sap, under a heavy fire, several wounded men from the open ground, being assisted by Serjeant Charles Fisher, 7th Royal Fusiliers, Coldstream Guards (late of the 49th Regiment). Brevet-Major John Augustus Conolly Date of Act of Bravery, 26th October, 1854.
In the attack by the Russians against the position held by the Second Division, 26th October, 1854, Major Conolly, then a Lieutenant in the 49th Regiment, while in command of a company of that regiment, on outlying picket, made himself most conspicuous by the gallantry of his behaviour. He came particularly under the observation of the late Field-Marshal Lord Raglan (age 66), while in personal encounter with several Russians, in defence of his post. He ultimately fell, dangerously wounded. Lieutenant Conolly was highly praised in General Orders, and promoted into the Coldstream Guards, as a reward for his exemplary behaviour on this occasion.
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The London Gazette 21997. 7th Regiment.Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Egerton Hale, M.D. Date of Act of Bravery, 8th September, 1855
First. For remaining with an officer who was dangerously wounded, (Captain H. M. Jones, 7th Regiment), in the fifth parallel, on 8th September, 1855, when all the men in the im mediate neighbourhood retreated, excepting Lieutenant W. Hope and Dr. Hale; and for endeavouring.to rally the men, in conjunction with Lieutenant W. Hope, 7th Royal Fusi liers.
Secondly. For having, on 8th September, 1855, after the regiments had retired into the trenches, cleared the most advanced sap of the wounded, and carried, into the sap, under a heavy fire, several wounded men from the open ground, being assisted by Serjeant Charles Fisher, 7th Royal Fusiliers
In 1856 Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (age 36) appointed three Knights of the Garter:
715th Hugh Fortescue 2nd Earl Fortescue (age 72).
716th Henry John Temple 3rd Viscount Palmerston (age 71).
717th Sultan Abdulmejid I (age 32).
In 1857 Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (age 37) appointed two Knights of the Garter:
718th Granville Leveson-Gower 2nd Earl Granville (age 41).
719th Richard Grosvenor 2nd Marquess Westminster (age 61).
On 26th June 1857 the first sixty-two recipients of the Victoria Cross had the decoration pinned to their breasts by Queen Victoria (age 38) in Hyde Park [Map]. Henry Hugh Manvers Percy (age 39), who was the most senior office present to receive the Victoria Cross, commanded on the day.
In September 1857 Edward Adolphus Ferdinand Seymour (age 22) was present at Lucknow during the Relief of Lucknow.
In 1858 Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (age 38) appointed five Knights of the Garter:
720th Frederick III King Prussia (age 26).
721st Arthur Wellesley 2nd Duke Wellington (age 50).
722nd William Cavendish 7th Duke Devonshire (age 49).
723rd King Pedro V of Portugal (age 20).
724th The Prince of Wales (age 16).
On 25th January 1858 Frederick III King Prussia (age 26) and Victoria Empress Germany Queen Consort Prussia (age 17) were married in the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace. She the daughter of Prince Albert Saxe Coburg Gotha (age 38) and Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (age 38). He the son of William I King Prussia (age 60). They were third cousins.
In 1859 Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (age 39) appointed two Knights of the Garter:
725th Dudley Ryder 2nd Earl of Harrowby (age 60).
726th Edward Smith-Stanley 14th Earl of Derby (age 59).
On 2nd January 1861 Frederick William IV King Prussia (age 65) died. His brother William (age 63) succeeded I King Prussia.