• Captain of Calais, King's Lieutenant of Calais (Castle), or Lord Deputy of Calais. Commands were over the castle of Calais, the town, the march and its...
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    History of Calais List of Captains, Lieutenants and Lords Deputies of English Calais The Pale (Ireland) Treasurer of Calais (Middle English, Cales /ˈkæləs/;...
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    Spain, England had neglected her French defenses, and France took English Calais in the Siege of Calais (1558). Thus England lost her last possession in...
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    Yeomen of the Guard, which is filled by the current Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords. Officers ranking below the Captain are Lieutenant, Clerk of the...
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    English pale at Calais between 7 and 8 a.m., and was received by the lord Deputy, the Lieutenant of the Castle, the Knight Porter, and the Marshal of...
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    and early 17th century and was a conflict between a coalition of Irish lords and their Spanish allies against the English and their authorities in Ireland...
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    Jeanne is mentioned in the truce between France and England in 1347 as an English ally. (Truce of Calais, 28 September 1347) A 15th-century manuscript,...
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    Earl of Cardigan and Captain Harvey Garnett Phipps Tuckett; Captain Tuckett was wounded. Cardigan was arrested, tried in the House of Lords and was acquitted...
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    1559–1562 French political crisis (category French Wars of Religion)
    justice and finance. In total 455 deputies were present for the moment. The First Estate (clergy) would send 127 deputies, the Second Estate (nobility) would...
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    Yeoman (category History of the British Isles)
    The English victory at the Battle of Crécy was followed by another victory at the Battle of Poitiers, and a final victory at the Siege of Calais. After...
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  • 2015. Retrieved 23 March 2023. "Palpable emotions at the funeral of Chloé in Calais: Little angel, we are here to tell you that we will never forget you"...
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    promulgation of the Capitulary of Quierzy the following year simultaneously freed the lords up from royal authority and made their titles and charges hereditary...
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    appearance of preparing for war to ensure that they got the peace they hoped for through the recruiting of new captains. The issue of Calais was finally...
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    only Bengali footballer ever to be named among the 10 best captains in the world by the English FA in 1953 Manoj Mohammed, defender for Hyderabad FC Surabuddin...
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    allowed to maintain a guard of 200 (unarmed) men, and the Catholics a similar number led by four captains. The Catholic captains refused to allow themselves...
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    Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, KG, PC (24 June 1532 – 4 September 1588) was an English statesman and the favourite of Elizabeth I from her accession...
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    prolonged resistance and enabled the Allies to secure Calais and Dunkirk. In November, Asquith called a War Council, consisting of himself, Lloyd George...
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    polling list. Philip Le Feuvre topped the poll and was elected for nine years. On 8 December 1945 at the Deputies' election, Ivy Forster of the Progressive...
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  • without a contest", at the age of 13. He sat in the House for three years, before being elevated to the House of Lords upon his father's death. He is...
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    Battle of Towton in 1461 and served as Hastings' deputy at Calais in 1471. Ross speculates that he bore a grudge against Edward for depriving him of a fortune...
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    command for an invasion at Pas de Calais. FUSAG was in reality an intricately constructed fictitious army of decoys, props, and fake radio signal traffic based...
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  • This is a list of notable individual politicians and political organizations who publicly indicated support for Donald Trump in the 2020 United States...
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    12 May 1859 the Government authorised the Lords Lieutenant to raise volunteer corps under the Yeomanry and Volunteer Consolidation Act (1804) in response...
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  • 2020 in the United Kingdom (category CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list)
    the House of Lords (since 2013), cancer. Sir Philip Lavallin Wroughton, 86, English businessman and public servant, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire (1995–2008)...
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  • 2021 in the United Kingdom (category CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list)
    peer, member of the House of Lords (since 1999) (born 1945). 3 August Sir John Enderby, physicist (b. 1931). Allan Stephenson, English-born South African...
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    engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Jean-Jacques Barthe, 85, French politician, deputy (1973–1988), mayor of Calais (1971–2000). Billel...
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    September 1877 French was one of two lieutenants who persuaded 70 drunk and mutinous troopers, who had armed themselves with sticks and threatened "murder" if...
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    agents of the Free French to arrive from Britain landed on the coast of Brittany as early as July 1940. They were Lieutenants Mansion, Saint-Jacques and Corvisart...
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  • Deaths in December 2021 (category Lists of deaths in 2021)
    of the House of Lords (1949–2021) and captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (1979–1991). Sherwin Carlquist, 91, American botanist and photographer...
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    1550s (category CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list)
    bishoprics of Metz, Toul, and Verdun, and the formerly English town of Calais. May 2 – John Knox returns from exile to Scotland, to become the leader of the...
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