...hand in 1806, having led a successful naval force to the Cape of Good Hope to recapture the colony from the Dutch. Popham convinced Lieutenant General Sir David Baird to...
...career, nor his escape, was a laughing matter. Further Reading (in addition to footnotes) George Blake, No Other Choice (London: Jonathan Cape, 1990) Sean Bourke, The Springing of George...
...servants who worked there, and then by the architect he had appointed. Whilst the Prime Minister was far from a radical in his approach to the building, exiling a significant...
...and the Cape of Good Hope. Commons WikimediaMeanwhile the US President Warren G. Harding invited the largest naval powers to what would become The Washington Naval Conference (1921-1922) to discuss...
...went via the Cape Horn, the southernmost tip of Chile; a 3 month long, hard and hazardous journey.The ambition of an American, William Wheelwright, was to establish a line of...
The release of Nelson Mandela from the Victor Verster Prison in Cape Town on 11 February 1990 was the most striking symbol of the end of apartheid in South Africa....
...change was intended to promote further cohesion in No.10, yet the longstanding functions of the Policy Unit and Private Office continued. Adonis was succeeded by Geoff Mulgan, an established key...