#Wellington

THREAD: Copenhagen was an Aristocrat. His dam, Lady Catherine (the warhorse of brigade commander Thomas Grosvenor) was sired by the 1792 Epsom Derby winner and his sire was a Thoroughbred
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3 April 1811 - Battle of Sabugal - Wellington attacks a French corps across river Coa but weather & blunders by Light Division commanders almost leads to a disaster. Plan
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Two days ago, you may recall, one of those rabbit hole segues occurred on Napoleonic Twitter, where @latelordchatham, @ZwhiteHistory and @aquestingvole started everyone discussing, with various levels of seriousness, Wellington
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Thread. 1)There’s been a public playground built on parliament grounds at a cost of $640,000. Of that total,$500,000 was for the slide.Somewhere in Wellington,a person must have sat at his/her
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Wellington Adderley, Harl Taylor, Dr. Thaddeus McDonald and Marvin Wilson all have something in common, their lives were cut short in a string of gruesome murders that took place in
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Ok, if somehow magically you could go you out in Wellington tonight and have a meal somewhere,where would you go and what would you order? I think for me I’d
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Today I presented to the @WgtnCC on the proposed Smarter Ways to Manage Parking policy. Wanted to share a few points from the meeting because how we treat parking has
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All Victoria University students who live in halls of residence have just been informed via email they will be charged $150 per week during the period of Level 3 as
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A number of push notifications will be sent to people who logged on with the COVID Tracer app as a new case was announced today. The alerts were sent to
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I'm tired of seeing this debate about the merits of Wellington so I thought I'd lay down some cool facts about the city. Fact 1: The bucket fountain started off
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Can’t name just one (also haven’t been to the new “arena” since it was re-branded). But here’s my top-3:1. Being in person for the Hero/Kingston finale @ CZW (despite Zandig
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Today is the 205th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo that ended the Napoleonic Wars. Last weekend I visited the site of a bloody struggle in which more than a
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6 April 1812 - The Storming of Badajoz. Wellington orders his men to storm the French held fortress of Badajoz in Spain. What follows is one of the bloodiest engagements
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#Arroyomolinos1811 The Commanders: Rowland Hill was born 11 August 1772 at Prees Hall in Shropshire. The 4th of 16 children, 5 out 6 of his brothers also served in the
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Here is an official photograph of the first 30 Nigerian officers in Nigeria's military.Date: June, 1959Left to right sitting: Captain Robert Adeyinka Adebayo, Captain Philip Effiong, Captain Umeh Ogere Imo,
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Fought #OnThisDay 27 Sept 1810 The Battle of Bucasso.To block Marshal Massena's invasion of Portugal, Wellington chose a very strong position on the heights of Bucasso.His army consisted of 25,000
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