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LADY GODIVA
According to the popular story, Lady Godiva took pity on the people of Coventry, who were suffering grievously under her husband’s oppressive taxation. Lady Godiva appealed again and again to her husband, who obstinately refused to remit the tolls. At...
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PRINCE RUPERT
Prince Rupert is best remembered today as the dashing Royalist Cavalry Commander of the English Civil War. One of his most significant Campaigns was the relief of the siege of Newark in 1644 and it is for this reason that...
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GONVILLE BROMHEAD
Gonville Bromhead was awarded the Victoria Cross for his part in the gallant defence of the Rorke’s Drift mission station during the Zulu wars. This action was recalled in the film ‘Zulu’ in which Bromhead was played by Michael Caine....
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SIR RICHARD BYRON
Sir Richard Byron, 2nd Baron Byron (1606 – 4 October 1679) was an English Royalist, knight, and supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War. He fought in the Battle of Edgehill as a “Valiant Colonel”. He also held...
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GENERAL SIKORSKI
Władysław Eugeniusz Sikorski (Polish pronunciation: [vwaˈdɨswaf ɕiˈkɔrskʲi] ( listen); May 20, 1881 – July 4, 1943) was a Polish military and political leader. He was born in Tuszów Narodowy a village in the present-day Subcarpathian Voivodeship of south-eastern Poland, which...
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SIR JOHN SAVAGE
East Stoke is a small village in Nottinghamshire nestled between the A46 Fosse Way trunk road (which cuts through the middle of the village) and the River Trent. It lies about 6 miles southwest of Newark. It is thought to...
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SIR STAPLETON COTTON
Field Marshal Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere GCB, GCH, KSI, PC (14 November 1773 – 21 February 1865), British field-marshal and colonel of the 1st Life Guards, was the second son of Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 5th Baronet of Combermere...
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