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Old and New London
… stolen by beggars, and retaken in an alley leading towards Cannon Row, while he was being stripped of his clothes. …
Old and New London
… filled with specimens. The Museum was founded in 1851, in Cannon Row, as the nucleus of a National Museum of …
A Dictionary of London
… No.3, on the south side of Salters' Hall, by London Stone, Cannon Street (P.O. Directory). In Walbrook Ward. First …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… is a circular battery, formerly mounted with six pieces of cannon; and since the erection of the quay, a battery, in the …
Old and New London
… at the siege of Roxburgh Castle, by the bursting of a cannon. The third James, after the battle of Sauchieburn, in …
Old and New London
… patrols were marched up and down the streets, and that cannon were planted round Whitehall. The same, too, was the … and Parliament Street, is a narrow thoroughfare called Cannon (or Canon) Row, which has a little history of its own. We learn from Stow and from John Selden that Cannon Rowor, as it was often called, Channel Rowderived its …
Old and New London
… India to the Crown, in 1858, the old Board of Control in Cannon Row was abolished, and a Council of State for India …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… have taken at Sebastopol 400 prisoners and 64 pieces of cannon. My father went sketching to Reigate today. It was …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… the Victoria order of valour, manufactured out of Russian cannon, was distributed to 61 brave men in Hyde Park by Her …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… Sebastopol said that Admiral Nackimoff was killed by a cannon ball on the Great Bastion lately. A small place has … will not keep together when it leaves the mouth of the cannon. 8. Saturday. Went on with 'Choultry,' cut up wood, … said we had taken at Sebastopol, 4000 cannons, 25,000 cannon balls, an immense quantity of powder, 250 anchors, 2 …