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5 days ago · Falkland Islands - British Colony, Sovereignty Dispute, Wildlife: The English navigator John Davis in the Desire may have been the first person to sight the Falklands, in 1592, but it was the Dutchman Sebald de Weerdt who made the first undisputed sighting of them about 1600.
5 days ago · Falkland Islands, internally self-governing overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the South Atlantic Ocean. It lies about 300 miles northeast of the southern tip of South America and a similar distance east of the Strait of Magellan. The capital and major town is Stanley, on East Falkland.
6 days ago · Case law: online resources for common law countries: Falklands, Gibraltar, CI & IoM
3 days ago · April 2, 2007 - Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands, which precipitated war between Britain and Argentina. Argentina considered it was reoccupying its own territory but Britain, which saw it as an invasion of a British dependency, recaptured the islands within 74 days. 645 Argentinians, 255 ...
5 days ago · THE MANOR of Cary, the head of a barony of the same name, later included Ansford and parts of Pitcombe and may be coterminous with the medieval administrative unit called Caryland. (fn. 1) The Lovels and their heirs, the Seymours and Zouches, held Cary manor for nearly four centuries.
4 days ago · In 1674 the Master was granted a fixed salary of £2,000 in lieu of poundage, plus a livery payment of £106 3s 4d. The former was reduced to £800 in 1749, increased again to £2,000 in 1760 and finally fixed at £1,400 in 1775.
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