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The senior Rivers, also called William, was the master gunner aboard the Victory and it is thanks to his commonplace book (now kept in the Royal Naval Museum library in Portsmouth) that many of the thoughts of the sailors aboard Nelson's flagship are preserved.[2]
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came about in 1842 when George Pearson, the chief witness in the case respecting the attempt on the life of Queen Victoria...
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As a result of the antagonism, Hunt founded the Anthropological Society and became its president,[7] a position that would...
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"by a Piece of Skin abought 4 inch above the ankle".[2] Rivers asked first for his shoes, then told the gunner's mate to...
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Records from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries show the Rivers family to be solidly middle-class with many...
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Midshipman Rivers, who claimed to be "the man who shot the man who fatally wounded Lord Nelson"[1] proved himself to be a...