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Audacious-class ironclad, Victorian-era battleship class of the Royal Navy


Alma-class ironclad

This was an attack by the French on the forts defending the mouth of the Perfume River, leading to the Vietnamese capital of Huế in an attempt to intimidate the Vietnamese government.

Andrew Amers-Morrison

Andy Morrison described the mix-up as "audacious" and Suketu Patel, chairman of the Seychelles Football Federation (SFF) conceded "We thought we were getting the real Andy Morrison".

Anita Hoffman

As per CNN, "in one of her most audacious moves, she went on a sort of diplomatic mission to Algeria to meet with Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver, and try to forge a coalition between the Panthers and the Yippies."

Bill Edrich

On 12 August 1941 he participated in a low-level daylight attack by Bristol Blenheim bombers against power stations in the Cologne area, described by the Daily Telegraph as "the RAF's most audacious and dangerous low-level bombing raid".

Carl Gustaf Nordin

Like Jean Hardouin he got to believe that a great deal of what is called classical literature was compiled by anonymous authors at a much later date, and he used frequently to startle his colleagues, the Gustavian academicians, by his audacious paradoxes.

Christmas Bullet

They then paid a visit to the Continental Aircraft Company, of Long Island, where Christmas convinced management that his planned aircraft would be the key element in an audacious plot to kidnap Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.

City-class ironclad

At about the same time that McClellan received the letter, he also had a naval officer, Commander John Rodgers, added to his staff.

Eric Burchmore

In October 1944, No. 159 Squadron mounted an audacious minelaying raid on the Japanese held port of Penang.

Eugénie Fougère

The ‘audacious’ Fougère made her debut in the United States in 1893 at Broadway’s Koster and Bial's Music Hall in New York.

Francesco Ferruccio

Ferruccio proposed to the government of the Republic that he should march on Rome and terrorize the Pope by the threat of a sack into making peace with Florence on favorable terms, but although the war committee appointed him commissioner-general for the operations outside the city, they rejected his scheme as too audacious.

Hector-class ironclad

Hector was assigned as Queen Victoria's guard ship nearly every summer during this period when the Queen and her family, were in residence in Osborne House on the Isle of Wight.

Jules Maxwell

He made the soundtrack for Oscar nominated short film "Dance Lexie Dance” directed by Tim Loane, an old college friend from Queen’s, and also collaborated with Wayne McGregor for the first time on an audacious dance project called “Cybergeneration” for Belfast Festival.

Kaiser-class ironclad

The Kaiser-class design was prepared in 1869 by Sir Edward Reed; their construction was awarded to the Samuda Brothers shipyard in London.

The squadron, under the command of Rear Admiral Carl Ferdinand Batsch, steamed to the ports of Haifa and Jaffa in July 1877, but found no significant tensions ashore.

Kim Jin-hi

Her selection of the instrument was audacious; dating to the fourth century, the geomungo had been favored particularly by male Confucian scholars, and was generally not played by women.

Lord Randolph Churchill

Along with Sir Henry Drummond-Wolff, Sir John Gorst and occasionally Arthur Balfour, he made himself known as the audacious opponent of the Liberal administration and the unsparing critic of the Conservative front bench.

Prince Consort-class ironclad

Clowes, William Laird Four Modern Naval Campaigns, Historical Strategical, and Tactical, first published Unit Library, 1902, reprinted Cornmarket Press, 1970.

Brown, David K. Warrior to Dreadnought, Warship Development 1860–1905, published Chatham Publishing, 1997.

Lambert, Andrew Warrior, Restoring the World's First Ironclad, published Conway Maritime Press, 1987.

Lambert, Andrew Battleships in Transition, the Creation of the Steam Battlefleet 1815-1860, published Conway Maritime Press, 1984.

Pulin Behari Das

The audacious dacoity was committed in broad daylight by a group of revolutionaries at the residence of the zamindar of Barrah, under the Nawabganj police station in the district of Dhaka.

Sex on the Moon

Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History is a book by Ben Mezrich, author of New York Times Best Seller Bringing Down the House and of The Accidental Billionaires.

Sir Samuel Hood, 1st Baronet

Early in 1793, after the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars, Hood went to the Mediterranean in Juno under his cousin Lord Hood, and distinguished himself by an audacious feat of coolness and seamanship in extricating his vessel from the harbour of Toulon, which he had entered in ignorance of Lord Hood's withdrawal.

Virginio Orsini

Afraid of the new Pope’s intentions to curb the power of his audacious barons, Virginio approached King Ferdinand I of Naples, who was suspicious of Alexander’s relations to King Ferdinand II of Aragon, his formal overlord.


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