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They took for themselves the northern and eastern parts of England. Moreover, Danes from Denmark continued to cross the sea and ravage the coast of Saxon England. They kept the people in constant alarm. Alfred therefore determined to meet the pirates on their own element, the sea. So he built and equipped the first English navy, and in 875 gained the first naval victory ever won by the English.
Wave after wave came the northern invasions led by such men as Bjorn Ironside, and Ragnar Lodbrog. Charles the Bald, fearing to meet these dreaded warriors, bribed them away from the walls of Paris in the year 875. But they came again twelve years afterwards in search of more of the Frenchmen's gold.
At the close of the last fiscal year there were on the pension rolls 234,821 persons, of whom 210,363 were army pensioners, 105,478 being invalids and 104,885 widows and dependent relatives; 3,420 were navy pensioners, of whom 1,636 were invalids and 1,784 widows and dependent relatives; 21,038 were pensioners of the War of 1812, 15,875 of whom were survivors and 5,163 were widows.
Speaking in parliament in 1885, Edward Blake declared that, omitting the last ten millions issued, the company had raised on stock $24,500,000, and, counting the next two dividend payments, they would have paid or provided for dividends $24,875,000. Already $7,000,000 had been paid out in dividends, members of the syndicate receiving $3,610,000 on their $10,000,000 investment.
By the last survey it appears that the inhabited houses in England and Wales amount to 1,574,902, and the population to 9,343,578, which gives an average of 5.875 to each house, in a country where the density of population is certainly less considerable than in Ireland.
Date Name and Type How Sunk Tonnage Lives Lost Aug. 7 Amphion, protected cruiser Mined 3,440 136 Sept. 4 Speedy, torpedo gunboat Mined 810 ... Sept. 5 Pathfinder, protected cruiser Mined 2,940 250 Sept. 7 Warrior, protected cruiser Stranded 13,500 ... Sept. 9 Oceanic, auxiliary cruiser Wrecked 17,000 ... Sept. 18 Fishguard II, training ship Foundered ...... 21 Sept. 19 AE-1, submarine Lost 800 25 Sept. 20 Pegasus, protected cruiser Shelled 2,200 25 Sept. 22 Aboukir, protected cruiser Torpedoed 12,000 510 Sept. 22 Cressy, protected cruiser Torpedoed 12,000 561 Sept. 22 Hogue, protected cruiser Torpedoed 12,000 362 Oct. 16 Hawke, protected cruiser Torpedoed 7,350 350 Oct. 18 E-3, submarine Shelled 800 25 Oct. 27 Audacious, dreadnought Torpedoed 25,000 2 Oct. 31 Hermes, protected cruiser Torpedoed 5,600 ... Nov. 1 Monmouth, armored cruiser Shelled 3,800 540 Nov. 1 Good Hope, armored cruiser Shelled 14,100 875 Nov. 5 D-5, submarine Mined 550 21 Nov. 11 Niger, torpedo gunboat Torpedoed 819 ... Nov. 20 Bulwark, battleship Explosion 15,000 800 Jan. 1 Formidable, battleship Torpedoed 17,000 579 Number of vessels lost, 21.
About half past twelve o'clock, Barbican broke the dead silence by saying that after a careful calculation they were now only about 875 miles from the Moon's surface, a distance two hundred miles less in length than the lunar radius, and which was still to be diminished as they advanced further north.
In three days' march from this point through beautiful park-like country, we arrived at the Asua river. The entire route from Farajoke had been a gentle descent, and I found this point of the Asua in lat N. 3 degrees 12 minutes to be 2,875 feet above the sea level, 1,091 feet lower than Farajoke.
Mag. 1793, p. 197, were given extracts abusive of Johnson from some foolish letters that passed between Miss Seward and Hayley, a poet her equal in feebleness. She, in the Gent. Mag. for 1793, p.875, defended herself and attacked him. His reply is found on p.1009.
Spoken by Hindi 85,675,373 Malayalam 5,428,250 Bengali 41,343,762 Masalmani 3,669,390 Telugu 19,885,137 Sindhi 2,592,341 Marathi 18,892,875 Santhal 1,709,680 Punjabi 17,724,610 Western Pahari 1,523,098 Tamil 15,229,759 Assamese 1,435,820 Gujarathi 10,619,789 Gond 1,379,580 Kanarese 9,751,885 Central Pahari 1,153,384 Uriya 9,010,957 Marwadi 1,147,480 Burmese 5,926,864 Pashtu 1,080,931
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