Tag: Ascension Island
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John Edric Blaxland (1847–1935)
A Victorian Naval Career on a Global Stage When family history is rooted in place, farming, chapel, and community, the life of a career naval officer can feel almost anomalous, outward-looking, mobile, and shaped by the machinery of empire rather than the rhythms of locality. John Edric Blaxland was precisely that figure, a professional Royal…
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Anglo-Egyptian War 1882, Ascension Island, Blaxland family, British Empire, British naval officers, family history, Genealogy, history, HMS Hood, imperial history, John Edric Blaxland, military, military biography, military-history, naval history, navy, nineteenth-century Britain, Royal Navy, Victorian Navy, Victorian officers, Zanzibar blockade
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