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  1. 19 hours ago · The East India Company Military Seminary was founded in 1809 at Addiscombe, near Croydon, Surrey, to train young officers for service in the company's armies in India. It was based in Addiscombe Place, an early 18th-century mansion. The government took it over in 1858 and renamed it the Royal Indian Military College.

  2. 3 days ago · Inconveniences caused by the Governor of Masulipatam purchasing goods. Account of custom outwards, and of the Governor of Pettapoli breaking his promise in paying with goods in full instead of half money. Marlowe accused of concealing the money received of Sir Henry Middleton for a cable, and of appropriating the Company's goods to his own use.

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  4. 1 day ago · Mississippi Territory. Mississippi Territory was organized on April 7, 1798, from land ceded to the federal government by Georgia. [13] It had four governors appointed by the president of the United States during its 19-year history, including one, David Holmes, who would later serve as state governor.

  5. 2 days ago · The first territorial governor, William Pope Duval, served 12 years, the longest of any Florida governor to date. Since statehood in 1845, there have been 45 people who have served as governor, one of whom served two distinct terms. Four state governors have served two full four-year terms: William D. Bloxham, in two stints, as well as Reubin ...

  6. 2 days ago · Balliol College, Oxford. George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC, FRS, FRGS, FBA (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), styled Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and then Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a prominent British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who ...

  7. 2 days ago · The governor of New Hampshire is the head of government of the U.S. state of New Hampshire and is commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. The current governor is Republican Chris Sununu, who took office on January 5, 2017, and has been re-elected three times. The longest-serving governor is John Taylor Gilman, who served as governor ...

  8. 2 days ago · Henry Middleton (1717–1784), 2nd President of the Continental Congress, he enslaved about 800 people in South Carolina. [202] John Milledge (1757–1818), U.S. Congressman and 26th Governor of Georgia , he enslaved more than 100 people in that state.