Long settled by the Mi ' kmaq Nation, the valley experienced French settlement at the Habitation at Port-Royal, near modern day Annapolis Royal in the western part of the valley, beginning in 1605.

In the Royal Navy the battle has been commemorated by the ship names HMS Aboukir and HMS Nile and in 1998 the 200th anniversary of the battle was commemorated by a visit to Aboukir Bay by the modern frigate HMS Somerset, whose crew laid wreaths in memory of those who lost their lives in the battle.

No modern viceroy has denied Royal Assent to a bill.

* 1984 – Prince Charles calls a proposed addition to the National Gallery, London, a " monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend ," sparking controversies on the proper role of the Royal Family and the course of modern architecture.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, in particular at the height of its power under the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire was one of the most powerful states in the world – a multinational, multilingual empire that stretched from the southern borders of the Holy Roman Empire to the outskirts of Vienna, Royal Hungary ( modern Slovakia ) and the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth in the north to Yemen and Eritrea in the south ; from Algeria in the west to Azerbaijan in the east ; controlling much of southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa.

The Kriegsmarine, already numerically far inferior to Britain's Royal Navy, had lost a sizable portion of its large modern surface units in April 1940 during the Norwegian Campaign, either as complete losses or due to battle damage.

Ceremonial nickel-plated Pickelhaube of the modern Swedish Life Guards ( Swedish Army ) | Royal Life Guard Regiments.

In modern times, the city has been known by its Ottoman Turkish name Üsküp () during the time of Ottoman rule and by the Serbian form Skoplje ( Скопље ) during the time of the Royal Yugoslavia between 1912 and 1941.

This power ( along with others such as appointing ministers in the government, appointing diplomats, declaring war, and signing treaties, for example ) are known as the Royal Prerogative, which in modern times are exercised by the sovereign solely on the advice of the Prime Minister.

The latest in modern architecture was also represented by the likes of the Barcelona Pavilion in Spain and the Royal York Hotel in Toronto, at its completion the tallest building in the British Empire.

No modern Canadian viceroy has denied Royal Assent to a bill.

Following the peace treaty, King George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763 on October 7, 1763, which outlined the division and administration of the newly conquered territory, and to some extent continues to govern relations between the government of modern Canada and the First Nations.

He is a renowned stage actor in modern and classical productions and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Traceable up to six generations, her father's paternal ancestry includes Sampsiceramus, a Syrian chieftain who founded the Royal family of Emesa ( modern Homs, Syria ) and Gaius Julius Bassianus, a high priest from Emesa and father of Roman Empress Julia Domna.

As a result of the report Forster was admitted to the Royal Society at the early age of twenty-two and came to be considered one of the founders of modern scientific travel literature.

A 2003 Royal National Theatre production featured Henry as a modern war general, ridiculing the Iraq invasion.

Elizabeth of York's arms, showing her husband ’ s arms ( the royal arms of England ) Impalement ( heraldry ) | impaling her own paternal arms: Femme: quarterly, first: Royal arms of England | France modern and England, second and third: or, a cross gules ( Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster | de Burgh ), fourth ( Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March | Mortimer ).

Sloops in their modern form were developed by the French Navy as blockade runners to circumvent Royal Navy blockades.

The Royal Society's Hooke papers ( recently discovered after disappearing when Newton took over ) will open up a modern reassessment.

The modern prime meridian, based at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, was established by Sir George Airy in 1851.

The Canadian Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism is often refereed to as the origins of modern political awareness of multiculturalism.

By the time of Herodotus ( c. 475 BC ), the Royal Road of the Persian Empire ran some 2, 857 km from the city of Susa on the Karun ( 250 km east of the Tigris ) to the port of Smyrna ( modern İzmir in Turkey ) on the Aegean Sea.

The Latin word basilica ( derived from Greek, βασιλική στοά, Royal Stoa, the tribunal chamber of a king ), has three distinct applications in modern English.

At the Royal College of Surgeons copies of the same fragments used by the British Museum in their reconstruction were used to produce an entirely different model, one that in brain size and other features resembled a modern human.

According to the Canadian Royal Heritage Trust, Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn — due to his having lived in Canada between 1791 and 1800, and fathering Queen Victoria — is the " ancestor of the modern Canadian Royal Family.

The reburial was attended by sailors from the modern frigate HMS Chatham and a band from the Egyptian Navy, as well as a descendant of the only identified burial, Commander James Russell.

Although not flag officers, modern day commodores in the U. S. Navy rate a blue and white command pennant that is normally flown at their headquarters facilities ashore or from ships that they are embarked aboard when they are the senior officer afloat.

By this time, the U. S. Marines had been issued the modern tripod-mounted M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun in 6mm Lee Navy, which they employed to defeat Spanish infantry at the battle of Cuzco Wells.

The U. S. Navy instituted its modern hull classification system on 17 July 1920, doing away with section patrol numbers, " identification numbers ", and the other numbering systems described above.

The combination of symbol and hull number identify a modern Navy ship uniquely.

They served in the Prussian navy, the navy of the North German Confederation, the Imperial German Navy and briefly in the modern Federal German Navy, the Bundesmarine.

The key characteristic of modern machine guns, their relatively high rate of fire and more importantly machine ( automatic ) loading, came with the Model 1862 Gatling gun, which was adopted by the United States Navy.

By the time of the First World War their ranks had been expanded with the adoption of modern technology in the Navy to include telegraphists, electricians, shipwrights, artificer engineers, etc.

Hansen wrote that the Dithmarschen ships were Raeder's most enduring legacy as their provided the basis for the modern support ship ; after the war, the United States Navy took over the Dithmarschen and renamed it the USS Conech.

The modern Austro-Hungarian Navy used Trieste's shipbuilding facilities for construction and as a base.

At the start of hostilities, the Imperial Japanese Navy contained a fleet of 12 modern warships, ( Izumi being added during the war ), one frigate ( Takao ), 22 torpedo boats, and numerous auxiliary / armed merchant cruisers and converted liners.

The modern, separate Royal Norwegian Navy was founded on April 12, 1814 by Prince Christian Fredrik.

The Norwegian Navy is undergoing a major modernization project to reinforce its position as a modern and competent fleet.

In modern times, it is home to Salamis Naval Base, headquarters for the Hellenic Navy.

* Benjamin F. Tracy, father of the modern Navy.

MU90 Impact triple launcher onboard F221 Hessen, a modern Sachsen class frigate | Sachsen-class frigate of the German Navy

Some modern submarines, such as the Type 212 submarines of the German Navy, are equipped with surface-to-air missile systems, since helicopters and anti-submarine warfare aircraft are significant threats.

There are obvious parallels here with the early bureaucratic structures in modern states, such as the Office of Works or the Navy in 18th century England, where again appointments depended on patronage and were often bought and sold.

The modern Russian Navy thought about naming the third ship of the new s, Admiral Kolchak to commemorate the Admiral but the time was not right and the name was not assigned.

The Italian Royal Navy ( Regia Marina ) had several modern battleships, but no aircraft carriers.