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Napier's and duties
Tryon was attached to Octavia, but his duties were to act as transport officer at Annesley Bay which was to be used as a staging post for troops and supplies for Sir Robert Napier's expedition to Magdala in Abyssinia.

Napier's and Britain
According to the Encyclopedia of Britain by Bamber Gascoigne ( 1993 ), it was Catherine Winkworth who, learning of General Charles James Napier's ruthless, unauthorized, and successful campaign to conquer the Indian province of Sind, "... remarked to her teacher that Napier's despatch to the governor general of India, after capturing Sind, should have been Peccavi ( Latin for ' I have sinned ').

Napier's and 1903
In 1903, the 25th Bombay Rifles ( which as the 25th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry had formed part of Napier's force in the conquest of Sindh ) was renamed the 125th Napier's Rifles.

Napier's and was
While producing the first logarithmic tables Napier needed to perform many multiplications, and it was at this point that he designed Napier's bones, an abacus-like device used for multiplication and division.
On Napier's departure, it was added along with the rest of Sindh to the Bombay Presidency, a move that caused considerable resentment among the native Sindhis.
Napier's ethnicity was made up of ( national figure in brackets ): 72. 4 percent European ( 67. 6 percent ), 18. 2 percent Maori ( 14. 7 percent ), 2. 6 percent Asian ( 9. 2 percent ), 2. 6 percent Pacific Islanders ( 6. 9 percent ), 0. 4 percent Middle Eastern / Latin American / African ( 0. 9 percent ), 14. 3 percent ' New Zealanders ' ( 11. 1 percent ), and 0. 03 percent Other ( 0. 04 percent ).
Napier's hand slipped out of the glove that Batman was gripping, sending him into a vat of chemicals.
Edge was sufficiently impressed to encourage Napier to make his own car, collaborating with Harvey du Cros, his former boss at Dunlop, to form Motor Power Company, based in London, agreeing to buy Napier's entire output.
It was a bad year for Napier's racing program ; a 35 hp ( 26 kW ) in the hands of Lt. Col. Mark Mayhew in the Paris-Madrid rally lost its steering hit a tree.
Napier's formulation was awkward to work with, but the book fired Briggs ' imagination-in his lectures at Gresham College he proposed the idea of base 10 logarithms in which the logarithm of 10 would be 1 ; and soon afterwards he wrote to the inventor on the subject.
Back in England he obtained a Treasury post and defended his father's reputation after it was attacked in Napier's history of the Peninsular War.
Napier's Shipyard in Govan was later acquired by William Beardmore and Company in 1900 before being sold on to Harland & Wolff in 1912.
Napier's bones is an abacus created by John Napier for calculation of products and quotients of numbers that was based on Arab mathematics and lattice multiplication used by Matrakci Nasuh in the Umdet-ul Hisab and Fibonacci writing in the Liber Abaci.
Napier's activities there ended during the Battle of Corunna, in which he was wounded and left for dead on the battlefield.
Pania of the Reef at night. A 1. 5 metre statue of Pania was unveiled at Napier's Marine Parade on 10 June 1954 by then Prime Minister Sidney Holland, and has since been much photographed by tourists.
sometime after 22 October 1612 based on Napier's record that on 22 October 1632 Montrose was transacting business as a minor.
Markham also served as geographer to Sir Robert Napier's Abyssinian expeditionary force, and was present in 1868 at the fall of Magdala.
The name was derived from Thomas Napier's Scottish heritage, the Valley of Strathmore, Scotland close to where he once lived.
Edinburgh Napier's Tartan was launched at the same time as the name change in February 2009.
Due to his fluency in multiple languages, Napier's lack of educational qualifications was overlooked and he was appointed to the British embassy at Vienna and later, Constantinople, where he served as an attache.
Napier's tenure in the United State of America was a success and he was considered to be the most acceptable envoy since the independence of the United States of America from the United Kingdom in 1781.
Napier's reputation was literary rather than legal: his only strictly legal works were The Law of Prescription in Scotland, 1839, 2nd edit.

Napier's and with
* See Robinson's Life of Sir Thomas Picton ( London, 1836 ), with which, however, compare Napier's and Oman's histories of the Peninsular War as to controversial points.
His account of the Douro need hardly fear comparison, it has been said, with Napier's.
This capitalised on Napier's experience with both the ' Nomad ', and its increasing involvement with gas turbines.
Having failed to secure a meeting with the Viceroy of Canton, amid a litany of breaches of protocol, misunderstandings approaching complete communication breakdown and stubbornness on both sides, Napier's frustration in failing to break an intractable trade deadlock led to his favoring a military solution.
Napier's career extended into the 1980s, with TV roles in such miniseries as QB VII and such weeklies as The Paper Chase.
In 1834 Napier published Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston ; and in 1839 he edited Napier's unpublished manuscripts with an introduction.
as Napier's bones, was a set of rods inscribed with the
It performed multidigit multiplication by means of a system of metal plates, inscribed with numbers, that were placed inside a box and turned according to Napier's instructions.
At Napier's time, most of the computations were proceeded on broads with tally or jetons.
She realises the letter in Libby's belongings was a plant-dating from an affair with Sharon Napier's mother, Elizabeth, many years before.
* There existed a possibility of the persons responsible for the attack upon Hurburgh and Eley having returned to the bail hostel in the Austin Princess before the same vehicle set off for the Napier's residence with a different team inside
As part of the reforms of the Indian forces, Outram's Rifles were amalgamated in 1922 with five other regiments, including the 125th Napier's Rifles, to form the 6th Rajputana Rifles.
They toured extensively throughout 1999, releasing that same year a self-titled EP recorded with David Holmes at Napier's Venn Production Studios.

Napier's and British
* 125th Napier's Rifles, a historical British military regiment, named for General Sir Charles James Napier
Napier's troops reached the foot of Magdala on 9 April and the next day, Good Friday, where they defeated the 9, 000 troops still loyal to Tewodros at the Battle of Magdala for the loss of only 2 British lives.

Napier's and all
Napier's pentagon ( also known as Napier's circle ) is a mnemonic aid that helps to find all relations between the angles in a right spherical triangle.

Napier's and later
After between forty-five minutes and an hour the gang left in a Renault 5 and a Vauxhall Cavalier stolen from Spicer and Almond ; Timothy Napier's Toyota was later found nearby.
The same principle described by Matrakci Nasuh underlay the later development of the calculating rods known as Napier's bones ( Scotland, 1617 ) and Genaille – Lucas rulers ( France, late 1800s ).

Napier's and famous
The L48, nicknamed Samson, became famous there in the venue's first two years ; in 1908, Napier's Frank Newton turned a half-mile ( 800 m ) at 119. 34 mph ( 190. 05 km / h ) in a stroked ( 178 mm, 7 in ) L48.

0.227 seconds.