The alloy was named after Prince Rupert of the Rhine.

Annual sunshine hours vary from 2200 near Cranbrook and Victoria to less than 1300 in Prince Rupert, located on the North Coast, just south of the Alaska Panhandle.

Bays are as follows from the northern tip of the island in a clockwise direction: Agoucha Bay, Autrou Bay, Sandwich Bay, Grand Baptiste Bay, Petit Bapitiste Bay, La Taille Bay, Rough Bay, Marigot Bay, Walker's Rest Bay, Sophia Bay, Londonderry Bay, Mango Hole Bay, Middle Bay, Panto Hole Bay, Petite Soufriere Bay, Soufriere Bay, Woodbridge Bay, Pringles Bay, Prince Rupert Bay, Douglas Bay, Toucari Bay, Marceau Bay.

He also missed the Skeena River near Prince Rupert in northern British Columbia.

Both the fort and the river were named after the sponsor of the expedition, Prince Rupert of the Rhine.

The area was called Rupert's Land after Prince Rupert, the first director of the company and a first cousin of King Charles.

# 1670 – 1682 Prince Rupert of the Rhine

Examples of these include Murmansk, Russia ; Pechenga, Russia ; St. Petersburg, Russia ; Hammerfest, Norway ; Vardø, Norway ; and Prince Rupert Harbour, Canada.

Her godparents included her father's cousin, Prince Rupert of the Rhine.

* 1682 – Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist commander in the English Civil War ( b. 1619 )

* Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada

The first royal visit is speculated to have been by Prince Rupert of the Rhine ( 1619 – 1682 ), probably on his voyage home in India.

* During the English Civil War, Prince Rupert and his men take Liverpool Castle, which is later reclaimed by Sir John Moore.

* December 17 – Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist commander in the English Civil War ( d. 1682 )

* March 4 – English Civil War: Prince Rupert leaves Oxford for Bristol.

* September 10 – English Civil War: Prince Rupert surrenders Bristol.

* June 7 – First Battle of Schooneveld: In a sea battle of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, fought off the Netherlands coast, the Dutch win with the fleet of the United Provinces ( commanded by Michiel de Ruyter ) against the allied Anglo-French fleet commanded by Prince Rupert of the Rhine.

The Alliance was unusual in that a number of Protestants, from Germany and even the son of Prince Rupert of the Stuarts fought.

The fur-trapping duo of explorers Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers convinced the English Crown, primarily Prince Rupert of Bavaria, a favoured cousin of both Charles I and Charles II, that a colonial enterprise in the north would yield wealth in minerals and fur.

It had emerged victorious from the English Civil War ; supported and supplied Cromwell's army in the wars in Scotland and Ireland ; blockaded the royalist fleet of Prince Rupert in Lisbon ; and organised a system of convoys to protect the commerce of the Commonwealth against the swarms of privateers set upon it from every European port.

Prince Rupert of the Rhine was then detached with twenty of these ships to intercept a French squadron on 29 May ( Julian calendar ), which had been thought to be passing through the English Channel, presumably to join the Dutch fleet.

The following day Albemarle ordered the damaged ships forward covering their return on the 3rd until Prince Rupert, returning with his twenty ships, joined him.

With the return of the fresh squadron under Prince Rupert the English now got more ships, yet the Dutch decided the battle on the fourth day, breaking the English line several times.

The combined forces of the English Parliamentarians under Lord Fairfax and the Earl of Manchester and the Scottish Covenanters under the Earl of Leven defeated the Royalists commanded by Prince Rupert of the Rhine and the Marquess of Newcastle.

Prince Rupert had gathered an army which marched through the northwest of England to relieve the city, gathering fresh recruits on the way.

On 10 June, the Duke met for the first time the President of the Imperial War Council, Prince Eugene – accompanied by Count Wratislaw – at the village of Mundelsheim, half-way between the Danube and the Rhine.

This was in part due to the sudden switching of troops from the Rhine to reinforce Prince Eugene in Italy, and part due to the deterioration of Baden ’ s health brought on by the re-opening of a severe foot wound he had received at the storming of the Schellenberg the previous year.

Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Prince Louis of Battenberg and their four children Princess Alice of Battenberg, Louise, George and Louis. Lord Mountbatten was born as His Serene Highness Prince Louis of Battenberg, although his German styles and titles were dropped in 1917.

He was the youngest child and the second son of Prince Louis of Battenberg and his wife Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine.

* Marriage of the River Thames to the Rhine ( masque performed by Gray's Inn and Inner Temple lawyers on the river and in Westminster Hall in celebration of the marriage of Princess Elizabeth to Prince Frederick, Elector Palatine ) ( 1613 )

* 1870 – Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine ( d. 1873 )

While the aging Prince Eugene of Savoy had recommended to the emperor a more warlike posture against potential actions by France in the Rhine valley and northern Italy, only minimal steps were taken to improve imperial defenses on the Rhine.

** Princess Alice, the second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine.

* Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine ( 1809-1877 )

The 1851 marriage of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine and German-Polish noblewoman Countess Julia von Hauke ( created Princess of Battenberg ), provided a sovereign prince of Bulgaria, and queen-consorts for Spain and Sweden, as well as ( through female descent ) the consort of the current Queen of the United Kingdom.

On the Rhine, Coigny was up against Prince Charles, and a fresh army under the Prince de Conti was to assist the Spaniards in Piedmont and Lombardy.

Marshal Traun, summoned from the Rhine, held the king in check in Bohemia, the Hungarian irregulars inflicted numerous minor reverses on the Prussians, and finally Prince Charles arrived with the main army.

On the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 he again commanded the Saxons, who were included in the 2nd army under Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia, his old opponent.

In the town, the Marine brigade, still under the command of the British admiral Sir John Leake, and the governor, Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt ( who had commanded the land forces in August ), and reinforced shortly before by a further 400 Royal Marines, held the fortress against repeated attacks.

The King and his generals wanted to push on, conquer Bohemia and march to Vienna, but Bismarck, worried that Prussian military luck might change or that France might intervene on Austria's side, enlisted the help of the Crown Prince ( who had opposed the war but had commanded one of the Prussian armies at Königgrätz ) to change his father's mind after stormy meetings.

In the year 1614, Prince Khurram ( Shah Jahan ) commanded a vast Mughal Army consisting of over 200, 000 Sowars and subdued the Rajput Maharana of Mewar, who surrendered and submitted to Prince Khurram.

Sending a volunteer corps of the Siamese Expeditionary Force ; composed of 1, 233 modern-equipped and trained men commanded by Field Marshal Prince Chakrabongse Bhuvanath.

* November 13 – Dutch troops commanded by Prince Willem III and Raimundo earl Montecuccoli conquer Bonn.

* September 19 – Battle of Poitiers: The English, commanded by the Prince of Wales, Edward, otherwise known as " the Black Prince ", defeats the French in the Hundred Years ' War, capturing the King, John II of France, in the process.

Moltke had indeed massed three armies in the area — the Prussian First Army with 50, 000 men, commanded by General Karl Von Steinmetz opposite Saarlouis, the Prussian Second Army with 134, 000 men commanded by Prince Friedrich Karl opposite the line Forbach – Spicheren, and the Prussian Third Army with 120, 000 men commanded by Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, poised to cross the border at Wissembourg.

The King was encamped at St. Pancras Priory with a force of infantry, but his son, Prince Edward ( later King Edward I ) commanded the cavalry, at Lewes Castle 500 yards to the north.

The first victory by an unassisted Q-ship came on 24 July 1915 when the Prince Charles, commanded by Lt Mark-Wardlaw, DSO, sank U-36.

In a strong defensive position, the English King ordered that everybody fight on foot and distributed the army in three divisions, one commanded by his sixteen-year-old son, Edward, the Prince of Wales known as the Black Prince.

According to a count after the battle, the bodies of 1, 542 French knights and squires were found in front of where the lines commanded by Prince of Wales, and Sumption assumes another " few hundred " men-at-arms that were cut down in pursuit.

Yuan took the side of the pro foreign faction in the Imperial Court, along with Prince Qing, Li Hongzhang and Ronglu, he refused to side with the Boxers and attack the Eight Nation Alliance forces, joining with other Chinese governors who commanded substantial modernized armies like Zhang Zhidong not participating in the Boxer Rebellion.

On September 21, the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service, commanded by Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, began aerial bombardment of Nanking.