William Grant Stairs information

William Grant Stairs (1 July 1863 – 9 June 1892) was a Canadian-British explorer, soldier, and adventurer who had a leading role in two of the most controversial...

Stairs family of merchants and shippers founded by William Machin Stairs (1789–1865) that included the Victorian era explorer, William Grant Stairs....

William Stairs is the name of: William Grant Stairs (1863–1892), Canadian-British soldier and explorer of Africa William James Stairs (1819–1906), Canadian...

to a brotherhood with myself." Stanley insulted and shouted at William Grant Stairs and Arthur Jephson for mistreating the Wangwana. He described the...

employees of the Congo Free State. Robert Henry Nelson, William Bonny, William Grant Stairs, and Edmund Musgrave Barttelot were all military men. Barttelot...

treaty was being assiduously courted by the imperial powers. William Grant Stairs Stairs Expedition Yeke Kingdom Yeke people Katanga Province Congo Free...

American painter (d. 1940) 1863 – William Grant Stairs, Canadian-English captain and explorer (d. 1892) 1869 – William Strunk Jr., American author and educator...

died or were killed in Nigeria. Military history of Nova Scotia William Grant Stairs Texts Pothier Bernard. A Nova Scotian in West Africa: Lieutenant...

(1992) Vanessa Lawrence (2014) William C. Dunbar (1890) William Grant Stairs (1890) William MacGregor (1890) William Mackinnon (1890) Yann Arthus-Bertrand...

Africa Hans Staden German 16th Brazil Ed Stafford English 21st Amazon William Grant Stairs Canadian 19th Central Africa Henry Morton Stanley Welsh 19th East...

that year Leopold II sent the well-armed Stairs Expedition, led by the Canadian mercenary William Grant Stairs, to take possession of Katanga one way or...

non-African "officers" (e.g., Major Edmund Musgrave Barttelot, Captain William Grant Stairs, Mr. Arthur Jephson, and Thomas Heazle Parke, surgeon of the expedition)...

1795) 1889 – Mike Burke, American baseball player (b. 1854) 1892 – William Grant Stairs, Canadian-English captain and explorer (b. 1863) 1901 – Adolf Bötticher...

the 1891–92 Stairs Expedition—a multinational force in Leopold's service, led by a Canadian British Army officer, Captain William Grant Stairs—which violently...

consequently the leader of CFS expedition responsible, Canadian Captain William Grant Stairs was viewed by some in Northern Rhodesia as a traitor to the British...

1818) Robert Ford, American assassin of Jesse James (b. 1862) June 9 William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (b. 1863) Yoshitoshi, Japanese artist (b. 1839)...

turning 60 years old Jaahnavi Sriperambuduru (born 2001) India. William Grant Stairs (1863–1892) Canada, first non-African to climb in the Ruwenzoris...

Brodie Mackay, Captain Royal Engineers; William Henry Robinson, Captain Royal Engineers; and William Grant Stairs, Captain the Welsh Regiment. The latest...

Scotia) Captain William B.C.A. Parker, Crimean War Sir John Coape Sherbrooke, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, War of 1812 William Grant Stairs, Captain,...

Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1934) July 1 – William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (d. 1892) July 4 – Hugo Winckler, German archaeologist...

Clonard Keating – Nigeria, Plaque, Halifax Public Gardens, Nova Scotia William Grant Stairs – Africa Harold Lothrop Borden – Second Boer War, Borden Monument...

commanding HMS Valiant in 1790. William sought to be made a duke like his elder brothers, and to receive a similar parliamentary grant, but his father was reluctant...

campaign in Ireland directly referenced Frederic William Burton’s The Meeting on the Turret Stairs, one of the National Gallery of Ireland’s most celebrated...

expedition, the Stairs Expedition to Katanga, was decisive. At the age of 25 the Canadian-born engineer, soldier and mercenary William Grant Stairs had been...

Senator and 6th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b.1822) June 9 – William Grant Stairs, explorer, soldier and adventurer (b.1863) June 29 – John Robson...