David Wager (March 17, 1804 – July 27, 1870) was an American politician from New York. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Oneida Co.) in...
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Look up wager in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wager can refer to: Wager, the amount of a valuable staked when gambling on an event with an uncertain...
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder is the fifth nonfiction book by American journalist David Grann. The book focuses on the Wager Mutiny...
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Pascal's wager is a philosophical argument advanced by Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), seventeenth-century French mathematician, philosopher, physicist, and...
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Wager Mutiny took place in 1741, after the British warship HMS Wager was wrecked on a desolate island off the south coast of present-day Chile. Wager...
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Times. October 29, 2023. "The Wager review: David Grann's magnificent shipwreck epic | Books | the Guardian".|title=The Wager Review "All the books Barack...
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Wager Island (Spanish: Isla Wager) is an uninhabited island in Guayaneco Archipelago, a remote part of western Patagonia. Located 1,600 kilometres (990...
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HMS Wager was a square-rigged sixth-rate Royal Navy ship of 28 guns. It was built as an East Indiaman in about 1734 and made two voyages to India for...
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Henry Halleck (redirect from Henry Wager Halleck)
Henry Wager Halleck (January 16, 1815 – January 9, 1872) was a senior United States Army officer, scholar, and lawyer. A noted expert in military studies...
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his career. First, he was in command of HMS Wager when it was wrecked in May 1741 on the shores of Wager Island in Chilean Patagonia. Second was his capture...
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