Admiral Sir Charles Wager PC (24 February 1666 – 24 May 1743) was an English Royal Navy officer and politician who served as First Lord of the Admiralty...
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scientific method Wager Swayne (1834–1902), American military Governor Sir Charles Wager (1666–1743), British Admiral David Wager (1804–1870), New York...
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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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Wager's Action was a naval confrontation on 8 June 1708 N.S. (28 May O.S.), between a British squadron under Charles Wager and the Spanish treasure fleet...
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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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India. He was the son of John Watson by his wife the sister of Sir Charles Wager (1666–1743), First Lord of the Admiralty. The armorials used by his...
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surrounds it. Wager Bay was first charted by Christopher Middleton during his Arctic explorations of 1742. He named it after Sir Charles Wager and was trapped...
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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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Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey KG PC (13 March 1764 – 17 July 1845), known as Viscount Howick between 1806 and 1807, was a British Whig politician who was...
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seventeenth-century house in Chelsea, London, the former house of Admiral Sir Charles Wager. It is a Grade II* listed building. The house was built for the Stanley...
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