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  • Thumbnail for Board of Ordnance
    The Board of Ordnance was a British government body. Established in the Tudor period, it had its headquarters in the Tower of London. Its primary responsibilities...
    66 KB (8,276 words) - 09:15, 13 April 2024
  • Code. Chapter 1: Council of National Defense Chapter 2: Board of Ordnance and Fortification (repealed) Chapter 3: Alien Enemies Chapter 4: Espionage...
    6 KB (482 words) - 17:13, 4 June 2024
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    joint Army, Navy and civilian board, headed by Secretary of War William Crowninshield Endicott, known as the Board of Fortifications (now usually referred...
    18 KB (2,140 words) - 14:06, 3 May 2024
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    presentation to the U.S. Board of Ordnance and Fortification in Washington, DC, when he returned to the U.S. This time, the Board was favorably impressed...
    149 KB (17,426 words) - 08:49, 28 July 2024
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    Langley Aerodrome (category Aviation accidents and incidents in 1903)
    of interest in aviation. The group approved the idea, although the Navy did not take on the project. Instead, the Board of Ordnance and Fortification...
    11 KB (1,290 words) - 01:22, 23 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for John Thornton (American politician)
    chairman of the Committee on Fisheries (Sixty-third Congress). He was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson a member of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification...
    4 KB (298 words) - 23:34, 11 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Charles Pelot Summerall
    Charles Pelot Summerall (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the United States Army Center of Military History)
    and was a member of the Ordnance Board from 1915 to 1916, the commission to investigate the manufacture of munitions in 1916, the Board of Ordnance and...
    26 KB (2,541 words) - 03:59, 10 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for 3-inch gun M1903
    3-inch gun M1903 (category World War I artillery of the United States)
    were based on an 1897 Board of Ordnance and Fortification requirement for a weapon intermediate between 6-pounder (57 mm) guns and 5-inch (127 mm) guns...
    28 KB (2,768 words) - 20:00, 3 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Irish Board of Ordnance
    The Board of Ordnance in the Kingdom of Ireland (1542–1800) performed the equivalent duties of the British Board of Ordnance: supplying arms and munitions...
    13 KB (1,197 words) - 13:51, 11 September 2023
  • Master-General of the Ordnance was responsible for all British artillery, engineers, fortifications, military supplies, transport, field hospitals and much else...
    13 KB (1,350 words) - 19:51, 26 July 2024
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    collector and former aide to Pope Pius IX Florent Willems, 82, Belgian painter and art restorer The U.S. Board of Ordnance and Fortification, a division of the...
    38 KB (5,031 words) - 21:27, 2 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Francis Cockrell
    Francis Cockrell (category People of the Interstate Commerce Commission)
    Woodrow Wilson appointed him as the civilian member on the Board of Ordnance and Fortifications for the War Department, where he served until his death in Washington...
    9 KB (794 words) - 16:29, 5 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Surveyor-General of the Ordnance
    The Surveyor-General of the Ordnance was a subordinate of the Master-General of the Ordnance and a member of the Board of Ordnance, a British government...
    9 KB (916 words) - 05:28, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Montgomery M. Macomb
    Montgomery M. Macomb (category American military personnel of the Spanish–American War)
    1902 Macomb was appointed to the Army Ordnance Board and the Board of Ordnance and Fortification. In 1904 and 1905 he was a US military attaché in Manchuria...
    17 KB (1,459 words) - 21:58, 14 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ordnance Survey
    2015, the Ordnance Survey has operated as Ordnance Survey Ltd, a government-owned company, 100% in public ownership. The Ordnance Survey Board remains accountable...
    84 KB (8,586 words) - 11:09, 12 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Royal Ordnance L30
    turrets of Challenger 2 main battle tanks. It is an improved production model of the Royal Ordnance L11 series of rifled tank guns. Challenger 2 tanks and their...
    24 KB (2,363 words) - 05:31, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Warner (Missouri politician)
    William Warner (Missouri politician) (category Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Missouri)
    practice of law and was appointed as a civilian member of the Board of Ordnance and Fortifications and a member of the Board of Managers of the National...
    7 KB (505 words) - 03:43, 19 February 2024
  • Royal Swedish Army Materiel Administration (category Military units and formations of the Swedish Army)
    Administration, when the fortification board and the medical board became independent government agencies (as Fortification Administration (Arméns...
    5 KB (464 words) - 20:35, 9 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
    Royal Military Academy, Woolwich (category Buildings and structures completed in 1805)
    first building was a converted workshop of the Woolwich Arsenal. An attempt had been made by the Board of Ordnance in 1720 to set up an academy within its...
    28 KB (3,051 words) - 20:53, 3 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Frank P. Lahm
    Frank P. Lahm (category Members of the Early Birds of Aviation)
    of a friendship that lasted until the two brothers died. Lahm learned that the Army, through the reluctance and disinterest of the Board of Ordnance and...
    48 KB (6,534 words) - 14:14, 30 April 2024
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