- Food is any
substance consumed by an
organism for
nutritional support. Food is
usually of plant, animal, or
fungal origin and
contains essential nutrients...
- The
Victual Brothers (German: Vitalienbrüder) were a
loosely organized guild of
privateers who
later turned to piracy. They
affected maritime trade during...
- The
Commissioners for the
Victualling of the Navy,
often called the
Victualling Commissioners or
Victualling Board, was the body
responsible under the...
- be
leader of a
group of
privateers known as the
Victual Brothers (German: Vitalienbrüder). The
Victual Brothers (Latin: victualia) were
originally hired...
- the
discovery of the cape sea route, Jan van
Riebeeck established a
victualling station at the Cape of Good Hope, at what
would become Cape Town, on...
- crowns. In an
attempt to
destabilize Denmark, the Mecklenburg's
hired the
Victual Brothers, pirates, to
disrupt trade in 1392. They used
Visby on Gotland...
- The
Amrit class of
victualling barge is a pair of
yardcraft built by The
Peoples Engineering &
Motor Works Ltd, Salkia,
Howrah for the
Indian Navy. Nikaraksha-class...
-
merchants formed a
state within a
state in
Bergen for generations. The "
Victual Brothers"
launched three devastating pirate raids on the port (the last...
- In the age of sail,
arming or
victualling a war ship, or war
vessel had the
meaning of
equipping the
ships with all the
materials to
navigate and the...
- The
Victualling Department originally known as the
Department of the
Comptroller of
Victualling and
Transport Services or the
Victualling Office, also...
