In geography, a col is a narrow, high pass through a mountain chain formed by the meeting of river or glacier valleys from opposite sides of the range. Research Col
Robert Southwell was an English Jesuit priest and poet. He was born in 1561 at Horsham St Faith, Norwich and died in 1595. Educated at Dousai and Paris, in 1577 he was received into the Society of Jesus at Rome where he became prefect of the English college. He was ordained as a priest in 1584, and returned to England in 1587 to minister his col-religionists in defiance of the Act excluding English-born Roman Catholic priests from the kingdom. He became chaplain to the countess of Arundel, but in 1592 was betrayed and was imprisoned in the Tower of London where he was tortured, including suffering thirteen separate sessions on the rack, before being hanged at Tyburn on February the 21st 1595. Research Robert Southwell
The Capture Of Trent was an Italian success over Austrian forces on November the 3rd 1918 during the Great War. The offensive of General Diaz against the Austrians, which began at the fourth week of October 1918, in the Monte Grappa and Middle Piave areas, and at the end of the month on the Asiago Plateau, was extended to the whole Trentino area, from the Astico on the south-east to the Stelvio Pass on the north-west, by the coming into action of the 1st and 7th Italian armies on November the 2nd.
On November the 2nd the first army captured Monte Majo, attacked the Borcola Pass in the Posina sector, took Monte Cimone on the Tonezza Plateau and made other gains; while the seventh army captured Col Santo, north of Pasubio, forced the Vallarsa, east of Lake Garda, and near the Swiss frontier broke the Austrian front on the Selle del Tonale, thereafter marching up the Vermiglio Valley. In the afternoon the Italians advanced on both sides of Lake Garda, and in the evening held Rovereto.
On November the 3rd the British belonging to the sixth army occupied Levico, south-east of Trent, the evacuation of which by the Austrians had begun on November the 1st, and the Italian cavalry entered unopposed in the afternoon of November the 3rd. Research Capture Of Trent
St Gothard is a mountain group in Switzerland, on the confines of the cantons Tessin and Uri, belonging to the Lepontine or Helvetian Alps, which it connects with the Bernese Alps. It forms a kind of central nucleus in the great watershed of Europe. Its culminating point has a height of 10,600 feet. The Col of St Gothard, at its summit level, is 6808 feet high. Over it an excellent carriage road was completed in 1832. In the 19th century a railway tunnel was pierced through this mountain group between Goschenen on the north and Airolo on the south, thus directly connecting the railway system of North Italy with those of Switzerland. Research St Gothard
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