While experimenting with the making of gunpowder and boring of guns this man invented a brasslike alloy known as his metal.
While experimenting with the making of gunpowder and boring of guns this man invented a brasslike alloy known as his metal. A founder and first governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, after the Restoration, he served as admiral of the English fleet and first lord of the admiralty. The earl of Holderness, in 1650 he had escaped to the West Indies after Blake destroyed his fleet at the mouth of the Tagus, after having gained his greatest fame in the English Civil War, winning at Lancaster and Bristol but losing at Marston Moor. FTP, who was this nephew of Charles I and son of Elector Palatine Frederick V best known as Count Palatine of the Rhine?
While experimenting with the making of gunpowder and boring of guns this man invented a brasslike alloy known as his metal.
Prince Rupert of the Rhine