EAST LANCASHIRE REGIMENT 



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EASTMAN 



East Lancashire Regiment. 



Formerly the 30th and 59th Foot 

 and one of several regiments raised 

 in 1702 for ser- 

 vice as marines 

 on board ship. 

 They took part 

 in the capture 

 ? of Gibraltar in 

 1704 and in the 

 subsequent na- 

 val action off 

 East Lancashire Malaga. In 1727 

 Regiment badge _28 they helped 

 to defend Gibraltar, and in 1806 

 were in Sir David Baird's force 

 which seized the Cape of Good 

 Hope. In the Peninsular War the 

 East Lancashires fought at Co- 

 runna, Badajoz, Salamanca, and 

 Vittoria ; they were at Waterloo 

 and took part in the Mahratta War 

 (1817-19). In 1825 the regiment 

 distinguished itself at the capture 

 of Bhurtpore, as it did later at 

 Inkerman ; it shared in the storm- 

 ing of Canton (1857), the second 

 Afghan War, and the Chitral ex- 

 pedition. It did excellent service 

 in the South African War. 



During the Great War the 1st 

 battalion beat back a strong Ger- 

 man attack in the first battle of 

 Ypres, 1914, and the 2nd partici- 

 pated in the British attack on the 

 Aubers Ridge, 1915. The llth dis- 

 tinguished itself at the battle of 

 the Somme, 1916, and men of the 

 East Lancashires took part in the 

 third battle of Ypres, 1917. Two 

 battalions formed part of the East 

 Lancashire Territorials mobilised 

 in Aug., 1914, as the 42nd division. 

 The latter fought in Gallipoli and 

 in the early stages of the Sinai 

 desert campaign, and proceeded 

 to France in March, 1917. The 

 regimental depot is at Preston. 



Eastleigh. Urb. dist. (East- 

 leigh and Bishopstoke) of Hamp- 

 shire, England. It is 5J m. N.E. of 

 Southampton on the L. & S.W.R., 

 which has works here for the 

 manufacture of rolling stock. A 

 great aerodrome situated between 

 Eastleigh and Swaythling on the 

 main L. & S.W.R. was begun some 

 time before the armistice, Nov., 

 1918, but was never used by the 

 R.A.F. It was taken over by the 

 American naval air service, but it 

 was never put to any real use as a 

 flying station. The civil aviation 

 department controlled it for a 

 time, but it was later allowed to 

 remain derelict. Pop. 15,247. 



East Liverpool. City of Ohio, 

 U.S.A., in Columbiana co. It 

 stands on the Ohio river, 44 m. 

 W.N.W. of Pittsburg by the Penn- 

 sylvania Rly. The staple industry 

 is porcelain manufacture, the city 

 being the chief pottery centre of 

 the country. Yellow ware was first 



made here in 1839, white ware 

 being introduced in 1872. Bricks, 

 steel, and machinery are also 

 manufactured. Settled in 1796, 

 East Liverpool was incorporated 

 in 1834. Pop. 22,940. 



East London. City and seaport 

 of Cape Province, S. Africa. It 

 stands at the mouth of the Buffalo 

 river, mainly on the E. side, 887 

 m. by rly. from Cape Town. It has a 

 spacious harbour, and by dredging 



East Lynne. i Novel by Mrs. 

 Henry Wood (q.v.), published in 

 1861. It achieved an enormous 

 contemporary success, was trans- 

 lated into all European and some 

 Oriental languages, and is still very 

 widely read, while several dramatic 

 versions have enjoyed almost equal 

 popularity. The chief interest of 

 the book an interest which is in- 

 tensified in the plays founded upon 

 it lies in the situation which 



East London. Plan of the S. African seaport and watering-place, at the mouth 

 i of the Buffalo river 



operations the great obstacle to 

 its development, the bar at the river 

 mouth, has been in large part over- 

 come. There are ample wharves 

 and other shipping accommoda- 

 tion. The city is a rly. terminus. 

 Apart from the shipping the 

 chief industries are connected with 

 the trade of a large district. It has 

 also some fishing. The chief build- 

 ings are the city hall and the public 



develops when the erring Lady 

 Isabel returns to her home and 

 children disguised as a nurse. 

 East Lynne has little literary 

 merit, but the plot is well con- 

 structed and the reader's interest 

 continuously sustained. 



Eastman, GEORGE (b.'~ 1854). 

 American inventor. He was born 

 at Waterville, N.Y., July 12, 1854, 

 and educated at 'Rochester, N.Y. 



offices. The city is lit by electricity He experimented .in the making of 



and has a service of electric tram- dry plates, and in 1880 began to 



ways. It is also a watering-place, manufacture them; four years later 



with good facilities for sea- bathing, he produced the first efficient 



and there is ample accommodation roll-film, and in 1888 perfected his 



for visitors, including a space pre- first Kodak camera. Two years 



pared for tents. Pop. 20,867. later he patented the first machine 



East London, South Africa. View of the town and the Buffalo river 



