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The Essex flag is the flag of the English county of Essex. The flag of Essex is ancient in origin and features three notched Saxon seaxes (cutlasses) on a red field. The earliest references to the flag being used to represent the county date back to the 17th century. A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence, written in 1605 by Richard Verstegan ...
The Essex Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1958. The regiment served in many conflicts such as the Second Boer War and both World War I and World War II, serving with distinction in all three. It was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 44th (East Essex) Regiment ...
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Essex ( / ˈɛsɪks / ESS-iks) is a ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties. It is bordered by Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Kent across the Thames Estuary to the south, Greater London to the south-west, and Hertfordshire to the west. The largest settlement is Southend-on-Sea ...
English: Essex Bridge, Dublin (built 1753-55) by George Semple replacing an earlier Essex Bridge. Later demolished or substantially altered to make way for Grattan Bridge. Source: The history and antiquities of the City of Dublin, from the earliest accounts by Harris, Walter, 1686-1761
The name Essex derives from the Kingdom of the East Seaxe or Kingdom of Essex which was traditionally founded by Aescwine in AD 527, occupying territory to the north of the River Thames and east of the River Lea . In AD 825 it became part of the Kingdom of Wessex and was later ceded under the Treaty of Wedmore to the Danelaw under the Kingdom ...
English: A map of Anglo-Saxon Essex and Middlesex, made using File:River Thames and surroudings 2-fr.svg and David Hill, An Atlas of Anglo-Saxon England (1981). This SVG file contains embedded text that can be translated into your language, using any capable SVG editor, text editor or the SVG Translate tool .