General Sir Anthony Blaxland Stransham, GCB, (d. October 1900, aged 95) led the Royal Marines during the First Opium War, winning the war and Hong Kong for the British Empire, when a young captain. General is a high military rank, used by nearly every country in the world. ... Military Badge of the Order of the Bath The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. ... Look up October in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday. ... Her Majestys Royal Marines, usually just known as the Royal Marines (RM) or sometimes colloquially as the Green Berets[1], is the United Kingdoms amphibious force and a core component of the countrys Rapid Deployment Force. ... The First Opium War was fought between Great Britain and the Qing Empire in China from 1839 to 1842. ... The British Empire was, at one time, the foremost global power, and the most extensive empire in the history of the world. ...

Later in his career, as a General and the Grand Old Man of the Army, Queen Victoria twice knighted the General, Knight Commander and Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Bath. Stransham was the son of Lt. Col. Anthony Stransham of the Royal Marines and grandson of Major Samuel Stransham of the Royal Marines, who planted the British flag on the Falkland Islands, claiming that island for King George III. The phrase Grand Old Man of the Army in the United Kingdom refers to General Sir Anthony Blaxland Stransham, GCB, of the Royal Marines, who served the United Kingdom in a series of colonial wars in the 19th century. ... Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria) (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and Empress of India from 1 January 1877, until her death. ... Military Badge of the Order of the Bath The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. ... Samuel Stransham, a Royal Marines officer, planted the Union Jack on the Falkland Islands, claiming the islands for King George III. See also: Gen. ... George III (George William Frederick) (4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain, and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until 1 January 1801, and thereafter King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death. ...

See also:

• The Stransham family; Stransham
• The 'fighting Wilberforces' are one branch of descendants of the Stransham family.
• Streynsham Master, the royal Governor in India before Elihu Yale, was a distant kinsman.
• An Edward Stransham from Kent, who professed the Catholic faith, was blessed and named a martyr in the Catholic pantheon of saints.