sea (including a hospital – the West Africa Squadron was notoriously prone to sickness).

In June 1829 a Lieutenant of the Royal Engineers, Henry Brandreth, arrived on Ascension with a remit to survey the facilities there and make recommendations for their improvement. He condemned what he found as, for the most part, 'miserable tenements ... inhabited by vermin'. Together with the local commandant, he recommended re-establishing the settlement a little way back from the sea on the elevated plateau which Georgetown occupies today. Having returned to England to oversee the supply and manufacture of certain items for the island, he returned in 1830 to begin work on this project. A key innovation was the construction of St George's Water Tank, which can still be seen today: water was channelledHillary Clinton expressed her support on Wednesday of an 11-year-old girl who kneeled during the Pledge of Allegiance, telling her to “keep up the good work.”

The two-time failed presidential candidate was responding to a video about Mariana Taylor, a sixth grade student at a Baltimore County, Maryland, middle school, which explained the girl was reprimanded by her teacher over her protest during the pledge.

“It is in my rights that I am allowed to kneel,” said Taylor, who modeled her demonstration after former NFL player Colin Kaepernick, who did the same during the National Anthem to protest racial injustice.

According to a Washington Post report about the girl, Taylor has “strong beliefs about racial injustice, sexism, gay rights and President Trump’s proposed wall at the Mexico border."

“I kind of wanted