Named for Augusta Saxe Gotha, mother of King George III (she was the one ... An account of one of the ships in Anson’s fleet, the H.M.S. Wager, which was shipwrecked off the coast of Chile ...

George Will writes a twice-weekly column on politics and domestic and foreign affairs. He began his column with The Post in 1974, and he received the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1977.

282 years ago — On Aug. 22, 1742, Lord George Anson visited Tinian and was fascinated by the “flying proas,” Chamorro canoes that “may run twenty miles an hour for they passed our ships li ...