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... discussing the Ilussian war over au afternoon cigar : That war, said Crackskoff, will prove the foundation of our greatnes-C • How so, I asked. To toll you the truth, he replied, you gave us a lesson. Previous to the Crimean war that is, to the year ...
... MITCHELL ON MARSHAL %MCMAHON. We can all remember the circumstances under which he first drew his sword iu this war; he was summoned hastily from Africa and desired to command a corps of 35,000 men on the frontier, arriving only on the very day before he was ...
... brilliant examination, and was made a second lieutenant the staff. In 1830 was promoted to be first lie:!tenant, and started for Africa, whet!, at the taking Algiers, he received the cross ot 'liom ’or his bravery. ...
... malieo, and not of political aignifiesnee. The Boyal Park* Bill, the Regulation of Mine* Bill, and the Scotch Education Bill war* brought in and read a firat time. THE AT.ataiVA n.anra. Mr. GOLD3MID caked if the American and Engliah caac would laid before ...
... the Licery)9l Otrier, writing from coast of Africa, recounts a foray marked by fearful atrocities, which was lately made by one native tribe upon another. The New Calabar men, to the number of 2,000, m5O war canoes, under their King Amachree fell upon ...
... intonation, which relieves the lan guage of as much of its harshness as doe* the Munster brogue. Having spent many years in India, Africa, and at the European courts, he speaks many languages. French German, Italian and English are at his tongue’s end. We had ...
... and now admimstermg t'n Govcrumcnt her Majesty’s West Africa set tleiueut, and Herbert Taylor Usslier, Esq., uduia.talor the Government her Majesty’ tettiemeut on the Gold Coast in Western Africa to Ordinary Member the Third Class, Companions of the Most ...
... steed tamers; Look on my face ! Woe ! woe !—I fall'n from my throne I, who rode the red ranks as I willed, Ever glorious in wars, Making crimson with blood that we spilled Of our foes lying prone, The great Altars of Mars. Oh, Achaians ! oh, mighty Atridm ...
... the system of government than to the man who had to carry it out. When France rushed blindly into the war of 1870, M'Mahon was recalled from Africa to assume important command. Henceforth to write his memoir would be merely recapitulating the disasters ...
... Continent, intercepting both informaion and sympathy. But it happens that England pretends t.) have mighty posses:ions in Asia, in Africa, in • America, in Australia. She cannot hold b,,th positions, bo:h that of a sequestered island surrounded by a silver strip ...
... whole carps of surgeons and hospital attendants, together with the finest ambulance appliances we have seen during the whole war, and the devotion and tho services of which have been above all praise. Besides, she expended several millions of francs in ...