... armed and eipped for war, carrying a crew of 32 men, and disp laying the French ilsg, might have been peen putting out from Longo, on the western coast of Africa. and creeping along shore towards Cabenda. A small fleet of French men-of-war was awaiting her ...

... for War whether his attention had been called to the fact that the German War Departareat recent), seat to this country over IWO wrier pigeons for the purpose ofpractising them in flights from this country to elermaay for service of the German War Department: ...

... opened up a way for his servants in this vas: empire, which contains a population equal in numbers to the people of Europe, Africa, and America. lie would leave details respecting China for the deputation to enlarge upon, be having recently returned from ...

... given from his own experience. Daring the American Civil War he paid • visit to the Confederate Army in Virginia, and made the acquaintance of its gallant commander, General Robert E. Lee. When the war broke out General Lee was fifty•four years of age—some ...

... provinces, and presented Britain before the world in the pitiable and humiliating plight of waging war in India through fear of Russian diplomacy, and in Africa through fear of a tribe of badly armed undisciplined savages. If it was a compliment to loan B ...

... Me-en newril god lA. Oorkspur Street. Marin, Cr Canada. Li Int,. Auto. 14 y Atottra.a 414 He.. X , w Zealsad, ant and South Africa, LIN Bah. providing teed. Llr I,XCHANGE & INVESTMENT BANK, B. WAKILIDENSTEIN & CO., sad TURICADNBCDLI 10, haat of England ...

... coatent with 27,1100, In lion of 30 600 at which number they were set doing last year, although practically during the Zulu war the figure rose to nearly 40,000 men. Aooreding to present arrangement Cape Colony will have a coat. plangent of British troops ...

... human race, there never has been so much war, and preparation for war, as at present. A mere catalogue of the countries and state of the world on this subject is worth dwelling on. The nations internally at war comprise the United States, Mexico, Poland ...

... steady increase of late years in army expenditure. He traced the progress of our expenditure from the great French revolutionary war up to that of the Crimea, and the successive developments of our military forces, which had been the result. The consequence ...

... the advanced age of 89 years. He was born on the 9th of April, 1775, a few days only before the first blood was shed in the War of American Independence on an attempt by some British soldiers to disperse a body of Americans exercising on Lexington-green ...

... in large numbers in certain parts of Africa, the elephant is, however, rapidly disappearing. As a beset of burden he unrivalled for strength, endurance, and intelligence and the services be renders in times of war, as well as would alone more than reward ...

... London, during bet each t•eleds a Clem, baboon front South Africa, presented by Mks Robertson ; a Rhesus monkey from India, presented by Ur. Hamilton Kerr; • liebrouck monkey from Wert Africa, prowled by fir. H. Aylesbury, steam yacht ; • common ocelot ...