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... his invincible Armada. From thence to our own days, when the same indomitable and fearless courage has been displayed in the Crimea, at the Alma, at Inkermann, and Balaclava ; in India at the storming of Lucknow, and the siege of Delhi; in all of which, ...

Published: Wednesday 01 February 1860
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 3271 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

OUR SEAMEN

... in one of the magnificent P. and 0. ships, the Valctta, the master of which subsequently did distinguished service in the Crimea. This was his first Mediterranean voyage, and he sailed his ships by the charts alone, going into each port as surely any ...

Published: Friday 01 June 1860
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1059 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE WRECKER'S DAUGHTER;

... stated, but the Russian Consul at Varna told me that the Emperor was determined to get rid of the Mahommedan population in the Crimea, and give their lands to the Cossacks of the Don ; on the other hand, the Tartars, and especially the Circassians, tell us ...

Published: Thursday 01 November 1860
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 5189 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

COALS. NEWTON COALS by the L> ad or Cwt. at William Graham's Coal Depot, Bondgate Without. MRS. WHITFIELD, 5, ..

... toned paper, and richly bound in magenta and gold, iil Is. The great Battles of the British Army, including the War in the Crimea, illustrated by Win. Harvey, 5s Atkinson's Sketches in Natural History, with observations on instinct, with numerous illustrations ...

Published: Friday 01 March 1861
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 988 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NEW BOOKS OK SALE AT H. H. BLAIR'S, 23, BONDGATE STREET, ALNWICK. Webster's Dictionary of English Language, ..

... toned paper, and richly bound in magenta and gold, ill Is. The great Battles of the British Army, including the War in the Crimea, illustrated by Wm. Harvey, ss. Athletic Sports and Recreations for Boys, illustrated, Is. 6d. Games of Skill and Conjuring ...

Published: Thursday 01 August 1861
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 945 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

TESTIMONIAL TO THE REV. J. S. WOOLLETT, IN BERBICE

... his zealous and unwearied exertions. When the state privation and suffering to which the British soldier was exposed in the Crimea, during the Russian war, raised such a burst of indignation and sorrow throughout the United Kingdom, Mr. Woollett volunteered ...

Published: Tuesday 01 October 1861
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 797 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Literature

... There follows a poem in nine cantos, Colin and Ida a tale of ~v e ar the scene of which is laid on tbe Tweed, and in the Crimea, during the War of 1854. have e , for ,)tations else many passages of merit might selected, but we must give our readers the ...

Published: Monday 02 June 1862
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 3174 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

An Irishman who had blistered his fingers by endeavouring to draw a pair of boots, exclaimed, believe I shall

... shall never get them on until I have worn them a day or two. An Heir of the Irish Peerage in .American Police Court for Crime.—A boy about 15 years of age, named Charles Beresford, was arrested and taken before an American police magistrate, charged ...

Published: Friday 01 August 1862
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 671 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Local Intelligence

... tot their SldiCTlv Vanng. Several of the officers and men wore Crimean medals—the last time they were action being 4o the Crimea, on the 23th October, IBst, on the same day when the Light Cavalry Brigade made their memorable chargi on the enemy's batteries ...

Published: Monday 01 June 1863
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 883 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

STARVING THE EARTH

... quantities of bones have been imported into Great Britain. To furnish this supply, the battle-fields of Leipsic, Waterloo, and the Crimea, have been raked up, and the catacombs of Sicily cleared of the bones of many generations. About 4,000,000 tons of phosphates ...

Published: Monday 01 June 1863
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1107 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

True Wisdom.—Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them, and the evils bear patiently and sweetly, for this

... disorderly people.' Our Fire-Arms, Past and Present.—Within the ten years that have elapsed since the outburst of the war in the Crimea, the improvements and discoveries in the construction of fire-arms and projectiles have exceeded, both in numberand importance ...

Published: Monday 01 August 1864
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 718 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Banquet to Col. McMurdo

... failing twenty years ago was impetuosity and a good fault too in a young soldier. Col. McMurdo's more recent services in the Crimea were of '■ the greatest importance. We all remember at the com- 1 mencement of the siege of Sebastopol how England had her ...

Published: Saturday 14 January 1865
Newspaper: Alnwick Mercury
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1968 | Page: 8 | Tags: none