... it is only fair to observe, is strenuously denied by other correspondents, it is an appalling epoch, nearly as bad as Independence Day in the United States, caning which quiet people burrow in their cellars to avoid the contents of the squibs, crackers ...

... Anspach, I heard the sound of trumpets in the distance. Presently I saw what was called the procession of the veterans of Independence day. There are only sixty survivors of the combatants in Brussels who feught against the troops of the Dutch Government in ...