... distinguished service reward of £lOO a year, won perhaps his most pictnresquo fame when was youthful—a very youthful—subaltern the Crimea. He was in the van the attack and at the capture of the cemetery at Sebastopol, and his conduct eecnred for him an honour ...

... beautiful bay which is the only harbour on the south coast of the Crimea where, owing to the rocks rising suddenly from the sea, the largest ships can anchor close to the shore. The Crimea played considerable part in ancient history, and Balaclava, which ...

... THE WORLD'S V.CB. Viotoria Oam wm iartitoted at the cion at ...

... service was in the Kandy Rebellion. He exchanged into the Slst (Royal Scots Fueiliert) Regiment in 1851, and in 1855 went to the Crimea, where be was in command of the 13th Battalion of tbe Land Transport Corps, attached to tbe 3rd Division. He resigned this ...

... who celebrate this Tear the 75th anniversary of their birth, are Florence Nightingale and Jean Ingelow. The heroine of the Crimea is tall, grey-haired woman, with a fine, open face that has nnn-like serenity. ' She is inclined to bo stout, while Miss Ingelow ...

... extraordinary proportions, notably among the Tartar population, of whom I have seen numbers who took part in the exodus from the Crimea at the conclusion of the war in 1850. Every steamer to Constantinople carries away hundreds of persons, who are under the ...

... “British Grenadiers. Nest a hollow square was formed, and the present and former olHcers and large detachment of veterans of the Crimea and Indian Mutiny entered the square, where General Rowlands delivered short address. its close •* God Save the Queen was ...

... London anction room. Captain Stab was a Hungarian officer who served with Gordon in the Britsh Army during the campaign the Crimea. Gordon was greatly attached to him. In one of the letters, dated from Tientsin. 60 miles from Pekin, Christmas Day. 1860 ...

... Police-court accused of having attempted to commit suicide. He said he was old soldier who had served with the 12th Lancers the Crimea and the Indian Mutiny. The kind-henrted magistrate ordered him to be set free and gave him £1 from tbs poor box pending inquiries ...

... most brutal way, with lucent to rob him. At the trial accused the murdered mao’s stepdaughter of having incited him to the crime—a charge which was effectually disproved. When the judicial functionaries and the executioners entered bis cell and told him ...

... Sebaatopol, in the Crimea. The jxrt were confirmed by Crar, and liam, whan only 16 years old, became hia at. How well immenae military deeigned and executed under the auper» Uptona, the fierce aaaanlta and bloody the allied in the Crimea aftared. William ...

... signing of the treaty. Tne army loseeone of it its heroes by the death General Hugh Rowland*, who won the Victoria Cro*« in the Crimea rescuing Colonel The latter, when wounded, was surrounded by the enemy, and General Rowlands also gallantly held the ground ...