... in Babruary, 1848. As a member of the Chamber of Deputies, during the stormy period which succeeded Charles Albert's declaration of war against Austria in March, Count Cavour strenuously opposed the ultra-Demoorats, and counselled an allance with England ...

... the Austro-Prussian war came in 1886 e he allied himself with Austria; but his troops were defeated at Tauberbischofsheim, and at -the, con-: 1 clusion-of' the brief struggle 'he signed a treaty of c peaco with Prussia,, and paid a war ind'emnity ofb eight ...

... Lyons, October 14. Subs~equently he was ti 3appointed Commander-in-Chief of th3 Army of Paris. h. At lthe time of the declaration at' war by France against te Prussia, in 1870, he had the command of an army corps. n. On the 6th of August the Crown Prince ...

... captured vessel, it will probably have to send a man-of-war into the harbour and take her out by force. At the time, of the cap- ture of the Lloyd Aspinwall, the United States were much nearer a war with Spain than anybody supposed, simply because the Spaniards ...

... pronounced against a general strike, which they declared to be a Utopian idea, which could have no effect beyond that of duping the working man. Moreover, not a single speaker throughout the discussion declared in favour of it-a fact which was pointed out ...

... than s an assemblage of brave uniformed men. In the war between China and Japan they never made a mis- take from the declaration of war until the signature of peace. They had been rehearsing that war for twenty years, and nothing was left to -chance. They ...