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ROYAL HORSE GUARDS

... against the Covenanters. Subsequent to that they were engaged in suppressing the rebels in Scotland. In 1694 they embarked for Flanders, where they took part in all the operations until 1697, and remained in Scotland until 1702, when they embarked for Holland ...

THE OUTLOOK ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS

... time effectually disposed of the Russian proposal, accepted grudgingly by France and too hastily by the United States, to evacuate Pekin. The objections to such a course are indeed serious for Russia and overwhelming for all other Powers. For even the ...

Published: Saturday 29 September 1900
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1231 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

The CONTINUED FIGHTING in the DUNES: The BATTLES of the CANALS

... position in Flanders and Northern France may be summarised as follows: The enemy has fallen back towards the east. Our advanced guards have marched towards the Yser, and have everywhere found indications of a hurried retreat. The evacuation by the German ...

Published: Saturday 07 November 1914
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 922 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

THE CLUBMAN: GEORGE II AND GEORGE V: IN DESPATCHES: THE FIGHTING HALF-HUNDRED.; The King in the Field

... HUNDRED. The King in the Field. That his Majesty, the Head of the Army should have gone amongst his troops in France and Flanders is eminently in keeping with his character, as we know him, of a brave man devotedly attached to his sailors and his soldiers ...

Published: Wednesday 09 December 1914
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1108 | Page: 29 | Tags: Photographs 

THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN: The Evacuation of Lodz

... THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN The Evacuation of Lodz. THE story of the renewed advance of the German masses up the Vistula in the middle of November and of their rupture of the Russian line north of Lodz has been already sketched in the pages of THE SPHERE. The ...

Published: Saturday 19 December 1914
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1042 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

THE CLUBMAN: A MUNITION SCARE OF 1815: RUSSIANS AND RACES: THE INDIAN CADET; A Hundred Years Ago

... than the account of a Times correspondent of a visit to the front, to a spot which the gossips of Warsaw said was to be evacuated by the Russians, and of finding the Russian officers there preparing a course for a steeplechase. .J p If British officers ...

Published: Wednesday 09 June 1915
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1174 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

BYSTANDER WAR COMMENTS: THE SILLY SEASON 1915; From the Archives; Does It Portend Peace?

... man not so very dis tantly related to the former observers of the big gooseberry and the sea-serpent. Stagnation The War in Flanders, so far as it is officially supposed to interest the British public, may be said lately to have been somnolent. Continuous ...

Published: Wednesday 07 July 1915
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1980 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

IN WIPERS: A Personal Narrative of a Visit to the Ruined City

... buildings that had been a great lunatic asylum. It is now a hospital for civilians, although it is partly destroyed. During the evacuation of the town, said the commandant, it was decided that the lunatics must be taken out. The asylum had been hit once and ...

Published: Saturday 10 July 1915
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3397 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

Woman's Sphere in War Time

... many women doctors have rendered signal service to the troops at the front, and have established hospitals in France and Flanders on their own initiative^ that have been of the greatest use. Medicine will be well worth the con sideration of any intelligent ...

Published: Saturday 02 October 1915
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1895 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

A HOSPITAL PRESENTED TO THE FRENCH ARMY

... THE DONOR, MRS. BORDEN-TURNER R THE day of the anniversary of the opening of our hospital the sun that shines so rarely in Flanders came out and flooded our field with light. The nasturtiums flamed up the walls of the huts, and the tubs of geraniums along ...

Published: Saturday 19 August 1916
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 796 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

A HOSPITAL PRESENTED TO THE FRENCH ARMY

... THE DONOR, MRS. BORDEN-TURNER R THE day of the anniversary of the opening of our hospital the sun that shines so rarely in Flanders came out and flooded our field with light. The nasturtiums flamed up the walls of the huts, and the tubs of geraniums along ...

Published: Saturday 19 August 1916
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 796 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs