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The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Special notice (search)
e to Europe. Mr. Laurens was less fortunate.--He had prepared his papers with lead in such a manner that he thought they would sink when thrown into the sea. Unfortunately they floated, and were picked up by the British. The discovery, through them, of a good understanding between Holland and the Colonies, led to a short war between Great Britain and the former power, the only incidents of any account in which were the obstinate, but indecisive sea-fight off the Dogger Bank, between Admiral Hyde Parker and the Dutch fleet, and the capture and plunder of the Dutch Island of St. Eustatia, by the British West India fleet under Admiral Rodney, and a land force under Gen. Vaughan. This latter enterprise had a most important bearing upon the issue of the war in America, and is one of many proofs afforded by history, that the greatest events are frequently dependent upon causes the most trivial. Rodney was a great gambler, and had retired to France to avoid his creditors previously to th
The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Zarvona Zouaves. (search)
Zarvona Zouaves. --My heart has been made gla--four little girls' contribution to the Zarvona Zouaves. Their names are Fannie W Parker Sue J. Taliaferro Sue B. Sutton, and Ida D. Evans. This offering has left a daguerreotype upon the tablet of memory, whose unsmelling and gliding to protect from rust and tarnish shall ever be the raciest dictates of the heart. Girls, I thank you earnestly. You shall hear of the Zou es doing their duty cheerfully. * G. Washington Alexander, Captain.