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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: January 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
own across the Rhine by Julius Cæsar, and described in his commentaries, over which description many a schoolboy has puzzled his brain in futile efforts to comprehend. Timber is undoubtedly the most ancient and most ready material, but less durable. Probably the best specimen of a wooden bridge now existing is that over the Rhine, at the fall of Schaff haveen. The best collection of bridges is across the Thames at London, for Black friars, Westminster, Waterloo, London, and Southwark or Trafalgar, are all splendid examples of different classes. The construction of metal bridges is particularly owing to the skill of British architects. They are found to be durable, safe, and less expensive than others,--the only objection laying in the expansion and contraction of the material by being exposed to different extremes of temperature. Modern skill has, however, overcome this difficulty, and now they are looked upon as the best and most desirable bridges in use. This science, whic
The Daily Dispatch: October 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Gen. Bragg's army. (search)
begin to build up another." This is a very great mistake, and if pushed home by our authorities it might prove a very serious one. From the day of the battle of Trafalgar, Bonaparte began to build ships-of-the-line, and at the time of his fall he had already completed a large number. They had not taken the sea, only because he foade arrangements to exercise them in the best manner he could in the harbors, since they could not venture to sea. He reigned only nine years after the battle of Trafalgar, and the long time it took at that period to build a ship of-the-line, and the long time it took to form seamen for the old service, prevented him from perfectinrnal, in that part which relates to the harbor of Cherbourg, will see with what prodigious energy Napoleon pushed his naval preparations long after the battle of Trafalgar had destroyed the French marine. The Spartans never thought of destroying the ships of their allies in the Peloponnesian war because the Athenian were the stron
The Daily Dispatch: October 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], The steam ram question. (search)
wise maxim of the law "that things not appearing are presumed not to exist." The learned editor informs us that "Bonaparte reigned nine years after the battle of Trafalgar," and as no French navy was heard of in that time, it is fair to presume none existed. Indeed, the editor tells us "Napoleon was prevented from perfecting and using his navy for the want of ships and sailors." We did not assert that he built no shipsat Cherbourg after the battle of Trafalgar, but only that he did not attempt to improvise a navy--to build one all of a sudden in time of war, sufficient to cope with that of England We think the curious research of the learned editor fully esEurope at his command, in nine years. Let us no longer imitate the "prodigious energy with which Napoleon pushed his naval preparations long after the battle of Trafalgar had destroyed the French marine," (as the editor informs us,) for already our "prodigious energies" in the same line have brought about nothing but disaster.
The Daily Dispatch: March 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], Love Undiminished by Amputation. (search)
Love Undiminished by Amputation. --The following is an old story, but has the merit of being true as well as apropos to the times: Commodore Barelay, who fought the battle of Lake Erie against Perry, was engaged to be married to a fine English girl. At Trafalgar, with Nelson, he had lost an arm. At Lake Erie he lost a leg. On returning to England, feeling his condition very acutely, he sent a friend to his betrothed to tell her that, under the circumstances in which he found himself, he considered her released from all engagements to him. The lady heard the message, then said to the friend: "Edward thinks I may wish our engagement to be broken because of his misfortunes, does he? Tell him that if he only brings back to England body enough to hold the soul he carried away with him, I'll marry him."
The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
e, has had a military significance with the hero of Solferino ever since his flight from that world-renowned field. He can think of nothing else, dream of nothing else, write of nothing else but matters military. Alas! for his readers; for every morning he "Rends with tremendous sound their ears asunder, with gun, drum trumpet, blunderbus, and thunder." A parrot, which talked very plainly, was a great favorite with the sailors on board of one of the English ships that fought at Trafalgar. The day after the battle "Poor Pell" was among the missing, and there was great lamentation among the crew. They thought he had been knocked overboard in the action and drowned. It was not so, however. On the third day after the battle he was seen peeping cautiously above the deck, having crawled out of the hiding place in which he had ensconced himself while the battle was going on. He was hailed with shouts of joy by his old friends, but to their sorrow they soon found that he had e
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