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Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography, Chapter 16: (search)
otwithstanding the fact that Vesuvius was covered with snow and everything looked wintry enough, the spectacle was grand, the sapphire blue of this enchanting bay being always the same. We spent several days in Naples enjoying every moment of our stay. I left my party to make a flying trip to Rome to criticise the sculptor Simmons's work on General Logan's statue for the city of Washington and found everything very satisfactory. Shortly afterward we embarked on the Hesperides for Alexandria, Egypt. There were on board a number of agreeable passengers, some of them distinguished people, among them Colonel Logan, of the English Artillery, and Sir Frederick Harrison, the writer. On the morning after our arrival in Alexandria, which might be called the City of Obelisks, we started out to see the sights. The Pharos (one of the wonders of the world) has passed away, but on the ruins a modern lighthouse has been erected, which is one of the first objects in view near this ancien
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
s, Thomas W. Boswell, and James Thomas, Jr., of Virginia......May 13, 1867 Congress reassembles......July 3, 1867 Supplementary reconstruction bill, reported July 8, vetoed and passed over the veto......July 19, 1867 Congress adjourns to Nov. 21, after a session of eighteen days......July 20, 1867 Catharine Maria Sedgwick, authoress, born in 1789, dies near Roxbury, Mass.......July 31, 1867 John H. Surratt, implicated in assassination of President Lincoln, is arrested in Alexandria, Egypt, and placed on the American vessel Swatara, Dec. 21, 1866; his trial begins June 10, 1867, in the criminal court for the District of Columbia; the jury, disagreeing, are dismissed......Aug. 10, 1867 E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War, refusing to resign at the request of the President, Aug. 5, is suspended, and General Grant appointed Secretary pro tem., Stanton submitting under protest......Aug. 12, 1867 Sheridan relieved of command in 5th Military District, and General Hancock ap
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
of health authorized by law......May 18, 1880 Commission for the protection of game and fish established by law......June 26, 1880 New York and Connecticut joint boundary commission award to New York a small strip 4.68 square miles in area, called the oblong tract ......1880 Population of the State, 5,082,871......1880 New York agricultural experiment station instituted by law......June 26, 1880 Egyptian obelisk erected in Central Park......Jan. 22, 1881 [Brought from Alexandria, Egypt, to New York by the steamer Dessoug, commander Henry H. Gorringe, U. S. N., which sailed from Alexandria, June 12, reaching New York, July 20, 1880. Total height, 90 feet; height of shaft, 69 feet; weight of shaft in pounds, 443,000. Total expense of removal and erection, $103,732, paid by William H. Vanderbilt. This obelisk is supposed to have been made 1591-1565 B. C. at Heliopolis; removed to Alexandria 22 B. C.] Alfred B. Street, poet, born at Poughkeepsie, 1811, dies at Al
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
t, above Bombay, 220 inches frequently fall in four months. The greatest known rainfall in the world occurs in some parts of India. At Mahubalechoar, on the western slope of the Ghauts, 4,461 feet above the sea, the average yearly fall during a period of forty years was 275 inches. At Cherrapoonje, at the same elevation, on the Garrow Mountains to the south of the valley of the Brahmaputra, the annual rainfall is 550 inches, which is about equal to the rainfall of a century at Alexandria, Egypt. This was even exceeded in the experience of the naturalist Hooker, who observed in some of the valleys of the Himalaya a fall of 470 inches in seven months, and 30 inches on one occasion in four hours, equal to the average annual rainfall in France. This was at Khasia, where, according to Mr. Yule, in the month of August, 1841, there fell 264 inches, or 22 feet; 30 inches falling daily during five successive days. This is attributable to the abruptness of the mountains which face t
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
1856Prince Edward Island to New Brunswick1214 1856*Crete to Alexandria, Egypt3501,350 1856Crete to Syra1701,020 1856St. Petersburg to Cro 1858*Turkey to Smyrna via Archipelago5651,100 1859*Crete to Alexandria, Egypt1501,600 1859*Singapore to Batavia63020 1859Denmark to Heligi, Africa, to Bengazi, Africa508420 1861*Bengazi, Africa, to Alexandria, Egypt59380 1861Dieppe, France, to Newhaven, England8025 1861*Toulouth Foreland, England, to La Panne, France4728 1867Malta to Alexandria, Egypt9252,000 1867Havana to Key West, Florida12520 1867Key West to Singapore40036 1870Singapore to Batavia55722 1870Malta to Alexandria, Egypt9041,440 1870Batabano, Cuba, to Santiago, Cuba520 1870Jerseyo Sweden12 1873Pernambuco, Brazil, to Para, Brazil1,080 1873Alexandria, Egypt, to Crete390 1873Candia to Zante240 1873Zante to Otranto, Italy190 1873Alexandria, Egypt, to Brindisi, Italy930 1874Lisbon to Madeira633 1874Madeira to St. Vincent, Cape de Verd Islands1,260 1874S
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
a and the Fifty-fourth and Sixty-third Virginia, which he commanded in the battle of Missionary Ridge. Subsequently his brigade was attached to Stevenson's division, Hardee's corps, with which he was actively engaged in the Atlanta campaign, until painfully wounded at New Hope church. Upon the close of hostilities he went to Egypt, and in 1866 was appointed a brigadier-general in the army of the khedive. After serving in the Abyssinian war he resided for a time at Cairo, and died at Alexandria, Egypt, May 26, 1876 Brigadier-General Beverly Holcombe Robertson Brigadier-General Beverly Holcombe Robertson, a native of Virginia, was graduated at the United States military academy in 1849, and promoted to brevet second lieutenant of the Second dragoons. After a year at the cavalry school at Carlisle, Pa., he was promoted second lieutenant, and ordered to the West. He served in New Mexico, Kansas and Nebraska, participating in battle with the Apache Indians at Jornado del Muerto,
The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1865., [Electronic resource], Sunday school Celebration. (search)
tion to every new phase in religious development is natural. Socrates taught the Athenians (who believed in polytheism) the simple "idea" of a Supreme Being; they put him to death. Jesus taught the Jews (great believers in Moses and the Prophets) the "idea" of higher revelations from God; they put him to death. The people of Ethiopia cut St. Matthew into pieces with a sword because he advocated the Nazarene. Mark, the next named in the Testament, was dragged through the streets of Alexandria, in Egypt, and subsequently died in great agony. Luke, because he would teach the "blasphemies" of Jesus, was hung on an olive tree in Greece. The beloved John, for his religious heresy, died at Ephesus only after he had escaped from a cauldron of boiling oil. James the Great was beheaded at Jerusalem, while the lesser James was thrown headlong from a pinnacle of the temple. Philip was hanged by the neck in the streets of Hierpolis. Bartholomew was flayed alive; Andrew was bound to a cross