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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Urdaneta, Adres 1499- (search)
Urdaneta, Adres 1499- Navigator; born in Villafranca, Guipuzcoa, Spain, in 1499. Urged by the council of the Indies, Philip II. decided, in 1558, to undertake the conquest of the Philippine Islands, and appointed Urdaneta chief pilot of the expedition, which left Acapulco Nov. 21, 1564, under Miguel Lopez de Legaspi. The latter took possession of the island of Cebu and conquered Mindoro. Urdaneta returned to Mexico, where he died June 3, 1568. He wrote several memoirs and letters which are preserved in the archives of the Indies in Seville.
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
ving's Life of Washington very poor,— entirely unworthy of the subject and of the author. The Life of John Adams he recognizes as a very different work, and of positive merit. I hear of Seward's visit, but have not yet seen him. Since I have been in London he has been in the Provinces, where he went partly to escape the 4th of July dinner. Is he to be our candidate? To Theodore Parker, August 4:— Meanwhile, what sudden changes in the attitude of European States! The peace of Villafranca is as treacherous and clever as its author, for I feel disposed at least to concede to him cleverness. But as time passes it promises to be more and more advantageous to Italy. Several things seem accomplished,—（1) Lonmbardy rescued from Austria; (2) The duchies (Parma, Modena, and Tuscany) all taken from their old governments, and probably from the influence of Austria; (3) The idea of Italian unity and independence recognized by Europe; (1) A movement in Italy which I think will ripe
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1864. (search)
looking back, dashed into the fight. His troop, fired by the example, rallied, dispersed the Confederates, and carried him, severely wounded, with the General, from the field. Captain Mann was killed in a subsequent battle. In the spring of 1859, a wrestling-match with his young friend Mann brought on bleeding at the lungs, which obliged Fitzhugh to abandon his purpose of entering college that year. The following July he sailed for Europe, arriving there shortly after the peace of Villafranca. The Continent was in a ferment; and he was sufficiently well informed to take an excited interest in the questions of the time. From a balcony on the Boulevard, looking down the Rue de la Paix, he saw the triumphal entry into Paris of the Emperor and the army of Italy. I suppose war is a great evil, he said, but it is so splendid that I am half sorry we can never have one at home. A week later he was in Chamouni in Savoy. On the Mer de Glace, his party came to a place where two la
The Daily Dispatch: June 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], Death of count Cavour--sketch of his life and public career. (search)
of the French arms in the struggle of united Italy; while his policy of caution in the matter of Rome and Venice may have been the reflex of the Napoleonic mind, no less than his strong natural proclivity to the use of diplomatic means. Cavour's part in the last Italian struggle is too fresh in every mind to need re-writing.--His record is especially memorable in a single point — he did not hesitate to dissent from that ex parte settlement of a great question involved in the peace of Villafranca. Napoleon was the friend of Cavour, but Cavour indignantly resigned the day after the treaty was signed. He dies at a strange time. Italy needed him more than ever before — unless, perhaps, it be within the plans of Providence that the vast results expressed in Italian unity are to be attained by the rude sword of the soldier rather than the subtle pen of the diplomatist. If this be so, he died opportunely. But be this as it may, his country mourns the noblest statesman she has k
The Daily Dispatch: September 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], The London times on the war. (search)
ph, or rified cannon. Do the Northern States really belong to the New World, or are they only a bit of the Old World, with all its pride, its bigotry, and its tyranny, stranded on the Western shore of the Atlantic? The advice we give them is what they have taught us before, and we only say to them, as many a son may say to his father, "Practice what you teach." Let the Northern States "accept the situation," as we did eighty years ago up on their ownsoll; as Austria did two years ago at Villafranca and Zurich. Let them count the cost before they march forth to drive half a million armed men a thousand miles acrose their own country into the Gulf of Mexico. Let them consider whether they can do what Napoleon could not do in the plentitude of his power, with many times their number, their stores, their credit, and, above all, their military skill and experience, his school of Generals, and his supply of veterans. What they purpose to do and be, is not only to be as good as th
The Daily Dispatch: October 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], Destructive fire in Memphis. (search)
ph, or rifled cannon. Do the Northern States really belong to the New World, or are they only a bit of the Old World, with all its pride, its bigotry, and its tyranny, stranded on the Western shore of the Atlantic? The advice we give them is what they have taught us before, and we only say to them, as many a son may say to his father, "Practice what you teach." Let the Northern States "accept the situation," as we did eighty years ago upon their own soil; as Austria did two years ago at Villafranca and Zurich. Let them count the cost before they march forth to drive half a million armed men a thousand miles across their own country into the Gulf of Mexico. Let them consider whether they can do what Napoleon could not do in the plentitude of his power, with many times their number, their stores, their credit, and, above all, their military skill and experience, his school of Generals, and his supply of veterans. What they purpose to do and be, is not only to be as good as the Sou