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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 29, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 2 0 Browse Search
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them. 2 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1865., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
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n and decision, of moral firmness and warlike genius; the greatest military deed, thus far, of the century. That victory confirmed existence to the country where Kant and Lessing were carrying free inquiry to the sources of human knowledge. The soldiers knew how the rescue of their nation hung on that battle; and, as a grenadier on the field of carnage began to sing, Thanks be to God, the whole army, in the darkness of evening, standing amidst thousands of the dead, uplifted the hymn of praise. Daun fled into Bohemia, leaving in Breslau a garrison of twenty thousand men. Frederic pressed forward, and astonished Europe by gaining possession of that city, reducing Schweidnitz, and recovering all Silesia. The Russian army, which, under Apraxin, had won a victory on the northeast, was arrested in its movements by intrigues at home. Prussia was saved. In this terrible campaign, two hundred and sixty thousand men had stood against seven hundred thousand, and had not been conquered.
e, but the king of England is the most obstinate prince alive, and his ministers will never adopt the policy necessary in a great crisis, for fear of compromising their safety or their places. The affairs of the United Colonies were at that time under discussion in the heart of the Russian empire, the ancient city of Moscow, at the court of Catharine the Second. The ruling opinion in Russia demanded the concentration of all power in one hand. From the moment the empress set her foot on Russian soil, it became her fixed purpose to seize the absolute sway and govern alone. Though she mixed trifling pastime with application to business, and for her recreation sought the company of the young and the very gay, she far excelled those around her in industry and knowledge. Frederic said of her, that she had an infinity of talent and no religion; yet she went over to the Greek church and played the devotee. Distinguished for vivacity of thought and judgment, for the most laborious atte
so overweeningly confident, that they hoped to get the definitive promise by the twenty third of October, in season to announce it at the opening of parliament; and early in September Lord Dartmouth and his secretary hurried off messages to Howe and to Carleton, that the empress had given the most ample assurances of letting them have any number of infantry that might be wanted. On the eighth, Suffolk despatched a second courier to Gunning, with a project of a treaty for taking a body of Russian troops into the pay and service of Great Britain. The treaty was to continue for two years, within which the king and his ministers were confident of crushing the insurrection. The levy money for the troops might be seven pounds sterling a man, payable one half in cash and the other half on embarkation. A subsidy was not to be refused. I will not conceal from you, wrote Suffolk to Gunning, Chap. L.} 1775. Sept. that this accession of force being very earnestly desired, expense is not
he restraints on commerce were mischievous and vexatious, prompted by fear, and provoking murmurs and frauds. Moreover, all the world was becoming impatient that so large a portion of the globe should be monopolized by an incapable and decrepit dynasty. The Dutch and the British and the French sought opportunities of illicit trade. The British cut down foresttrees, useful in the workshop and the dye-house, and carried them off as unappropriated products of nature. Chap. I.} 1778. The Russian flag waved on the American shore of the North Pacific. To all these dangers from abroad, Charles the Third had added another, by making war on the so-called company of Jesus. Of the prelates of Spain, seven archbishops and twenty-eight bishops, two-thirds of them all, not only approved the exile of the order from his dominions, but recommended its total dissolution; while only one bishop desired to preserve it without reform. With their concurrence, and the support of France and Portug
A Populous country. The total population of Russia is seventy-nine millions, of which twenty-one millions are slaves. The Russian population is more than double that of France. Notwithstanding its vast numbers, it is united and loyal.--Russia is daily advancing in civilization and all the elements of power.
A dark page from Russian History. Few readers of Russian history will fail to remember the name of Count Alexey Orloff, one of the most prominent actors in the murder of Peter III, of Russia. But treacherous as was that deed, it loses half its blackness when compared with another committed by him at the instigation of Catharine II., widow and successor to the murdered monarch. Catharine, not being a native Russian princess, was most desirous of removing from her path all who might be supposed likely to disturb the security of her government; and in order to effect her purpose, in one instance, she and her associate Orloff exercised a degree of fiendish ingenuity almost unparalleled in history. The unfortunate girl who excited the jealousy of Catharine was a Russian princess, and grand-daughter to Peter the Great. Elizabeth II., his daughter, contracted a private marriage with Count Alexey Razumoffsky, and three children, two sons and a daughter, were the issue of this un
Arrival of the Etna.withdrawal of the French fleet from Gaeta. New York, Jan. 28. --The steamship Etna, from Liverpool on the 16th inst., is off Sandy Hook. The Paris Moniteur says the French fleet is withdrawn from Gaeta. The Russian government protests against the reported warlike preparations in Germany and Prussia against Denmark. Count Montemolin and his wife are dead. It is reported that there will be a Congress at Paris to settle the Italian question. It is announced that the Bank of France contemplates suspension of specie payment. The Queen's Bench had issued a habeas corpus in the cause of Anderson, the Kentucky fugitive slave at Toronto, Canada. The ships Grace Gordon and Marmion, from Liverpool, had been abandoned at sea. The crews were saved. [Second Dispatch.] The habeas corpus in the Anderson case is issued by Chief Justice Cockburn. He regards Anderson as a British subject. It is stated that several rifle
The Russian campaign of 1812. We feel the less scruple in pursuing this subject, from the existence of a very strong war spirit in the country just at this time, which will induce many to read of war who would at any other time turn from it as a bore. We endeavored to show in our last, that the campaign of Russia was not an extravagant undertaking — that it was not conducted on the principle of transporting everything a distance of six hundred miles--that it simply involved the question of the march of 160,000 men three hundred miles to attack the enemy's capital — that this was not an unusual distance for an invading army to march from its basis of operation — that from its front, at Smolensko, to its rear at Mentz on the Rhine, (that is, all the way from France,) the French army of invasion had entire and peaceable possession of the whole country. We will now show that the most renowned Captains that have lived, made, each, at least one or more expeditions more extravagant t<
Reported for the Richmond Dispatch.four days Later from Europe.arrival of the Canada. Halifax, March 23 --The steamship Canada, from Liverpool on 9th inst., via Queens town 10th, arrived at this port this morning. She brings £177,000 in specie. All is quiet at Warsaw. It is stated that the number of persons killed by the troops there was 53. The Banks of Poland refusing to make specie payments on Russian bonds, the military took possession of the amount required. Prince Napoleon was about to proceed to Turin, to negotiate for the withdrawal of the French troops from Rome. The blockade of the citadel of Messina is officially proclaimed, and hostilities have commenced. Ratazzi has been elected President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. The French Senate has finally adopted an address in reply to the Emperor's speech. There were but three negative votes against it. On the Paris Bourse the rentes are at 68f. 20 Commercial intelligence
orted that the Emperor's brother would shortly visit Warsaw. The garrison of Warsaw was being nightly increased, but the impression was that peace would be preserved. Turkey. Serious dissensions have occurred in the Ministry. The carrying out of the new crime scheme had been postponed. The damage by inundations at Galatz and Ibralia had been so great that it was feared the commerce of those places would be seriously affected. The Porte had sent an answer to the last Russian note, in which he denies all right of foreign interference in the international affairs of Turkey. The Turkish fleet, with troops and six months provisions on board, was about to cruise off the coast of Dalmatia. India. The Bombay mails of February 12th had reached England, and the American portion have been forwarded in the Canada. The Bombay import market was quiet and drooping. Exports were active. Freights to Liverpool had advanced to £3 for cotton. Calcutta,Fe