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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 12 : (search)
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 47 : (search)
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 50 : (search)
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, The American revolution. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: November 10, 1860., [Electronic resource],
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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
The Daily Dispatch: January 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National Crisis. (search)
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The Paris Moniteur says the French fleet is withdrawn from Gaeta.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
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