War Items
The Swiss army now numbers 477 commissioned office[?]s, and its effective strength is 200,754 men. The highest ra[?]k recognised in the Swiss army during peace is that of Colonel…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New England · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1886
31 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 2
War and Christianity
HOW utterly in this matter Christianity came to forsake its earlier idea is known to all. This resulted partly from the frequent use of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Peace or War?
THE outlook in Europe at present is, it roust be confessed, anything but bright Signs of impending trouble are visible in more quarters than one. How far the exit of Lord…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Threatened Outbreak of War
IN diplomatic circles an outbreak of war is predicted What precise " casus belli'' is to be formulated when hostilities are declared ; by what nation the sword will first be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Playing at Soldiers
A Sydney Lancer write a very indignant letter to one of the Sydney dailies, concerning his dismissal from the aristocratic corps of Lance- ahs. He concludes with the very sensible words :-- 'To my…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Old War Horses
WE know from Piotarch that, with the exception of Alexander the Great, no man dared mount Bucephalus, the noble war steed, upon whose head a black mark resembling an ox was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Home Rule for Ireland. Riots in Belfast : Eight Persons Killed and Wounded
THE news of the defeat of the Home Rule Bill was the cause of great rejoicing among all classes of Loyalists in the North of Ireland. In Belfast on Tuesday night there were several local…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Probable Continental War. London, August 18
IT is stated on official authority that the Imperial Government have not yet decided on the immediate withdrawal of the British Afghan Frontier Commission, aud that communications are passing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Probable Continental War. London, August 18
IT is stated on official authority that the Imperial Government have not yet decided on the immediate withdrawal of the British Afghan Frontier Commission, and that communication's are passing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Continental War Brewing
LONDON, August 24.-- In the House of Commons to-day, Sir James Ferguson, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, confirmed the news of the deposition of Prince Alexander of Bulgaria, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →France Preparing for War
A FEW days ago the special organ of General Boulanger, La France Militaire, called upon the Government to lose no time in supplying officers with campaigning uniforms similar in color to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Love and War. a Historical Romance. CHAPTER I.
[?] never saw anything go joyful as the return of Louis XVIIL, in 1814. It wan in the spring, when hodges, the gardens, and the orchards are in blossom. People had suffered so much misery for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Latest Cablegrams. London, Tuesday. War Probable
CONSEQUENT upon the menacing attitude of Russia, Turkey is arming. The general opinion is that, although Austria acquiesces in the policy of Bismarck, an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Preparation
The Turkish Government are making great military exertions on the Bulgarain and Armenian frontiers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Love and War. a Historical Romance. Caapter Iii
I remember this visit of Aunt Grathel's so well, because a week: afterwards began the processions, the explanations, and the preachings, which never left off until the return of the Emperor in 1816, and which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Love and War. a Historical Romance. Chapter Vi
"Here are your comrades, coming back beaten, [?]militated, crushed ! Herp they come, bowing their heads under another cockade." No, I never felt anything like it. Later on, many of these men…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Love and War. a Historical Romance. Chapter Vii--(continued.)
And then Zebedee came and told me that every day Russian, Austrian, Prussian, and Bavarian officers crossed the town to [?] our commandant, Mens de la Fa[?]anderie, an old emigrant, who loaded the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Love and War. a Historical Romance. CHAPTER VIII,--(Continued.)
What she has been talking about is just what I wish most m the whole world. May Heaven hear her! I was quite moved by this good wish. Then she…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Great War Preparations
Extensive war preparations now being made by Russia are considered sinister and ominous, and the peace of Europe seems to hang like Damocle's sword "on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Love and War. a Historical Romance. Chapter Xii
From that moment there was confusion every-where. The half-pay officers cried, 'Vive I' Empereur!' The town-commandant would have given orders to arrest there, but the battalions held with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →