A Soldier Who Deserved His Success
GOVERNOR Curtin tells the following, says the New York TRIBUNE: —"Riding over the fields just after the battle of Spottsylvania I came…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1892
16 stories in New England's papers
Sketcher. The Next Great War
A recent German writer, Major Hiudchrift, gives an interesting account of the probabilities of the next war, assuming that Franco and Germany are the combatants,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Men-of-war Ship Pets
The Phaeton has a lamb which wears a blue ribbon on Sunday, but even thus adorned it does not seem to meet all requirements, and great anxiety was expressed to secure…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Life of a Soldier
LORD Wolseley, speaking at the Irish Military Society's meeting recently, said he wished that the lecture, "A Soldier's Life," delivered…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Praises of War
'All healthy men like fighting and like the sense of danger; all brave women like to hear of their fighting and of their facing danger,' says Mr. Raskin, who has taken…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Reinterment of Crimean Soldiers
THE ceremony of transferring the remains of the soldiers and sailors who died in the Crimean war from Peikos to the Scutari Memorial…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Triumphs of Shipbuilding. the Largest War Vessel in the World
THE largest warship in the world, the Resolution, has been launched on the Tyne (says a contemporary). It has a displacement of upwards…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Life of a Soldier's Wife
IN, the divorce division, London, lately, Mrs. Jane Christie sought to have her marriage with a soldier in the 16th Lancers dissolved. She said…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Smokeless Powder in War
The introduction f smokeless powder has had considerable to do with a change of tactics on the field of battle. In the absence of the smoke screen on both sides, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →(Copyrighy.) Love Better Than Sacrifice: an International Conflict. Chapter Xv. Come of the Wounded
When Percy Thorndon parted from Mr. Burdick at Capri and started on his journey by boat, carriage, and rail to Naples, be bad quite enough to think about to make the seven or eight hours he…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Brilliant Scottish Soldier
AS a young captain of 19, Robert Craufurd studied tactics under Frederick the Great, at Potsdam, manoeuvres, 6 years before Valmy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sketcher. the Russian Soldiers
The Russian soldiers are devoted to their officers, and work cheerily and well, and may be heard singing--and very well, too-- wherever they are in any numbers at work…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Soldier in Petticoats. a Story of the Campaign in Bosnia During the Russio-turkish War
IT was during the campaign of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1677-78. I was very young then, and consequently full of enthusiasm and exaggerated ideas of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Cool Soldier
A correspondent, writing of the late Lord Strathnairn, says he was the most indolent, lackadaisical, languid person who ever dawdled along Piccadilly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Horrors of War
IN the London Quarterly Review appears an interesting notice of Baron de Marbot's. Memoirs, which gives incidentally some vivid, pictures of what is actually meant by "glorious victories."…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Stupid Soldier Changed by a Bullet in his Brain
"THE war was responsible for many queer things," said Dr. Eugene Hardcastle, a St. Paul surgeon now at the Southern. " Up in Northern Minnesota lives a man who entered the service…
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