The World's Great Events: An Indexed History of the World from Earliest Times to the Present Day, Band 7Esther Singleton P. F. Collier, 1916 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
advance allies American army arrived attack Austria Baggara batteries battle brigade British cable Canal cavalry Chen Yuen Chih Yuen Chinese colonial command Confederate Congress corps Crown declared defeated Dervishes Egyptian Emperor Empire enemy England English eral European fell fight fire flag flagship fleet force fought France French Garibaldi gave German Gettysburg guns Inkerman Italian Italy Japan Japanese Juarez killed King land Liberals light Lord Derby Lord Raglan loss Louis Napoleon March Meade ment miles military Mount Inkerman Napoleon officers Omdurman opened Paris passed peace Piedmont port position President Prim Prince Prince of Hohenzollern provinces Queen railway retreat revolution Russian Saikyo Sebastopol sent Serrano shell ship shot side siege slave smoke soldiers South Spain Spanish Squadron steam Suakim success Teresa Ting Yuen tion treaty troops Turkey Union United vessels victory Vizcaya wounded Yang Wei
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 2181 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Seite 2265 - We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.
Seite 2064 - Nobody however who has paid any attention to the particular features of our present era, will doubt for a moment that we are living at a period of most wonderful transition, which tends rapidly to the accomplishment of that great end to which, indeed, all History points — the realization of the unity of Mankind.
Seite 2189 - Mr. President, I approve of the proclamation, but I question the expediency of its issue at this juncture. The depression of the public mind, consequent upon our repeated reverses, is so great that I fear the effect of so important a step. It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help ; the Government stretching forth its hands to Ethiopia, instead of Ethiopia stretching forth her hands to the Government.
Seite 2065 - So man is approaching a more complete fulfilment of that great and sacred mission which he has to perform in this world. His reason being created after the image of God, he has to use it to discover the laws by which the Almighty governs his creation, and, by making those laws his standard of action, to conquer Nature to his use — himself a divine instrument.
Seite 2206 - Will our Generals never get that idea out of their heads? The whole country is our soil.
Seite 2064 - I conceive it to be the duty of every educated person closely to watch and study the time in which he lives ; and, as far as in him lies, to add his humble mite of individual exertion to further the accomplishment of what he believes Providence to have ordained.
Seite 2066 - The Exhibition of 1851 is to give us a true test and a living picture of the point of development at which the whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new starting point from which all nations will be able to direct their further exertions.
Seite 2115 - He had to surrender at last to famine; but the very articles of surrender to which the conqueror consented became the trophy of Williams and his men. The garrison were allowed to leave the place with all the honors of war ; and, " as a testimony to the valorous resistance made by the garrison of Kars, the officers of all ranks are to keep their swords.
Seite 2359 - ... a corpse, then, caught by a. sudden jet of fury, bounding forward, checking, sinking limply to the ground. Now under the black flag in a ring of bodies stood only three men, facing the three thousand of the Third Brigade. They folded their arms about the staff and gazed steadily forward. Two fell. The last Dervish stood up and filled his chest ; he shouted the name of his God and hurled his spear. Then he stood quite still, waiting. It took him full ; he quivered, gave at the knees, and toppled...