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Showing posts with label Prussia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prussia. Show all posts
Saturday, March 18, 2023

Diary of George Mifflin Dallas, January 20, 1861

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If we are in turmoil on the western side of the Atlantic, they are not much better off on this eastern side. The King of Prussia has just sa...
Friday, June 14, 2019

John L. Motley to Anna Lothrop Motley, November 17, 1863

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November 17, 1863. My Dearest Mother : . . . I shall say nothing of our home affairs save that I am overjoyed at the results of the ele...
Saturday, February 2, 2019

John L. Motley to Ann Lothrop Motley, May 12, 1863

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Vienna , May 12, 1863. My Dearest Mother : Since Easter brought an end to the Lenten entertainments which succeeded the carnival, ther...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

Baron Otto von Bismarck to John L. Motley, April 17, 1863

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Berlin, April 17, 1863. My Dear Motley : You have given me a great pleasure with your letter of the 9th, and I shall be very grateful...
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Samuel Gridley Howe to Senator Charles Sumner, December 26, 1851

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Boston , Dec. 26, 1851. Dear Sumner : — . . . I told you I should give you my views touching that part of your beautiful speech from wh...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, October 10, 1863

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Lord Lyons, who returned last night, called on me to-day with Admiral Milne and staff, accompanied by Secretary Seward. Admiral Milne has a...
Sunday, July 23, 2017

John L. Motley to Mary Lothrop Motley, February 17, 1863

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Vienna , February 17, 1863. My Dearest Little Mary : I hope that you will accept this note from me as the family contribution for to-da...
Friday, February 17, 2017

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: February 16, 1863

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Another gun-boat has got past Vicksburg. But three British steamers have run into Charleston with valuable cargoes. Gen. Lee is now sen...
Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Francis Lieber to Major-General Henry W. Halleck, October 15, 1864

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New YorK , October 15, 1864. . . . I dare say you have already attended to the subject I am going to write about; still I feel prompted...
Sunday, April 14, 2013

Later From Europe

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Arrival of the Anglo Saxon. PORTLAND, MAINE, Jan. 30. – The Anglo Saxon from Liverpool, 16th, via Queenstown, 17th, arrived here this m...
Saturday, March 9, 2013

The year 1861 was unlucky to the crowned heads . . .

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. . . as Napoleon truly observed in his New Year’s day speech.   Prussia buried a King, the effete Sultan of Turkey sank into the grave, th...
Sunday, September 9, 2012

Possibility of a Civil War in Germany

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From the foreign papers it appears that the condition of affairs throughout the great Germanic Confederation, is, in many respects similar...
Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Trouble Brewing in Europe

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If all the ages of the times do not fail, there is a crisis approaching in European affairs, that will require the whole attention of the ...
Sunday, June 19, 2011

Foreign News

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PORTLAND, March 4. The steamer Norwegian, from Liverpool on the 20 th , Londonderry 21 st ult. arrived this morning. The political news p...
Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Arrival of the America

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HALIFAX, Feb. 10. The America, from Liverpool 25th ult., via Queenstown 26th, has arrived. Sales of cotton Saturday, 5,000 bales; market clo...