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Showing posts with label Queen Victoria. Show all posts
Monday, September 2, 2024

Diary of Henry Greville: Tuesday, February 5, 1861

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Yesterday the Emperor Napoleon opened his Parliament with one of those fine harangues we are now become accustomed to, and which may mean an...

Diary of Henry Greville: Friday, April 26, 1861

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Intelligence has reached London this morning from New York dated 14th, by which it appears that Fort Sumter had been attacked by the Secessi...
Sunday, March 17, 2024

Albert G. Brown’s Speech on Millard Fillmore’s Message Concerning the Texas Boundary, August 8, 1850

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SPEECH IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AUGUST 8, 1850, ON PRESIDENT FILLMORE'S MESSAGE CONCERNING THE TEXAN BOUNDARY. MR. BROWN said:...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

John J. Crittenden to Count Eugène de Sartiges, October 22, 1851

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON, October 22, 1851. The undersigned, acting Secretary of State of the United States, has the honor to remin...
Monday, May 22, 2023

Senator Henry Clay to James Clay, March 13, 1850

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WASHINGTON, March 13, 1850. MY DEAR JAMES,—I have just received your favor of the 8th ultimo. I suppose that the bad state of things here ...
Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Diary of George Mifflin Dallas, March 16, 1861

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The Duchess of Kent, the Queen's mother, died this morning, in her seventy-fifth year. Away go all further drawing-rooms, levées, and ot...
Monday, April 10, 2023

Diary of George Mifflin Dallas, February 6, 1861

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Parliament was opened yesterday by the Queen in person. The military parade, turnout of royal equipages, and assemblage of Peers, Peeresses,...

Diary of George Mifflin Dallas, February 20, 1861

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The day before yesterday the "Parliament of Italy" opened its first session at Turin. A great consummation! giving the noblest imm...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Diary of Gideon Welles: Tuesday, December 27, 1864

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Mr. Seward sends me a letter from the British Chargé, stating her Majesty's desire to confer the Order of the Bath on Lieutenant Pearson...
Friday, May 29, 2020

George Coppell to Major-General Benjamin F. Butler, May 8, 1862

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BRITISH CONSULATE,                   New Orleans, May 8 , 1862 . Maj. Gen. BENJAMIN F. BUTLER, U. S..Army, Commanding Department of th...

Major-General Benjamin F. Butler to George Coppell, May 11, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,                   New Orleans, May 11 , 1862 . GEORGE COPPELL, Acting as Her Majesty's Consu...

George Coppell to Major-General Benjamin F. Butler, May 16, 1862

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BRITISH CONSULATE,                   New Orleans, May 16 , 1862 . Maj. Gen. B. F. BUTLER, Commanding Department of the Gulf: SIR: ...
Thursday, March 7, 2019

Diary of William Howard Russell: July 11, 1861

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The diplomatic circle is so totus teres atque rotundus, that few particles of dirt stick on its periphery from the road over which it trave...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Congressman Howell Cobb to Mary Ann Lamar Cobb, May 10, 1846

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Washington City , 10th May, 1846. My Dear Wife , . . . The city has been in great excitement since yesterday evening in consequence of ...
Saturday, April 1, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant John S. Morgan: Saturday, June 24, 1865

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To Bagdad a. m. for provision for mess, most of streets foot deep in water, return 11. A. M. attend Off’s call. Col sends communication fro...
Thursday, March 30, 2017

Diary of 1st Lieutenant John S. Morgan: Tuesday, June 20, 1865

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At 12 M. A salute by 2 English Men of War in honor of the Queens birthday. another schooner wrecked at the mouth of the Riogrande. ...
Saturday, December 10, 2016

Diary of John Hay: October 12, 1861

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To-night the President went to Seward's, I with him. At the door a telegram was handed him from McClellan stating that the enemy was be...
Sunday, September 18, 2016

William H. Seward to Charles Francis Adams, April 10, 1861

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Department Of State, Washington, April 10, 1861. Sir : Although Great Britain and the United States possess adjacent dominions of lar...