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The Daily Dispatch: May 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], Inducements to naval enterprise. (search)
A case and a parallel.
In the year 1811, Marshal Massens, "the spoiled child of victory," as he had been styled, with an army of 70,000 veterans, the flower of Napoleon's legions, undertook the invasion of Portugal by the Northern route.
He had been ordered to take Lisbon at all hazards, and to drive the English into the sea. "On to Lisbon" was the word, and not a man in the French army doubted that Lisbon would soon be captured.
Wellington, with an army of 60,000 men, 35,000 of them Brire them for two months, and losing half his army in partial attacks, in which, from the protection afforded by their works, he inflicted scarcely any loss upon the enemy, he fell back, and was pursued by Wellington, who drove him entirely out of Portugal and into Spain.
Every military writer who has written upon this campaign — among them Napoleon himself, and Napier — has described the attack upon Busaco as an enormous blunder, which occasional the loss of eight or ten thousand men, which was
The Daily Dispatch: June 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], From Staunton — further particulars of the late fight. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: September 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], The capture of the Georgia . (search)
family then settled in France, and took service in the French army.
Major Fraser's father emigrated to Portugal in 1790, and took a Portuguese wife.
The issue of this marriage made its way in the world.
Two daughters, yet living, are the wives of rich noblemen; the one is a Marquis de Bombolles, and the other the Marquisone son was a secretary of embassy in Austria; the other, Henry Erskine Fraser, was the Major Fraser who has just gone to his grave.
He was born at Badajoz, Portugal, where he lived up to the age of eleven years. He had then lost both father and mother, and was committed to the care of M. de Labselern, the tutor of Prince Fel in Paris, but never played himself.
Notwithstanding his eccentric, and, as many supposed, frivolous life, he had a practical taste for the industrial pursuits of the present age. He was a director of several railways, and died ultimately from a fever caught in Portugal, whither he had gone to organize a company.--London Globe.
The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1865., [Electronic resource], Statistics of slavery. (search)
The Pope's letter.
--The Pope's encyclical letter has met with disfavor from the different Governments of Europe.--In Russia and Poland the reading of it has been absolutely prohibited.
So it has been in France; but in that country the greater part of the archbishops and bishops have set the Government at defiance, and have, read the letter from their pulpits.
In Austria, Prussia, Spain and Portugal, the Government has contented itself with reminding the clergy that the publication of such a document, without the consent of the temporal ruler, is an infraction of the law which will subject them to penalties.
In England, the Government does not trouble its head about such matters; so that the Catholic clergy can do as they please about it.
The Daily Dispatch: December 16, 1865., [Electronic resource], Cholera and cattle plague. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1865., [Electronic resource], French industrial Exhibition. (search)