The Victorian Half Century: A Jubilee Book

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By Charlotte Mary Yonge

Published 1887
Macmillan

114 pages

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CHAPTER	1
leiningen, davys, peeresses
CHAPTER III	14
liddell, lyttelton, duchess
CHAPTER VI	31
macnaghten, cabul, akbar
CHAPTER VIII	39
mooltan, punjaub, montpensier
CHAPTER X	50
fulness, statues, duke
THE CRIMEAN	56
raglan, redan, troubridge

CHAPTER XII	66
sepoys, havelock, lucknow
CHAPTER XIII	74
balmoral, coburg, frogmore
CHAPTER XV	84
balmoral, princess, carriage
CHAPTER XVII	93
sandringham, princess, chesterfield
CHAPTER XVIII	99
cetewayo, zulus, beaconsfield
CHAPTER XX	110
hennessy, mahdi, soudan

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Our Magazine - Page 297
1891
To be published 1st January, 1891 and continued monthly.
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Supplement to Reading for the Young: A Classified and Annotated Catalog with Alphabetical Author ... - Page 170
by John Frederick Sargent, Mary Elizabeth Sargent, Abby Ladd Sargent - 1896 - 225 pages
... terranean States under the supremacy of Rome, and the birth, development and early organization of the Christian faith. Rawlinson, G: Story of Parthia. ...
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The Western Antiquary - Page 228
by William Henry Kearley Wright - 1887
"Reprinted after revision and correction from the 'Weekly Mercury,'" Mar. 1881-May1884.
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Khartoum - Page 111
and public opinion seems to have led the Cabinet to propose his going out to Khartoum to negotiate with the Mahdi, and bring off the garrisons. ...
more pages: 110 112

Darmstadt - Page 96
so that the marriage took place in the ensuing spring, on the very day on which Princess Alice was made happy by her husband's return to Darmstadt. ...
more pages: 91

Windsor - Page 101
The Queen welcomed them home at Windsor with great splendour. British power was extending on all sides. The natives of the cluster of islands called ...
more pages: 7 16 21 35 45 57 74 75 82 85

Gubat - Page 111
Two fierce battles were fought at Abu Klea and Gubat, on the banks of the Nile, both success-ful ; but the gallant general, Sir Herbert Stewart, ...

Ulundi - Page 106
The victory at Ulundi, gained by Lord Chelmsford, broke up the power of Cetewayo, who was pursued, made prisoner, and carried to Cape Town, ...

Villa Franca - Page 77
ended by the treaty of Villa Franca, without doing more than placing Northern Italy under the constitutional mon-archy of Victor Emmanuel of Sardinia. ...

Delhi - Page 101
whose power the whole peninsula acknowledged ; and on the ist of January 1876 she was proclaimed Empress at Calcutta, Bombay, Madras, and Delhi, ...
more pages: 69

Waterloo - Page 62
There was desperate courage and fearful loss in each case, but neither was successful; and Lord Raglan, bitterly grieved at failing on Waterloo day, ...
more pages: 58

Augusta - Page 4
She added that she now saw why she had been made to learn Latin, when it had not been required of her cousin Augusta. ...

Berlin - Page 96
her husband at the Darmstadt station, and on the 2 6th of June the two sisters were rejoicing together in the triumphal return of the army to Berlin. ...
more pages: 95

Paris - Page 94
No sooner did the tidings reach Paris than the people were filled with fury against the Bonaparte family. The Empress Eugenie fled in disguise from ...
more pages: 40 63

Cologne - Page 35
She was enthusiastically welcomed everywhere, and at Cologne, outside Farina's factory, the ground was sprinkled with the famous scent named from that ...

Cambridge - Page 8
Her mother sat on one side of her, and the Princess Augusta on the other, then the Duchesses of Gloucester and Cambridge and the Princess of Cambridge ...
more pages: 81

Brussels - Page 79
but the journey ended in a severe cold and sore throat of the Queen, which obliged her to keep to her own room while she was at Brussels. ...

Mayence - Page 95
There were four of these at Mayence under Princess Alice. "I hope," she writes, "that I shall not live to see another war. It is too dreadful. ...

Dublin - Page 80
There was a visit to Dublin, as much enjoyed as the two previous ones in 1849 and 1853, and this was followed by an expedition to Killarney with the ...

Manchester - Page 71
The first tidings reached England on the 2 7th of June, just as the royal party were starting to open a Loan Exhibition of works of art at Manchester, ...

Cape Town - Page 106
The victory at Ulundi, gained by Lord Chelmsford, broke up the power of Cetewayo, who was pursued, made prisoner, and carried to Cape Town, but these ...

Calcutta - Page 71
Happily the mutiny was confined to Bengal, and the city of Calcutta, the seat of Government, remained secure. The first tidings reached England on the ...

London - Page 41
The Queen's courage and confidence in her people never failed ; but it was thought wiser that she should leave London, and she went down to Osborne, ...
more pages: 6 17 20 38 40 84 96

Cairo - Page 108
Alexandria was bombarded and captured, there was a grand victory at Tel-el-Kebir, and the troops entered Cairo in triumph, soon after making Arabi ...

Oxford - Page 90
The present writer was at a large public assembly at Oxford when the intelli-gence was telegraphed to the Earl of Carnarvon (Colonial Secretary), ...

Bombay - Page 69
The Crown appointed a Governor-General and a Governor for each of the Presi-dencies of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay, and kept English troops there ...

Hanover - Page 5
opening of her first Parliament, going in the old-fashioned State-coach, drawn by the equally old-fashioned cream- coloured horses, bred in Hanover,.

Sydney - Page 90
In the early part of the year 1868 his ship, the Galatea, was in the harbour at Sydney. He had gone ashore for a picnic, when he was suddenly shot in ...