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... itself. And timt opportunity of redeeming its name will come Wednesday on Soldiers Field, 1907 Golf Schedule That only one-half tiie number of matche... ... North Adams TKLEPHON8 245-3 THE CRIMSONWEDNESDAY Wiliianns and Harvard on Soldiers Field—Harvard Scores Williams will meet the Harvard baseball team ... ...Harvard baseball team in the last game but one before the western trip, on Soldiers field, Wednesday after- noon. Harvard has opened its season in goo... ... will bold their meetings in that room. The football game between 1911 and Manchester academy which was to have been played last Saturday on Weston Fi... ...was to have been played last Saturday on Weston Field was cancelled by the Manchester management on account of the condition of the field. Professor M... ...athletic cornivol held by companies A, C, D, and Field Music of the Second Regiment, N. G.. N. Y., will take place. The meet is expected to be the lar...

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...N. 6 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six SPEECH TO THE 12TH INDIANA REGIMENT, MA Y [15?] 1862 SOLDIERS, OF THE TWELFTH INDIANA REGIMENT: It has... ...ham Lincoln: V ol Six SPEECH TO THE 12TH INDIANA REGIMENT, MA Y [15?] 1862 SOLDIERS, OF THE TWELFTH INDIANA REGIMENT: It has not been customary hereto... ...ary heretofore, nor will it be hereafter, for me to say something to every regiment passing in review. It occurs too frequently for me to have speeche... ... performed in this great struggle, I tender more thanks especially to this regiment, which has been the subject of good report. The thanks of the nati... ...e amount to the treasury in interest, would greatly facilitate payments to soldiers and other creditors of small sums, and would furnish; to the peopl... ... this policy. And the same is true of the religious people. Why, the rebel soldiers are pray- ing with a great deal more earnestness, I fear, than our... ...r future de- mands on the treasury. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. TO THE WORKING-MEN OF MANCHESTER, ENGLAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, January, 1863. TO THE ... ...LAND. EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, January, 1863. TO THE WORKING-MEN OF MANCHESTER: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the address and ... ...lantic. I know and deeply deplore the sufferings which the work- ingmen at Manchester, and in all Europe, are called to endure in this crisis. It has ...

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...splendour of a lord. 11 Thackeray CHAPTER XXVII In Which Amelia Joins Her Regiment WHEN JOS’S FINE CARRIAGE drove up to the inn door at Chatham, the ... ...bow of which he was capable; to which Amelia, seeing the number of the the regiment em- broidered on the Ensign’s cap, replied with a blushing smile, ... ...drille, or that it is very hot weather? George, always the champion of his regiment, rose immensely in the opinion of the youth of the corps, by his g... ...ion from Avesnes had been distributed everywhere plentifully in Brussels. “Soldiers!” it said, “this is the anniversary of Marengo and Friedland, by w... ... march once more to meet them. We and they, are we not still the same men? Soldiers! these same 52 V anity Fair – V olume Two Prussians who are so ar... ... of quite insane enthusiasm. He believed in his wife as much as the French soldiers in Napoleon. Her success in Paris was remarkable. All the French l... ...tuous dark green carriage, a prospect of speedy knighthood, and a house in Manchester Square) that her grief at weaning the child was a sight that wou...

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...bakeries, which have been con- structed in the basement for the use of the soldiers; and there is on the other hand the road by which wagons find thei... ...s no egress, it would gen- erally be deeply surrounded by a crowd of muddy soldiers, who would wait there patiently till time should enable them to ap... ...d, very good. At any rate it was sweet, airy, and large. In these days the soldiers had got hold of ev- erything. The Treasury chambers is as yet an u... ...me that these were men going on furlough, or on special occasions; for the regiments were of course not received by ordinary passenger trains. 72 Nor... ...er furnished I did not hear; but it was openly stated that the colonels of regiments received large gratuities from certain railway companies for the ... ...nd him briskly employed in arranging the appointments of officers. All the regimental appointments to the volunteer regiments— and that is practically... ...ch inquiries more or less upon the doings of the army. If a stranger visit Manchester with the object of seeing what sort of place Manchester is, he m... ...in the States—is more akin to a Paris mob, and I may perhaps also say to a Manchester mob, than that of any other American city. There are more roughs...

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... a mortal. This was no other than Captain William Dobbin, of His Majesty’s Regiment of Foot, returned from yellow fever, in the West Indies, to which ... ... in the West Indies, to which the fortune of the service had or- dered his regiment, whilst so many of his gallant comrades were reaping glory in the ... ...n had entered the army: and young Osborne followed pres- ently in the same regiment. They had served in the West Indies and in Canada. Their regiment ... ...Whirter, or on potatoes, like old O’Dowd. Do you expect my wife to take in soldiers’ washing, or ride after the regiment in a baggage waggon?” “Well, ... ...ion from Avesnes had been distributed everywhere plentifully in Brussels. “Soldiers!” it said, “this is the anniversary of Marengo and Friedland, by w... ... march once more to meet them. We and they, are we not still the same men? Soldiers! these same Prussians who are so arrogant to-day, were three to on... ...tuous dark green carriage, a prospect of speedy knighthood, and a house in Manchester Square) that her grief at weaning the child was a sight that wou...

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...d Kilpont, confirmed by Parliament in 1634, and was made Major of Argyle’s regiment in 1648. Such are the facts of the tale here given as a Legend of ... ... their bravery; but in adopting the trade 8 Sir Walter Scott of mercenary soldiers, they necessarily injured their national character. The tincture o... ...following formi- dable title:— “Monro his Expedition with the worthy Scots Regiment, called MacKeye’s Regiment, levied in August 9 Sir Walter Scott 1... ...t spare hours, by Colonel Robert Monro, as First Lieutenant under the said Regiment, to the noble and worthy Captain Thomas MacKenzie of Kildon, broth... ...and discontented nobility, under whom it was officered chiefly by Scottish soldiers of fortune, who had served in the German wars until they had lost ... ... qui sine causae respectu mercede conducti, mili- tant. To these mercenary soldiers, as well as to the needy gentry with whom they were mixed in comma... ...eir very wish. The junction of the Scottish army with those of Fairfax and Manchester, enabled the Parliamentary forces to besiege Y ork, and to fight...

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...gion by which she carried this sublime frenzy into the hearts of women, of soldiers, and of all who lived by labor. Henceforwards she was thwarted; an... ...usand years,—Lincoln, Winchester, Portsmouth, Gloucester, Oxford, Bristol, Manchester, York, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Perth, Glasgow—expressing the grand... ... relation in the Peninsular army. Oh! yes: her only son was there. In what regiment? He was a trooper in the 23d Dragoons. My heart sank within me as ... ...3d Dragoons. My heart sank within me as she made that answer. This sublime regiment, which an Englishman should never mention without raising his hat ... ...y, I believe, not so many as one in four survived. And this, then, was the regiment—a regiment al- ready for some hours known to myself and all London... ...ded. Confluent with these impressions, from the terrific experience on the Manchester and Glasgow mail, were other and more general impressions, de- r... ...banners displayed and martial pomps, we make our second entry as crusading soldiers militant for God, by personal choice and by sacramental oath. Each... ...us race completes for himself the aborigi- nal fall. As I drew near to the Manchester post office, I found that it was considerably past midnight; but...

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...ced my memoirs then in July, 1694, being at that time colonel of a cavalry regiment bearing my name, in the camp of Guinsheim, upon the old Rhine, in ... ...i- ments of cavalry or infantry, before receiving permission to purchase a regiment. My father took me, therefore, to V ersailles, where he had not be... ...1692, with the la- dies; and I performed the journey on horseback with the soldiers and all the attendants, like the other Musketeers, and continued t... ...t concerns him,— did not long survive this incident. He entered the King’s regiment, and when just upon the point of joining it in the following sprin... ...The effect of the King’s retreat, indeed, was incredible, even amongst the soldiers and the people. The general officers could not keep silent upon it... ...al de Villeroy took Huy in three days, losing only a sub-engineer and some soldiers. On the 29th of July we attacked at dawn the Prince of Orange at N... .... Soon afterwards he was recognised by the new King of Spain. The Count of Manchester, English ambassador in France, ceased to appear at Versailles af...

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...s in a world of evil and strife. Though born in a large town, (the town of Manchester, even then amongst the largest of the island,) I had passed the ... ...w that a conspiracy was traced at Wa- terloo, between two or three foreign regiments, for kindling a panic in the heat of battle, by flight, and by a ... ...ly built by my father, at that time was a clear mile from the outskirts of Manchester; but in after years Manchester, throwing out the tentacula of it... ...tween Greenhay and Princess Street, then the termination, on that side, of Manchester. But so it was. Oxford Street, like its name- sake in London, wa... ...icu- ous as to imply special malice, unworthy, I conceive, of all generous soldiership. On returning to our own frontiers, I had an opportunity of dis... ...much to my grief, that a wretched ichthyophagous people must make shocking soldiers, weak as water, and liable to be knocked over like ninepins; where... ...alf from Greenhay stood some horse barracks, occupied usually by an entire regiment of cavalry. A large dog—one of a multitude that haunted the barrac... ...bable. All the troops of the line then quartered in that city, and a whole regiment of volunteers, immediately got under arms, and marched to the quar... ...lled the debt on a refusal to receive the state paper, and which quartered soldiers upon all tradesmen who demurred to such a tender. But, upon the wh...

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...m” (a pretty, rustic dwelling occupied by my father in the neighborhood of Manchester), and subsequently (when that arose) to Greenhay.* As my father ... ...hen that arose) to Greenhay.* As my father always retained a town-house in Manchester (somewhere in Fountain-street), and, though a plain, unpretendin... ...dent course, with a view to my pecuniary interests, was to place me at the Manchester Grammar School; not with a view to further improvement in my cla... ...ng men, aged severally sixteen and seventeen years, went out to join their regiments, both regiments be- ing on the Bengal establishment. Very differe... ...s, as it were, the army, and the colleges express the several brigades, or regiments. To resume, therefore, my own thread of personal narra- tion. On ... ... forward as supporting the part of that age. Not that old men are not also soldiers; but that the military profession, so far from strengthening, mode... ...irst, in the British, where he served in the Greys, and in the forty-third regiment; and subsequently, during the campaign of 1813, as a captain on th... ... uncle Selim, even at the hazard of the same fate. Why was it that Turkish soldiers had been made ridiculous in arms, as often as they had met with Fr... ...in hand at the expense of the Moslems.* Even in their quietest mood, these soldiers curbed T urkish tyranny; for, the captains and *Originally, it see...

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...ships, a couple of experimental ves- sels of war, and twenty-five thousand soldiers indifferently weaponed. We were in fact as naked to the Imperial f... ... require. It turned out that we had ships ready for launching, and certain regiments com- ing home from India; hedges we had, and a spirited body of y... ... for this were the activity and the prevalence of the ignoble doctrines of Manchester—a power whose very existence was unknown to Mr. Beauchamp. He wo... ...ude the non-commissioned officers, the privates, and the cooks, of all the regiments?’ He could scarcely think that, but thought it provoking the Fren... ...he reason for the in- quiry, he might learn how a letter to a crack French regiment should be addressed and directed. This proved persuasive, and as t... ... in precocious contempt of glory. Some- where, somehow, he had got hold of Manchester sarcasms concerning glory: a weedy word of the newspapers had be... ...ng motto for a composite struc- ture like the kingdom of Great Britain and Manchester, boy Nevil. We can fight foreigners when the time comes.’ He dir... ...r line. Don’t go out of it till you are ordered out. Remember that we want soldiers and sailors, we don’t want suicides.’ He condescended to these ita... ...ful; every kind heart that went to bed with cold feet felt acutely for our soldiers on the frozen heights, and thoughts of heroes were as good as warm...

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...delicate health, he joined the Artists’ Rifles O.T.C., was gazetted to the Manchester Regiment, and served with their 2nd Battalion in France from Dec... ...alth, he joined the Artists’ Rifles O.T.C., was gazetted to the Manchester Regiment, and served with their 2nd Battalion in France from December 1916 ... ...am, and ask — he knows not what. A Terre (Being the philosophy of many Soldiers.) Sit on the bed; I’m blind, and three parts shell, Be careful; ca... ...I shall not know I wince. Don’t take my soul’s poor comfort for your jest. Soldiers may grow a soul when turned to fronds, But here the thing’s best l...

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...TION I. LIFE I. LIFE I. LIFE I. LIFE I. LIFE THOMAS DE QUINCEY was born in Manchester on the 15th of August, 1785. His father was a man of high charac... ...ly removed to The Farm, and later to Greenhay, a larger country place near Manchester. In 1796 De Quincey’s mother, now for some years a widow, remove... ...ian mob better than you or I could address an English one.” He was sent to Manchester Grammar School, however, in order that after three years’ stay h... ...e relative in the Peninsular army. Oh yes; her only son was there. In what regiment? He was a trooper in the 23d Dragoons. My heart sank within me as ... ...entually, I be- lieve, about one in four survived. And this, then, was the regiment—a regiment already for some hours glorified and hallowed to the ea... ...een paid, not therefore was I si- lent on the contributions from her son’s regiment to that 38 The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc day’s service a... ...gion by which she carried this sublime frenzy into the hearts of women, of soldiers, and of all who lived by labour. Henceforward she was thwarted; an... ... 50 10 BUYING IT , ETC.: De Quincey refers, no doubt, to the pay of common soldiers and to the practice of employ- ing mercenaries. 52 1 FASTER THAN E...

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... thought) to demand satisfaction for my looking at the housekeeper, when they plunged into a recess in the architecture under my window and dragged ou... ...s, by whom I was accidentally ac- companied, took this direction as we took the up-hill direc- tion, because the object of my uncommercial journey was... ...ng them; there were men who had been in many of the great battles of the Charles Dickens 72 great Indian campaign, among them; and I was curious to n... ...y in the un- commercial line. This was a man who, though not more than thirty, had seen the world in divers irreconcilable capacities—had been an offi... ... by the forehead, sometimes by the girdle and the shoulders, not a pleasant sight to see. Scattered through this country are mighty works of Vauban, w... ..., “Why, where could he have been brought up?” The boy had never seen the sea or been on a real ship before’? Or, is there any proof in these boys bein... ...ner were the more in request, and many were bought. The title ran: ‘Sacred Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Church of Jesus Church of Latter-Day Sain... ... of patronage. In the great work- ing districts, this truth is studied and understood. When the American civil war rendered it necessary, first in Gla... ...ccess. Such thoughts passed through my mind on a July morn- ing of this summer, as I walked towards Commercial Street (not Uncommercial Street), White...

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...he scene of this murder was at a rustic inn, some few miles (I think) from Manchester; and the advantageous situation of this inn it was, out of which... ...heir execution, the bodies were privately exhibited by the surgeons of the Manchester Infirmary, as objects of statuesque interest. On the other hand,... ...urse. With the landlord, however, on his re- turn about eight o’clock from Manchester, one of the broth- ers entered into a lively conversation; invit... ... that having acciden- 53 Thomas de Quincey tally seen a native Devonshire regiment (either volunteers or militia), nine hundred strong, marching past... ...ve to introduce to you Colo- nel Wesley, who is a lieutenant-colonel of my regiment. He is a sensible man, and a good officer.’ Posterity, for we are ... ...e.’ William III. again, about eleven years afterwards, raised twenty-three regiments with the same ease and in the same space of six weeks. It may be ... ...ast dramatically: and the differ- ence is as between an army consisting of soldiers who should each individually be competent to go through the duties...

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...the barracks as soon as the Martians emerged, for the help of a company of soldiers to protect these strange creatures from violence. After that they ... ...enish-white smoke whirled up to the starlit sky. About eleven a company of soldiers came through Horsell, and deployed along the edge of the common to... ...e day, and one, Major Eden, was reported to be missing. The colonel of the regiment came to the Chobham bridge and was busy questioning the crowd at m... ...quadron of hussars, two Maxims, and about four hundred men of the Cardigan regiment started from Aldershot. A few seconds after midnight the crowd in ... ... walk down towards the common. Under the railway bridge I found a group of soldiers—sappers, I think, men in small round caps, 32 The War of the Worl... ...ith the adjacent houses, and massacred an entire battalion of the Cardigan Regiment. No details are known. Maxims have been absolutely useless against... ... flashed into frantic illuminations; they knew of it in Dublin, Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, at the time when I stood upon the verge of the pit....

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...and all convenient occasions to well over two hundred, of lead sailors and soldiers, horse, foot and artillery, inhab- ited this world. Justice has ne... ...tillery, inhab- ited this world. Justice has never been done to bricks and soldiers by those who write about toys. The praises of the toy theatre have... ...eatre once, but I never loved it nor hoped for much from it; my bricks and soldiers were my perpetual drama. I recall an incessant vari- ety of intere... ...E keeps ‘is side-arms awful: ‘e leaves ‘em all about An’ then comes up the regiment an’ pokes the ‘eathen out. All along o’ dirtiness, all along o... ...d off by his passions for a “bit of a spree” to Birmingham or Liverpool or Manchester. The in- dulgences of these occasions were usually followed by a... ...ies would prevent it. If Messrs. Perowne or Cook organised a cheap tour of Manchester op- eratives, it would be stopped. No one dare bring the average... ...at prototype, was Herbert Spencer (who couldn’t read Kant); such are whole regiments of prominent and entirely self-satisfied contemporaries. They go ...

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... out on the Mall; and well I knew what he expected. Sometimes a company of soldiers would move along on their way to the Fort, and Garm rolled forth t... ...It is the custom in India to send a certain number of inva- lids from each regiment up to stations in the Himalayas for the hot weather; and though th... ... did the next best thing I left him alone. That summer the invalids of the regiment to which my friend belonged were ordered off to the Hills early, b... ...m. “I was wondering where that brute had gone to. He’s the best dog in the regiment,” said my friend. “I offered the little fellow twenty rupees for h... ...d to steal them both. Vixen, of course, knew better than to take food from soldiers, and, besides, she had just finished her breakfast. So she trotted... ...“Hear him, Mummy!” “I did though! I wish I could show you the sample. Some Manchester chaps said it was as good as any Sea Island cot- ton on the mark... ...” When they were gone the Governor mopped his forehead. “We must put a few soldiers in every village this Groombride visits, Baker. Tell ‘em to keep o...

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...hed and tamed, Stood half admiring, half ashamed. VIII. Boldly she spoke: ‘Soldiers, attend! My father was the soldier’s friend, Cheered him in camps,... ...race, She bade her slender purse be shared 103 Sir Walter Scott Among the soldiers of the guard. The rest with thanks their guerdon took, But Brent, ... ...boggy or peaty dis- trict, like the famous Chat Moss between Liverpool and Manchester. 93. Lochard. Loch Ard is a beautiful lakelet, about five miles ... ...alry, then serving as auxiliaries in France, and about two thousand common soldiers, A.D. 1424" (Scott). 307. What time, etc. That is, at the time whe... ...tiquities, vol. i. p. 164) informs us that in 1747 the privates of the 42d regiment, then in Flanders, were for the most part permitted to carry targe...

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...merely glimpsed the river, then died and was buried in it by his priests and soldiers. One would expect the priests and the soldiers to multiply the r... ...t enough of this. I had never felt so fine before. And when I found that the regiment of natty servants re spectfully “sir’d” me, my satisfaction was... ... collared my partner and were bringing him up to the pilot house between two soldiers. Somebody had said I was killed. He put his head in and saw me o... ...ant in a definite direction to begin with: Those two robbers were manifestly soldiers in tramp disguise; and not new to mili tary service, but old in... ... week from a deceased relative, through a New York spiritualist medium named Manchester—postage graduated by distance: from the local post office in ... ... York, five dollars; from New York to St. Louis, three cents. I remember Mr. Manchester very well. I called on him once, ten years ago, with a couple ... ...rough Mr. Manches ter, and the late uncle wrote down his replies, using Mr. Manchester’s hand and pencil for that purpose. The follow ing is a fair ...