Siege of Lucknow Told Through Heroic Remains and Escape
Rev Dr Talmage opens world travel sermons with Lucknow siege as the backdrop. He recounts the Residency defense, Henry Lawrence’s death, and the women’s endurance, alongside relief by Havelock and Outram, highlighting courage and faith amid famine, disease, and bombardment. Cadwallader’s bank embezzlement case and Champlin University elopement noted.
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Dnooxrys
Talmage
Lucknow
India
Havelock and
Outramen
Residency
Fayrer
Queen Victoria
Henry Lawrence
Dr. Fayrer
Sir Henry Lawrence
Indian Service
For Engl
Bor
Henry
Sir Henry
Daniel
England
Bob the Nail
Bob
Cawnpore
Havelock
Outram
Calcutta
Europe
Campfire Confusion at Cheraw and Mule Brigade Stampede
Civil War narrative recounts Fifteenth Corps marching toward Bentonville Cheraw Pedee crossing delays from a destroyed bridge and hidden gunpowder stores triggering a deadly explosion. Accounts describe the mule brigade sprinting past Lookout Mountain misread by rebels, and anecdotes about Col Thomas Vermont frontline leadership.
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Fifteenth Corps
Bentonville
N. C
Cheraw
Pedee River
C. BR. Woods
76Th Ohio
Ind
Q.M. Serg
Marvin Trott
James O'Connor
National Tribune
Trott
J. A. Logan
R. Woods
William B. Woods
Resaca
Kenesaw Mountain
Hooker
Lookout Mountain
Manifesto Grants Wide Amnesties Across Empire
A Russian manifesto announces broad pardons and reductions. It remits crown debts, cancels taxes and fines, shortens sentences, and waives prosecutions for treason tied to long-hidden offenses. It grants amnesty to Polish rebels of 1863 and allows residence anywhere in Russia. Only serf liberation is withheld.
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Prrensnvna
Russia
Brazil Eyes Arbitration and Threats of War Reach Rio
Reports from Rio de Janeiro indicate Italy plans a fleet against Brazil over unanswered arbitration. Brazil may seek U S mediation as part of a volatile mix including 8000 troops under Admiral DaGama and fears of a monarchist uprising while President Moraer prepares a new proposition.
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Rio
Janeiro
Italy
Brazil
Moraer
United States
DaGama
Mount Tacoma Eruption Rumor and New Peak Emerges
San Francisco reports a dramatic change on Mount Tacoma Ranier with the cone collapsed and a sharp peak rising east of the crater while steam vents and rockfalls spurred great excitement Seattle observers a nine day’s march away watch a new summit form in the Cascades as minor earthquakes rattle Tacoma with distant explosions and a flame in the east clear but unconfirmed signs of upheaval.
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San Franciaco
Et Sound
Tacoma
Ranier
Cascades
Seattle
Peace talks mediation offered between China and Japan
An authorization is sent to Minister Dun in Tokyo and Denby in Pekin to mediate peace talks in line with Japan’s reply to the U.S. note. China offers to pay war expenses and 100 million taels indemnity. Japan estimates 150 million taels in costs and a 109 million tael indemnity. Port Arthur’s fall is delayed by minefields around the area slowing artillery progress.
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Dun
Tokio
Denby
Pekin
China
Japan
Port Arthur
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Charles Hart
Galtt
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Clarence Urindle
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Ashby Good
Hart
van Armenia
Porte
Armenian National Assembly
Carlisle
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United Sates Trust Co
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