Word: conquests
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...river was now opened up, as far as Vicksburg, and here the river fleet from above joined Farragut, and the only thing that was needed for the capture of Vicksburg and the conquest of the Mississippi, once for all, was a strong land force. But Halleck was in command and here, as always, he was timid, irresolute. In the west was Vicksburg; in eastern Tennessee was Chattanooga. A great general with Halleck's advantages would have taken both; any prompt courageous man would have taken one; but Halleck straddled between the two and lost both. As a result...
Professor Sheldon delivered the fourth of the series of lectures under the auspices of the Cercle Francais last evening in the Fogg Art Museum. His subject was "The French language at the time of the Norman Conquest." He said that by this he meant the spoken language. The written language in those days was an attempt to represent to the eye the spoken language...
...trace the history of the English language back to the Anglo-Saxon tongue, we pass over a period when French words came in great quantities, the time of the Norman Conquest. This foreign tongue brought with it many alterations to the native tongue. Just so the Latin language was brought into the territory we now call France and in the nothern part, after successive alterations that affected the pronunciation, inflections and syntax, and after borrowing from the speech of the Germanic Franks, has become the French language. We sometimes speak of AngloSaxon as old English; with the same right...
...series given under the auspices of the Department of French and the Cercle Francais will be given by Professor Sheldon in the lecture hall of the Fogg Art Museum this evening at 7: 45. The subject will be the "The French Language at the Time of the Norman Conquest." The lecture will be open to the public...
Cercle Francais. The French Language at the time of the Norman Conquest. Professor Sheldon. Fogg Art Museum...