Word: franco-prussian
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...Incident of the Franco-Prussian War" is the story of three French soldiers who escaped from the fortress of Konigstein. The account of their escape is very interesting...
...Gray, who followed for the affirmative, maintained that the world has outgrown large armies. Large armies are a direct encouragement to needless and exhausting wars. This was the case in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. We should live up to the high standard which William Penn reached when he made his great peace with the Indians, an event which Charles Sumner declared to be "the proudest sight which American history records...
...finds merely a repetition of the Franco-Prussian war with the circumstances and methods of battle slightly changed. Paris suffers a second capitulation...
...oldest of Boston's art stores, is that of Williams & Everett; here can be seen three pictures owned by a Boston gentleman, who is said to have paid $25.000 for them. The largest one is a characteristic sketch by Detaille, a group of soldiers, a scene in the late Franco-Prussian war. The first feature that one remarks in the picture is the beautiful play of light. Although the coloring does not affect one favorably, yet the fine draughting and grouping of the figures show the masterhand of the man, who, with De Neuville, leads this branch of the French...