Word: franco
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yesterday afternoon, Professor Cohn gave as a closing lecture in French 11 an informal account of a portion of his experiences during the Franco-Prussian war, 1870, when, as a member of the Garde Mobile he assisted in the defence of Paris. In the early part of the war, under the government of Napoleon III, all military operations were marked by an incredible amount of carelessness and ignorance among those in authority. Army officers were appointed who knew nothing of military operations, and were far surpassed in knowledge, capacity, and even intelligence by many of the privates; the movement...
...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...
...following is a brief description of the scheme: A general division into Foreign news and American news; the foreign news to be subdivided into political, economic, social, etc., as for example, the Congo Conference, the Soudan Question, the Franco-Chinese War, Dynamitism, Nihifists, Socialists, and Anarchists, etc.; American news to be subdivided in the same way, for example: The Nicaragua Treaty, Reciprocity Treaties, the Negro Question (including the Negro Scare following the last election), the Silver Question, Strikes, Trades-unions, Monopolies, Civil Service Reform...