The Annual Register, Volume 117Edmund Burke Rivingtons, 1876 Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. From the 1920s volumes of The Annual Register took the essential shape in which they have continued ever since, opening with the history of Britain, then a section on foreign history covering each country or region in turn. Following these are the chronicle of events, brief retrospectives on the year’s cultural and economic developments, a short selection of documents, and obituaries of eminent persons who died in the year. |
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Page 86
... Marshal MacMahon has had the privilege of giving judgment in favour of Portugal . Good results attended an expedition sent up the Congo river in August to punish some piratical tribes which had been com- mitting outrages upon British ...
... Marshal MacMahon has had the privilege of giving judgment in favour of Portugal . Good results attended an expedition sent up the Congo river in August to punish some piratical tribes which had been com- mitting outrages upon British ...
Page 142
... Marshal MacMahon deemed it wise to take the initiative , and on the 6th of January a Presidential Message was read in the National Assembly to the following effect : - " Gentlemen , - The hour has arrived when you are about to approach ...
... Marshal MacMahon deemed it wise to take the initiative , and on the 6th of January a Presidential Message was read in the National Assembly to the following effect : - " Gentlemen , - The hour has arrived when you are about to approach ...
Page 143
... the country . The conversations I have been able to hold with a large number of members of this Assembly make me hope that a majority will sanction them by their votes . That is my most 1875. ] [ 143 Marshal MacMahon's Message .
... the country . The conversations I have been able to hold with a large number of members of this Assembly make me hope that a majority will sanction them by their votes . That is my most 1875. ] [ 143 Marshal MacMahon's Message .
Page 144
... Marshal MacMahon had shown his colours too clearly . He was so obviously acting as the mouthpiece of the Orleanists that all the other parties had taken alarm and joined in the opposition . In face of such a manifestation of opinion ...
... Marshal MacMahon had shown his colours too clearly . He was so obviously acting as the mouthpiece of the Orleanists that all the other parties had taken alarm and joined in the opposition . In face of such a manifestation of opinion ...
Page 147
... Marshal MacMahon , President of the Republic , continues to exercise the Executive Power with which he is invested by the Law of the 20th of November 1873. Art . 2 .-- It is only in the case of high treason that the Ministers are re ...
... Marshal MacMahon , President of the Republic , continues to exercise the Executive Power with which he is invested by the Law of the 20th of November 1873. Art . 2 .-- It is only in the case of high treason that the Ministers are re ...
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