Identifier: from1800to1900wo00morr (find matches)
Title: From 1800 to 1900. The wonderful story of the century; its progress and achievements ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Morris, Charles, 1833-1922
Subjects: Nineteenth century
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., A.B. Kuhlman Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ledged to a London editor that he was the author of the bor-dereau, and it was proved that the handwriting was identical with his andthe paper on which it was written a peculiar kind which he had used in1894. The papers in the secret dossier were also alleged to be a mass offorgeries. The great publicity of this case, in which the whole world had takeninterest,—the action of the French courts being universally condemned,—andthe development of the facts just mentioned, at length goaded the officialsof the French government to action. President Faure had the case con-sidered by the cabinet, and finally forced a revision. In consequence thecabinet resigned and a new one was chosen. As a result the case wasbrought before the Court of Cassation, the final court of appeal, which,after full consideration, ordered a new trial of the condemned officer. Captain Dreyfus was accordingly brought from Devils Island, and onJuly I, 1899, reached the city of Rennes, where the new court-martial was
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THE BOMBARDMENT OF ALEXANDRIA The Egyptian patriots of 1882, who rushed to arms at the call of Arabi Pasha for the expulsion of the hated British from their country made their most vigorous stand behind the strong fortifications of Alexandra, where they fought with much le-olution. But the cannon of the British fleet proved too heavy for t^ieir powers of defence, and the city fell into the hands of the invaders. It was plundered and partly burneI by the Egyptians in their etreat.

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