In the following pages the various sections of the British Empire outside Gt. Britain and Northern Ireland are arranged in alphabetical order under the divisions of the world to which they belong :—1. Europe; 2. Asia; 3. Africa; 4. America; 5. Australas
In the summer of 1990 the deutschmark was made the official currency of East Germany and a full “monetary, economic, and social union” between the two states came into being. West German laws were gradually introduced in East Germany, and in August the East German parliament made a formal...
Like Ireland, rural Germany in the 1840s was suddenly hit by famine precipitated by the potato blight. Because the 1848 revolutions in Europe failed to bring democracy to Germany, several thousand fugitives left for America in addition to the nearly 750,000 other Germans who immigrated to ...
they were fighting for Ireland as much as they were fighting for the Union. Some too believed that the war would be a training ground for Irishmen who would someday return home to drive the English from their homeland. Thomas Meagher the commander of the...