Identifier: magazineofamericv18stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ers of service from Sir Charles Wood, First Lord of theAdmiralty. The Chevalier Pappallardo, American vice-consul at Ports-mouth, came also in the yacht, bearing a hearty welcome from the muni-cipal authorities of Portsmouth, and an invitation from the corporation toCommander Hartstene and the officers of the Resolute, to partake of amunicipal banquet on Thursday, or the first convenient day. Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, who, during the temporary absence ofAdmiral Sir George Seymour, had become commanding officer of thestation, now called with official and personal assurances of welcome andproffers of every possible service, by express instructions from the LordsCommissioners of the Admiralty, and with the information that a bounti- PRESENTATION OF THE ARCTIC SHIP RESOLUTE I 09 ful supply of every sort of fresh provision had been ordered on board theResolute; that a hotel had been opened at Southsea, by order of HerMajesty the Queen, for the entertainment of the commander and officers
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(From a miniatzire Portrait in possession 0/ Dr. Otis of the Resolute, during their stay in England. Also a carte blanche on therailroads to London. All which attentions were courteously acknowl-edged and responded to by Commander Hartstene. On the succeedingday, as the Resolute had reached her final anchorage at Portsmouth, she 110 PRESENTATION OF THE ARCTIC SHIP RESOLUTE was greeted by cheers upon cheers from crowds of assembled citizens ; anda royal salute of twenty-one guns was fired from the flag-ship Victory.This salute was followed by a similar one from the fortifications of Ports-mouth, and still a third, of twenty-one guns, from Her Majestys frigate theShannon, anchored at Spithead. The question of etiquette regarding thesalute which should be given to the Resolute had been settled by her Maj-esty the Queen, who ordered that the Resolute be received with all thehonors accorded to crowned heads ; thus relieving the authorities from anecessity of infringing upon long-establishe

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