Category: History - British
THE POSTAGE STAMP WITH THE FLAG.--British Posts in the Crimea--The Abolition of the Capitulations--The British Fleet in the Baltic--Abyssinian Expedition--The First Army Postal Corps-- Egypt--Dongola Expedition--South Africa--The British Army Post in France, 1914--How to Addre...
THE POSTAGE STAMP WITH THE FLAG.--British Posts in the Crimea--The Abolition of the Capitulations--The British Fleet in the Baltic--Abyssinian Expedition--The First Army Postal...
2. CHAPTER II.3. CHAPTER III.4. CHAPTER IV.FRANCE--Napoleon's Minister of Posts--The Second Republic--The Presidency--Empire--French Expeditions to China and Mexico-- Sedan--Metz--Strasburg--The Siege of Paris--Balloon P...
5. CHAPTER V.RUSSIA--War Charity Stamps--Portraits of the Tsars--War Stamps of 1914--Japan--War with China--The Empress Jingo--Triumphal Military and Naval Reviews--Kiao-chow--Belgium--King...
6. CHAPTER VII.7. CHAPTER VIII.8. CHAPTER IX.9. CHAPTER I.THE POSTAGE STAMP WITH THE FLAG.--British Posts in the Crimea--The Abolition of the Capitulations--The British Fleet in the Baltic--Abyssinian Expedition--The First Army Postal...
10. CHAPTER II.The Army Postal Service forms a highly organised branch of the Indian Army organisation. It dates from 1878-1880, when, during the Afghan War, a mail cart route was set up betwe...
11. CHAPTER III.TRANSVAAL. The stamps of the Transvaal illustrate the important changes through which the country has passed during the past forty years. _Fig._ 86 represents an early stamp of...
12. CHAPTER IV.The postal arrangements of France have been deranged oft-times within the past century by war and revolution. It is just a century since the famous episode of the Lavalettes occ...
13. CHAPTER V.RUSSIA--War Charity Stamps--Portraits of the Tsars--War Stamps of 1914--Japan--War with China--The Empress Jingo--Triumphal Military and Naval Reviews--Kiao-chow--Belgium--King...
14. CHAPTER VI.GERMANY. In postal arrangements for armies in the field Germany has shown earlier organised war posts than any of our Allies. As with the regular postal systems on the Continent...
15. CHAPTER VII.UNITED STATES. In December, 1860, South Carolina in convention repealed the act adopting the Constitution of the United States, a move which was promptly followed by other South...
16. CHAPTER VIII.Australasia has not had much occasion for war stamps, but it is worthy of note that at the time of the South African War Victoria issued two postage stamps of patriotic designs,...
17. CHAPTER IXBut the developments are already full of significance, and the stamps of each of the countries at war acquire a new interest in the occasions for their extra-territorial use as...