The Schleswig-Holstein Difficulty: entry of the Federal troops into Altona through the Nobis Thor, 1864. 'On the 24th December the Saxons entered, with their band playing "Schleswig- Holstein, Sea-surrounded," through the Nobis Thor to the were at once received with great demonstrations of welcome. All the members of the different , the new Riflemen's Club, the Turners, the Brethren-at-Arms [etc] - turned out in great glee. Duke Frederick was proclaimed at noon in the presence of the entire population, as well as half that of Hamburg. A great change w
The Schleswig-Holstein Difficulty: entry of the Federal troops into Altona through the Nobis Thor, 1864. 'On the 24th December the Saxons entered, with their band playing "Schleswig- Holstein, Sea-surrounded," through the Nobis Thor to the were at once received with great demonstrations of welcome. All the members of the different , the new Riflemen's Club, the Turners, the Brethren-at-Arms [etc] - turned out in great glee. Duke Frederick was proclaimed at noon in the presence of the entire population, as well as half that of Hamburg. A great change was effected in the appearance of the town after the departure of the Danes in the morning, as many of the houses were adorned with German and Schleswig-Holstein in the streets the people were moving about in a state of great from the duchies is unanimous in describing the [federal] execution as having taken place without any disturbance of public order. An hour before the federal troops arrived at the different towns the Danish forces marched out; and, except for the differences of the uniforms, one would imagine that regiments were being relieved in the ordinary course of military duty.' From "Illustrated London News", 1864.
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