He also covered the Second French intervention in Mexico in 1864–65, writing "Across Mexico in 1864-5", and represented the paper in Rome from 1866–1867. He became an ardent partisan of the Italian Revolutionary movement fighting with Garibaldi from whom he received personal thanks. He was dispatched to Sedan during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, where he was the chief manager of the French Peasant Relief Fund while based in France for which he was created Chevalier of .