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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1855

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English Intelligence. News From the Seat of War

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 12 May 1855 · page 2

THE Boomerang had not arrived at Melbourne on Saturday, when the City of Sydney left. But we have European intelligence to the 4th February, via…

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The British Soldier

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 12 May 1855 · page 4

Of all the topics embraced by the recent speeches, none was expounded with more genuine fervour, or has commanded more universal approval than that drown from the…

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Sick and Wounded Fund. Scutari, Jan. 4, 1855

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 19 May 1855 · page 4

SINCE the date of my last letter about 1000 more sick have been brought down from the Crimea. One transport steamer after another arrives with her sad freight, and anchors in the…

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Official Despatch From Field Marshal Raglan. War Department, March 2

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 26 May 1855 · page 4

Lord Panmure on Thursday received a despatch and its enclosures, of which the following are copies, addressed to the Duke of Newcastle by Lord Raglan…

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Canrobert and His Soldiers

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 26 May 1855 · page 4

It is worth while to note how General Canrobert names the private soldiers in his orders of the day. In an order issued on the 19th ult., the men named…

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Despatch From Lord Raglan. War Department, March 22, 1855

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 30 June 1855 · page 4

Lord Panmure has this day received a despatch and its enclosures, of which the following are copies, addressed to his lordship by Field-Marshal the Lord Raglan, G.C.B.:…

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British Extracts. Progress of the War. Three Days Later News

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 7 July 1855 · page 4

In our last Saturday's paper, we gave a brief summary of the three days later news, up to the 94th of March, which was brought to Sydney by the Varoon,…

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The War in Europe

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 28 July 1855 · page 2

IN another page we have published the most important items of intelligence recently received from England and the Crimea, from which it will be seen…

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Progress of the War

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 28 July 1855 · page 4

The Prince Gortschakoff had modified his former plan of operations. The centre of his army will be at Batschi Serai and Simpheropol, the right wing will lean on Perekop. The…

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War Department, May 14, 12 50 A.m

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 18 August 1855 · page 2

Lord Panmure presents his complaints the editor of the Times, and has great pleasure in transmitting the enclosed intelligence, which has this day reached him:…

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The Attitude of Austria with Respect to the War

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 18 August 1855 · page 2

OUR May mail was exceedingly barren of news of the glorious nature anticipated by those most sanguine of success to the cause of Great Britain and France…

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News from the Crimea. Important From the Seat of War to June 11

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 25 August 1855 · page 1

By the medium of the Victorian electric telegraph we are in receipt of news from the battle-fields of Europe as late as the eleventh of June. The regular…

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The Second Year of War

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 1 September 1855 · page 1

The following cleverly and temperately written article, is from the Spectator, London journal:— Russia has refused the proffered terms of…

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Seven Days Later From the Seat of War

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 1 September 1855 · page 2

To Captain Leask, of the Granite City, which sailed from the Downs on the 4th of June, we are indebted for papers to the 1st of that month…

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Late English News. English Items.—war Notes, &c.—OPINIONS of Russia's Friends and Enemies

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 1 September 1855 · page 1

CONSIDERING the great distance from the scene of the terrible struggle now going on between the Autocrat of the immense Russian Empire, with his…

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The Feelings of America in Relation to the War

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 8 September 1855 · page 4

Unquestionably a powerful feeling prevails in the American mind, favourable to Russia and her cause, in the terrible conflict which threatens to make the continent of Europe one vast field…

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British Extracts. Pictures From the Battle Fields. the Turkish Soldier

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 15 September 1855 · page 1

He is a gross, stolid, smoking, brutal, untaught fellow, in ill-made no-coloured clothes. It is harsh language this, and I am sorry to use it; but there are few…

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English Extracts. Intelligence From the Seat of War

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 29 September 1855 · page 4

The Hellespont steamer reached Port Jackson on the 20th instant, bringing five days Inter news from the battle fields of Europe. We subjoin the following most interesting items…

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The Aspect of the War

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 13 October 1855 · page 2

ALTHOUGH at so vast a distance from the scene of strife, the anxieties of the colonists are doubtless as great as those of the inhabitants of Great Britain and…

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European news. News From the Seat of War Up to the 20Th of July. the War Minutes

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 27 October 1855 · page 1

July 2.—No change has occurred in the general disposition of the troops, nor has any incident of peculiar interest inn the siege operations taken place since…

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