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

The wars & local soldiers, 1856

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War Movements in Asia

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 5 January 1856 · page 3

Letters from Kars, to the 25th August, describe the thorough devastation of the surrounding district by the Russians. The provisions of the garrison…

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The War in Asia

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 5 January 1856 · page 6

Despatches received from Vienna state that Kars is greatly straitened for provisions. The garrison is eating horse-flesh. The following private telegraphic despatches…

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Still Later News. Progress of the War. News to the 16Th of October

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 5 January 1856 · page 3

THE warlike excitement is becoming of deeper intensity. The conflict thickens, and other nations are evidently about to come forward on the bloody panorama…

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Progress of the War. Eleven Days' Later News

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 12 January 1856 · page 4

ON the 4th of the prevent month, the fine ship Monica, 1546 tons, reached Melbourne, having quitted Liverpool on the 20th of October, and bringing…

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Later News of the War

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 19 January 1856 · page 4

THE ship Clasmerden, 1588 tons, from London, has arrived at Melbourne, bringing intelligence from the war fields of Europe up to the 28th of October,…

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Progress of the War

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 9 February 1856 · page 4

THE Electra from Liverpool arrived at Melbourne on the 31st of lust month, being the bearer of intelligence from England up to the 15th of November,…

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The War in Asia

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 9 February 1856 · page 4

Omar Pacha has beaten the Russians in a great battle which took place on the 5th November, at the passage of the Ingour. The battle lasted five hours, and the enemy suffered…

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Gross Outrage Upon a Soldier

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 16 February 1856 · page 2

A CORRESPONDENT of the Daily News, at Heligoland, writing on the 25th, says— Scarcely had the Daily News,…

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The War in Asia

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 23 February 1856 · page 2

THE Moniteur publishes the following, dated Constantinople, November 12:— "According to the last accounts, Omar Pacha was expecting a battle…

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English News to the 24Th of November. Progress of the War

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 23 February 1856 · page 2

By the arrival of the Catteaue Wattel, which quitted London on the 26th of November, we have received five days later news than that hitherto published…

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Incidents of the War

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 1 March 1856 · page 2

EFFECTS OF THE WAR ON RUSSIA.—The accounts that are received of the working of the war on the feelings of the bulk of the Russian population are…

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The War and the Winter

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 1 March 1856 · page 2

THE following article is from the Tipperary Leader. We merely republish the article to demonstrate the animus which prevails in some of the Irish…

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Turkish War Finance

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 8 March 1856 · page 3

Much is said of the peculations in the Turkish administration. Doubtless it has committed abuses, but people will be…

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The War in Asia

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 8 March 1856 · page 2

WHILE waiting for the supplementary details which complete for us the picture of the late battle on the banks of the Ingour (nature having…

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Energetic War Preparations in Russia

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 8 March 1856 · page 4

A corps of 10,000 men occupies Kaffa; 10,000 more have just arrived at Coula; and there are about 20,00 Russians on the Cireassian coast…

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Loss of a Sardinian War Steamer

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 8 March 1856 · page 4

A Sardinian war steamer, which was bringing to Constantinople a great number of sick from the ambulance at Balaclava, has foundered, and all on board perished…

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Sir Robt. Peel on the War

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 15 March 1856 · page 2

A FEW evenings since Sir Robert Peel delivered a lecture at the Leamington Athenæum. The subject was "An evening with the poets, with recitals of…

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The Prudence and Propriety of the War

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 15 March 1856 · page 3

Some of the speeches of English representatives at meetings with their constituents, (says the Sydney Empire) are highly instructive commentaries on…

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British Extracts. the War in the Crimea. Permission Given to Gortschakoff to Evacuate the Crimea

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 29 March 1856 · page 2

G[?]NERAL PRINCE GORTSHAROFF has received, through General Stackelberg, full powers from the Emperor to defend or abandon the Crimea, according to…

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A Clergyman Turned Soldier

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 29 March 1856 · page 3

SOME twenty years ago a young man, whom I shall name "Jamie," was pastor of a large congregation of the Established Church of Scotland. At…

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