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

The wars & local soldiers, 1856

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The War

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 5 April 1856 · page 2

THIS is indeed one of the grand old wars. Its theatre is the very region where despotism and liberty, the East and the West, barbarism and…

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British Extracts. Russia's View of the War

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 5 April 1856 · page 2

AMERICA is proud of originality; her citizens delight in novelty, have a natural tendency to paradox, and find their excitement in surprise. They have taken…

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The War

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

WE have been a long while waiting with anxiety for the arrival of the overdue mail from England but, as will appear in another column, so bad are the mail…

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The War in Asia—capitulation of Kars

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 12 April 1856 · page 3

We regret to state that authentic intelligence has been received, which leaves no doubt as to the fate of Kars. Ismail Pacha (General Komety), with…

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Aspect of the War

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 19 April 1856 · page 3

THE following articles from the Dublin Nation,—an anti-English paper, will afford a tolerably correct idea of the opinions held, and the hopes entertained…

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The French Imperial Guard. Its Return From the War

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 19 April 1856 · page 2

There is no section of the armies of France more popular than the Imperial Guard. From the palace to the cottage, from the most carefully…

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The Crisis of War or Peace

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 10 May 1856 · page 4

WE have entered upon storm times The Anglo-Saxon star falls auto its orbit. But the meteor flag still waves untarnished and undishono[?]red. It…

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The Question of Peace or War. Meeting in Westminster

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 10 May 1856 · page 3

A public meeting of the inhabitants of Westminster was held on Wednesday at St. Martin's-hall, Long-acre, "to protest against the conclusion of any…

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The Council of War

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 17 May 1856 · page 3

Scene: The Tuilleries. Present: the Emperor, the Duke of Cambridge, Marshal Pelissier, General Della Marmora, General Canrobert, Sir Edmund Lyons,…

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Russian Opinion of the War

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 17 May 1856 · page 2

"The loss of Moscow is not the loss of Russia." Kutusoff. THE Northern Bee, a Russian journal, in an able and evidently fairly written…

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Sympathy of the Empress of Russia with the Soldiers

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 17 May 1856 · page 3

THE Journal de St. Petersburg, of the 3rd January, published the following letter from the Empress Marie Alexandrovna to Count Michel Wielhorski:…

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Germany and the War. ("Causlic," in the Weekly Dispatch.)

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 24 May 1856 · page 2

I VERY much question whether the people of this nation have every realised to themselves the true and full effect of the propositions made by the late…

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Preparations for War

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 31 May 1856 · page 2

In the House of Representatives on February, 28th, a resolution was adopted on the motion, of Mr. Florence, instructing the Committee on Naval…

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War and Peace

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 7 June 1856 · page 4

THE March mail-ship, the Champion of the Seas, has arrived, bringing papers up to as late a date as the 9th of March. There are wars and…

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The Moral and Material Influences of War

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 7 June 1856 · page 2

IN war moral influences are even more important than material. A beaten army, though its numbers may only have been diminished by a fifteenth or twentieth…

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War Economy. ("Caustic," in the Weekly Dipatch.)

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 7 June 1856 · page 2

This justly celebrated writer says:—At the close of the year we find that nearly four millions must be raised on deficiency bills to meet the excess of…

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The Conferences.—likelihood of the Continuation of the War

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 7 June 1856 · page 2

LORD CLARENDON had arrived in Paris to attend the approaching Conference. Baron Orloff, the Russian plenipotentiary, was at Berlin on the 14 th, and had…

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British & Foreign Extracts. the War with Russia. News to the 22Nd February

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 7 June 1856 · page 2

Tim Spray of the Ocean, royal mail ship, which left Liverpool on the 22nd of February, arrived at Melbourne on the 24th ult., after a long passage of…

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The War and Its Costs; Or, Who Is to Pay the Reckoning?

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 14 June 1856 · page 4

No portion of the public press was more averse than this journal from entering into the present war against Russia; no portion of the press more…

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Continued Preparations for War

The Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser · Saturday 21 June 1856 · page 4

THE preparations for war continue at Woolwich undiminished. Last week so great was the number of Artillery which started thence for the Crimes, that twelve special trains,…

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