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

The wars & local soldiers, 1871

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The Riderless War-horses

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 7 January 1871 · page 2

IN almost the last letter written by Lieutenant-Colonel Pemberton from the seat of war before his untimely death, there was a passage which strikes us as describing one…

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News by Telegraph. Sydney, Monday, 9 p.m. War Threatened with America

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 10 January 1871 · page 2

The Government have received an English telegram, dated the 1st December, announcing complications with America on the Alabama claims…

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The War

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Thursday 19 January 1871 · page 2

There was fighting to the north of the Loire and around Paris, from the 28th November to the 7th December. General Ducrot made a sortie with 150,000 men,…

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The War

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 21 January 1871 · page 2

There was fighting to the north of the Loire and around Paris from the 28th November to the 7th December. General Ducrot made a scrtie with 150,000…

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Count Bismarck on the Future Horrors of the War. (Standard, Oct. 13 )

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 21 January 1871 · page 4

WHATEVER we may think of the spirit of the memorandum in which the Prussian Government sets forth the consequences to France and to Frenchmen of a continuance…

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The English Mail. the War: the Battles on the Loire

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 24 January 1871 · page 4

IT now seems certain that the battles in which the French wore decidedly victorious, and which resulted in the evacuation of Orleans by General Von der Tann, are Unlikely to have…

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The War Between France and Germany. Principal Events During November

The Yass Courier · Friday 27 January 1871 · page 4

NOVEMBER 1.--The Germans besieging Paris attack Le Bourget, which the French had captured on the 18th of October, and drive out the Gardes Mobiles who held this important village…

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Mr. Carlyle on the War. To the Editor of the Times

The Yass Courier · Friday 27 January 1871 · page 4

SIR,--It is probably an amiable trait of human nature, this cheap pity and newspaper lamentation over fallen and afflicted Franco; but it seems to me a very idle, dangerous, and…

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The French Soldiers at Metz

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 28 January 1871 · page 4

Herr Wachenhusen writes from Mctz to the Cologne Gazette :—“ The inhabitants, even the most patriotic, state that the soldiers, during the last four weeks before the…

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The War. (From the Home News, Dec, 2nd.)

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 4 February 1871 · page 4

Further details rench us from the Prussian headquarters of the vigorous sorties made by the Paris garrison, and of the attempt made by the army of the Loire to…

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War Items. Unsuccessful Attempt of English Residents to Leave Parts

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 11 February 1871 · page 4

A LETTER from Paris dated Oct. 27, says :— “ At the request [?]f their respective Governments all the English, Americans, and Russians who wish to leave Paris have obtained…

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War News to December 30

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 18 February 1871 · page 3

A great sortie was made from Paris early in December, mainly towards the south-east and south, in the direction of Fontainebleau road and Champigny, involving battles the most sanguinary, the French…

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The War in the Music Halls

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 18 February 1871 · page 2

As a rule we have very little display of public feeling here in relation to the war; but this comparatively quiet state of affairs does not seem destined to last much longer…

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France and the War

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 22 February 1871 · page 2

The following telegraphic intelligence, from 29th December to 13th January, will be found to contain news which has not hitherto reached Sydney, and further details of that which has:…

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The War

The Yass Courier · Friday 24 February 1871 · page 4

FROM the journals received by the mail to the 31st December, we extract the following war news. They are principally the descriptions given by the correspondents of the Times and…

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The War

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 25 February 1871 · page 7

From the journals received by the mail to the 31st December, we extract the following war news. They are principally the descriptions given by the correspondents of the…

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A Scene From the Present War

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 25 February 1871 · page 2

ONWARD gallantly they go, A noble and a warlike show ; Plume and pinion gaily dancing, The bright sun on each helmet glancing…

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The War. the Engagements on the Loire

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 28 February 1871 · page 4

During the whole of December 1st the Prussians, made no attempt, to dislodge the French army from the positions they had captured on the previous day on the left, bank of…

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The War. the Sortie on the 21st DECEMBER

The Yass Courier · Friday 3 March 1871 · page 4

THE Times' correspondent with the 12th Royal Saxon army corps at Le Vert Galant, on the north of Paris, under date of the 22nd, thus describes the sortie of the 21st December:…

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War Between France and Prussia. Record of Events. (From the Home News.)

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 4 March 1871 · page 4

We resume our narrative of the course of events at the seat of war. On the 7th and 8th Dec. the Grand Duke had several severe engagements before…

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