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

The wars & local soldiers, 1871

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Civil War in France

Goulburn Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 6 June 1871 · page 3

When the mail left, on 21st April, severe fighting and cannonading were incessant around Paris. The Commune was making extensive preparations for resistance…

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Arrival of the English Mail. Via Suez. Total Wreck of the Queen of the Thames. Civil War Still Raging in Paris. Eight Hours Armistice Granted to the Rebels. Bishop Dollinger Excommunicated. Wool Sales Improving

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 6 June 1871 · page 2

THE branch steamer, Rangatira, reached Glenelg on Sunday evening, with the South Australian portion of the English mails. The P. and O. Co.'s R. M. steamer, Rangoon,…

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Civil War in France

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 7 June 1871 · page 2

When the mail left, on 21st April, severe fighting and cannonading were incessant around Paris. The commune was making extensive preparations for resistance…

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Report of the Communist Minister of War. Paris, April 14, noon

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 10 June 1871 · page 3

General Cluseret has addressed the following report to the commune, dated yesterday, the 13th instant:— "I have just returned from inspecting the…

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Dreadful War.—twenty Thousand Natives Killed

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 21 June 1871 · page 3

INTELLIGENCE of a reliable nature has been received at Cape Coast Coast to the effect that the Ashantee army that invaded the eastern parts of the protectorate had been entirely destroyed and its generals…

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West Coast of Africa. Dreadful War. —Twenty Thousand Natives Killed

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 24 June 1871 · page 3

INTELLIGENCE of a reliable nature has been received at Cape Coast Castle to the effect that the Ashantee army that invaded the eastern parts of the protectorate had been…

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Mimic Prussian War

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 8 July 1871 · page 2

Now, consider how the Prussians act. Year by year, when the crops are gathered in, and comparatively little damage can be done to the fields by…

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The Civil War in Parts. Fighting in the Streets

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 11 July 1871 · page 4

DESCRIBING the fighting, one of the Times correspondents remarks that all that one could see was smoke and exploding shells:-- It If the public imagine that bodies of men are…

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Welcome Home

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 9 August 1871 · page 4

HOME again like a bird on the wing, Back to our sunny clime; Homo while thy life in yet in spring, And the joys of that happy time…

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Later European and American News. Arrival of the Wonga Wonga. Terrible Riot at New York on the 12th July. One Hundred Killed and Three Hundred Wounded. [Australian Associated Press Telegram.]

The Yass Courier · Friday 25 August 1871 · page 2

THE Wonga Wonga, with the European and American mails, arrived to-day (Thursday). The European news is to the 18th July. The wool sales were progressing favourably…

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[?]Ted States. [?]Orange and Catholic Riots. [?]Rsons Killed and Wounded

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 2 September 1871 · page 4

[?]pal item of news from the Eastern [?] the great riot that occurred in the [?] of New York, on the 12th July. It [?] known for several days previous…

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Scenes From the Late War in New ZEALAND.—No. 1. How I Was Taken Prisoner

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 9 September 1871 · page 2

WAR is a necessary evil, yet it is a most horrible monster—horrible and revolting in its general form; and I believe there is nothing more unnaturally wicked or more…

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Scenes From the Late War in New ZEALAND.—No. Ii. How I Escaped From the Maories

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 16 September 1871 · page 8

AWAKING at length from a sort of painful dream, my whole senses benumbed and confused, I sat up and gazed around. For a moment I could not make out the objects…

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Scenes From the Late War in New ZEALAND.—No. Iii. the Wedding at Hicks' Farm

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 30 September 1871 · page 8

Six months had passed, and the rebellion had been completely crushed in the Waikato. Peruka, To Mange, Mere-Mere, Rangario, Puketima, and lastly Rangahutia had been…

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Scenes From the Late War in New ZEALAND.—No. Iv. How the Wedding Ended

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 7 October 1871 · page 8

A BLAZE of lights stream from the large doorway of the temporary ball-room at Hicks' farm, casting a ruddy glow on the orchards trees waving to and fro in the wind…

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Scenes From the Late War in New ZEALAND.—No. V. Roger Bently's Story

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 4 November 1871 · page 8

SOME great writer has said that "the course of true love never did run smooth." The man who wrote the above truism know a thing or two of human nature and the ills…

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Scenes From the Late War in New ZEALAND.—No. Vi. Huntley's Dog, Wallace

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 11 November 1871 · page 8

"ARRAH ! waken up out o' this, Master Harry, or by the mortail the army al be off widout ye. Come, stir yerself, achora. Here's the gineral asking if you wor come…

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Scenes From the Late War in NEWZEALAND.—No.VII. REWI

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 18 November 1871 · page 8

FOR fully an hour after the departure of the half-caste boy, I attempted to restore animation to the form of the wounded officer; but with small success. Once or twice…

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French Losses in the War

The Yass Courier · Friday 8 December 1871 · page 4

The statement of the losses sustained by the French army during the late campaign has just been drawn up; the total is perfectly appalling. Eighty-nine thousand-- officers,…

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Select Poetry. Love and War

The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 16 December 1871 · page 4

HE crossed the mountain paths alone, Quick-[?]ant as the tender morn ; He [?]ed me by the [?] Where all our [?] were sworn…

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