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

The wars & local soldiers, 1883

12 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers

The Soldier's Watch

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 16 January 1883 · page 4

As I granted my post is the dead of the right, When nature by sleeping no show [?] My best was so fail of and throughts about [?] That I knew [?] were happy and pining for me…

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The Queen and Her Soldiers

Goulburn Herald · Saturday 24 February 1883 · page 2

Hor Majesty the Queen has (says an English Journal) graciously forwarded to the superintendent of nurses at the Royal Victoria…

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"Our Mothers!" (An Incident of the American Civil War)

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 6 March 1883 · page 4

The revelry in camp was high, The tale was told, the song was sung, And through the stillness of the night…

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A New War Ship

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 3 April 1883 · page 4

AT no former period has there been so much activity in the shipbuilding department at Chatham Dockyard at this season of the year as may be now…

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The War Between France and Tonquin. Paris, May 26

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 June 1883 · page 2

Intelligence has been received to-day from Tonquin that Indue, Regent of Anam, having failed to accept the ultimatum recently sent by M. Grevy…

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The British Soldier

The Yass Courier · Friday 1 June 1883 · page 4

AN occurrence which recalls to mind the Birkenhead disaster is thus recorded: -- Of the cool bravery of the British soldier in the hour of the greatest danger…

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Mitigation of the Horrors of War

The Burrowa News · Friday 6 July 1883 · page 2

THERE are two conflicting theories as to the best way of mitigating the horrors of war, and of ultimately rendering the continuance of war impossible. One of these…

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Winning an Old Soldier's Suit

Goulburn Herald · Tuesday 10 July 1883 · page 4

A DISTINGUISHED company of lawyers sat in the supreme court-room recently talking over old times. Among them was Colonel Charles S. Spencer. He was in his usual…

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War Imminent Between China and France. London, Sept. 3

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 September 1883 · page 2

INTELLIGENCE is to hand from the East of an important advance by the Chinese into Anameso territory. 15,000 Chinese Imperial troops, who for some time past have been stationed on the frontier…

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Chapter Lviii. Welcome Home

Southern Argus · Tuesday 27 November 1883 · page 4

Three days after the removal of Bianca to Richmond her brother and our hero drove down to visit her. On being ushered into the drawing-room, the latter remembered…

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An Anecdote of the Crimean War

The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 28 November 1883 · page 4

THE following is an extract from a letter of [?]officer of the Light Division:—[?] By the way, I must give you the history, in a few words of a few hours in [?]…

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Lord Stratford and the Crimean War

Goulburn Herald · Thursday 20 December 1883 · page 4

MR. J. H. Skene's book, With Lord Stratford in the Crimean War (R. Bentley and Son), often as the subject has been written of, is full of valuable and interesting matter,…

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