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

The wars & local soldiers, 1891

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The Tallest Soldier in Europe

Goulburn Herald · Monday 12 January 1891 · page 4

PRUSSIA has produced a good many great soldiers in the course of the present century, and the greatest of them all, as we learn from our Berlin…

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The Sioux War. LONDON, Jan. 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 January 1891 · page 2

The Sioux Indians who have given in their submission to the United States troops refuse to surrender their arms. It is feared that an attempt to disarm them will lead to bloodshed…

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The Tug of War

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 29 January 1891 · page 2

IS one last issue we mentioned that Mr. T. F. Meyer, captain of one of the Australian teams which divided the honours of the tug of war announced from the dress circle at the concert…

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The Indian War in America. LONDON, Feb. 13

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 February 1891 · page 4

A deputation of Sioux Indians has waited on President Harrison with regard to the causes and character of the late hostilities. They assured the President that the troops shot…

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Soldiers in Embryo

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 4

EXTREMES often meeet under the one roof. It was so last night at the Y.M.CA. Down below a singing evangelist was teaching a mixed audience how to pray; upstsirs a representative…

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The Civil War in Chill. LONDON, March 23

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 March 1891 · page 4

Horrible details are to band of the fighting in Valparaiso between the insurgants and the adherents of President Balmaceda. Two hundreds insurgents tied together wore shot…

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Cable News. The Sugar War Ended—Expected Rise in Price. LONDON, March 31

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 2 April 1891 · page 2

Spreckels's war against the Sugar Trust in the United States has ended, and it is expected that higher prices will rule…

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The Civil War in Chili. LONDON, April 6

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 April 1891 · page 4

The German Admiralty has ordered its entire squadron in the Pacific to proceed to Chilian waters, to protect the interests of German shipping, threatened by the incident of the…

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The Civil War in Chili. LONDON, April 15

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 18 April 1891 · page 6

The barque Aino, bound from Newcastle to Valparaiso, has been run ashore on the Chilian coast by order of the Government of President Balmaceda, with a view of preventing her…

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The Civil War in Chili. LONDON, April 30

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 2 May 1891 · page 3

The latest news receives regarding the civil war now raging in Chili is to the effect that the insurgents, who were recently reported to be marching on the town of Copiapo, the centre of the…

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The Civil War in Chili. LONDON, May 6

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 3

The United States authorities have made a seizure at Ban Diego, in California, of the steamer Etata, belonging to the rebel party in Chili, which was loading arms at that place…

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The Civil War in Chili. LONDON, May 8

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 9 May 1891 · page 4

The Chilian rebel steamer Etata, which was seized at San Diego, a Californian port, by order of the United States Government, while loading arms and munitions of war, has escaped…

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The Civil War in Chili. LONDON, May 8

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 May 1891 · page 4

The Marshal of the county of San Diego, in the State of California, who, having taking possession of the Chilian rebel steamer The Etata at that port, for a breach of neutrality in loading…

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The Chilian Civil War. LONDON, May 12

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 14 May 1891 · page 2

There is much excitement in the United States, arising out of the affair at San Diego and the seizure of the Marshal of that country aboard the Chilian rebel steamer Etats. The…

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The Civil War in Chili. LONDON, May 27

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 30 May 1891 · page 3

The town of Taltal, in Chili, which was recently occupied by the Presidential troops after an engagement, has been re-captured from the victors by the Congressionalists…

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Cable News. The Civil War in Chili. LONDON, May 30

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 June 1891 · page 4

It is reported that the Chilian steamer Etata, which has gained much notoriety of late through has having committed n breath of the neutrality law between Chili and the United States by…

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The Civil War in Chili. LONDON, June 1

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 June 1891 · page 4

The Government of the Republic of Bolivis, which adjoins Chilli on the east, has recognised the Congressionalists in Chilli as belligerents, and offers to assist them on condition that the…

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The War in Chili. the Destruction of Iquique Described

Goulburn Herald · Friday 5 June 1891 · page 3

THE French four-masted barque Cape Horn recently arrived from Iquiqui at Newcastle to load Wallsend coal for Valparaiso. The captain gives a…

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The Civil War in Chili. LONDON, June 4

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 June 1891 · page 6

The Chilian rebel cruiser Magellanes gallantly fought four of the Government warships, viz., the Almirantes Lynch, Condell, Sargeanto, and Aldena…

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The Civil War in Chili. LONDON, June 6

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 June 1891 · page 4

The insurgent vessel, Magellanes, which took part in a naval engagement off Chavaral Harbour, on the Chilian coast, and compelled four vessels supporting the causes of President…

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