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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1882

4 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers

War in Egypt

The Australian, Windsor, Richmond, and Hawkesbury Advertiser · Saturday 9 September 1882 · page 3

ARABI appears to be hesitating as to whether he shall prolong the war or act upon the old maxim about discretion being the better part of valour. He is reported to have opened up…

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War in Egypt

The Australian, Windsor, Richmond, and Hawkesbury Advertiser · Saturday 16 September 1882 · page 3

SIR[?]GARNET WOLSELEY seems now to have got his transport service into efficient working order, and it is expected that a forward movement of the first division of the British…

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War in Egypt

The Australian, Windsor, Richmond, and Hawkesbury Advertiser · Saturday 23 September 1882 · page 3

THE attack on Arabi's position was led by the second brigade of the first division under Major-General G. Graham, supported by the Guards, under the command of his Royal…

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A Woman Soldier

The Australian, Windsor, Richmond, and Hawkesbury Advertiser · Saturday 21 October 1882 · page 3

MRS. ELIZABETH HATZLEH, who died in this city, on the 1st of May (says the Philadelphia Ledger), was a veterun of the FrancoRussian war of 1812. She was born in…

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