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Hunter Valley · The wars & local soldiers
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No additional intelligence has yet been received from the seat of war to relieve the anxiety or satisfy the impatience with which the progress of every successive day is watched and discussed, not only in this country,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By the City of Sydney, we have English dates two days later. There is really nothing of immediate interest from the seat of war. Preparations were going on for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →We give the following highly interesting details from a French letter dated Constantinople, September 30th:- The exact number of sick and wounded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is a curious coincidence that the late Sir Neil Douglas led the 79th regiment at Waterloo, and the same regiment was led by his son in storming the heights of Alma, their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The news from Europe contained in the mail brought by the clipper ship James Baines, to Melbourne, in the unprecedented short space of 64 days,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN—Many, in fact most people, in considering the war now going on in the East, only look at its present details, in the shape of bloody struggles, human slaughter,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Parliament met on Tuesday; called together at this unusual period of the year, as the Queen's speech stated, in order that the crown might take such measures as would enable it to prosecute the great war…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An officer of the 77th Regiment, who commanded one of the outlying pickets on the memorable 5th of November, describes his adventures after he and his men had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The public, well-informed or otherwise, appears to be settling down into two tolerably safe conclusions— that the war will continue, and that its expenses will not be entirely met out of current taxation. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DESPATCH FROM LORD RAGLAN.—War Department, January 26. His Grace the Duke of Newcastle has this day received a despatch, of which the following is a copy,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →By the Wonga Wonga (s.) we have Melbourne papers to the 24th instant, from which we extract the following particulars:…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Advices of the 16th from the Crimea are as follows: The ground before Sebastopol is covered with deep [?]now. On the morning of the 13th the Russians, after a furious cannonade, assaulted the English and French…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →we have elsewhere given a pretty ample summary of foreign affairs, and of the operations in the Crimea, down to a later date than that borne (January 15th) by Lord…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →By the Egyptus, which left Constantinople on the 22nd, we have advices from the Crimea to the 20th ultimo, at which date the condition of the troops was improving. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Boomerang had not arrived at Melbourne on Saturday, when the City of Sydney left. But we have European intelligence to the 4th of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The French army going to the Rhine in the spring is to be commanded by the Emperor in person, who visits England first. The French army, consisting of 600,000 (?)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following has been received from the camp:- January 28th. Sunday was celebrated by an extremely…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By the Hellespont, we have received three days' later intelligence from England, which reached Melbourne via Hong Kong…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The intelligence from the Crimea is on the whole satisfactory. The troops were comfortable and in high spirits. Sickness was decreasing; fresh reinforcements were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Intelligence from Constantinople, via Trieste, states that General Pelissier had advanced against the heights occupied by the Russians to the rear of Balaklava…
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