The Maitland Mercury. Saturday, January 7, 1871. the Barbarism of War
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 7 January 1871 · page 2
THE circular recently issued by Count Bismarck, warning the Courts of Burope of the catastrophe awaiting Paris, in the event of the resistance being prolonged beyond a certain…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 19 January 1871 · page 2
There was fighting to the north of the Loire and around Paris, from the 28th November to the 7th December. General Ducrot made a sortie with 150,000…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 19 January 1871 · page 3
If Count Bismark should not be able to be prisent during the session of the Reichsrath, which is to commence at Berlin on the 24th of November, he will be represented by Herr Von…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 19 January 1871 · page 2
As will be remembered, the Queen of th Thames, a magnificent ship, with steam [?] iliary power, arrived on Saturday at Melbourne, bringing English papers to the 20th November…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Arrival of the Suez Mail, Per "Avoca." Latest News to December 23. No War with Russia. Defeats of the French Armies in France. Paladine Removed From Command. Prussians Threatening Further Cities. French Government Removed to Bordeaux. Dissensions in Paris—provisions Reduced. Attempt to Kill the King of Prussia. Russia Does Not Wish War—conference to Be Held in London —Russia and Turkey Both Unrestricted Number of Vessels. Difficulty Between Prussia and Holland. Wool Active. Grant's Message to Congress. Restoration of the Bonapartes Probable. Fearful Railway Accident. Snider Rifles Issued to Volunteers. Wool Sales Closed at Advance. Baby Farming Disclosures. Mercury Office, Maitland, Tuesday morning, January 17
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 19 January 1871 · page 2
We have received the following important mail telegram from our Sydney correspondent:— The mail steamer has arrived…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 21 January 1871 · page 2
The Californian papers, to December 15, contain a good deal of war news up to that date, sent by telegram to America. Whether it is reliable we cannot say, but we note that one of…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 January 1871 · page 2
CAPITULATION OF LA FERE.—A telegram from Versailles announcces that La Fore has capitulated after two days' bombardment, and that about 2,000 men and 70 guns were captured…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 18 February 1871 · page 2
A great sortie was made from Paris early in December, mainly towards the South-east and South in the direction of Fontainebleau road and Champigny, involving battles the most sanguinary, the…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 23 February 1871 · page 4
Nov. 6.—Capitulation of Fort Mortier, when 220 prisoners and five guns are taken. Nov. 7.—The Government of Tours orders the prefects to arrest Marshal Bazaine or any of…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 23 February 1871 · page 4
A notice has been issued by M. Gambetta to the generals commanding divisions of the French army, in which he orders that in future each of the armies will be provided with a…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 16 March 1871 · page 2
ALTHOUGH peace had not been concluded at the date of our latest news, there is every reason to believe that the war in France had been brought to an end. With the capital and its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Arrival of the Suez Mail. Latest News to February 21. the War Is Over. Peace Restored. Paris Starved Into Capitulation. Prussians to March Through Paris. Armistice, and Terms of Peace Being Arranged. French Assembly Elected, Gambetta Resigned. Theers President of the Republic. England Recognises It. Paris French Army Surrendered. Bourbaki Tried Commit Suicide. Parisian Forts Surrendered. Australian Meat Sent to France. Joint Commission to Settle the American Disputes and Claims. Wool Advancing—sales Opened with Spirit. German Terms—surrender of Forts and Some Country, and Large Indemnity. Proposal to Disestablish Church of England. Fatal Colliery Accidents Colliers' Strike. Maitland Mercury Office, Tuesday morning, March 14
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 16 March 1871 · page 2
We have just received the following important telegram from our Sydney telegraphic agent. Sydney, Tuesday morning…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 18 March 1871 · page 5
The bombardment of Paris commenced in earnest on the 6th January, and from that date the German artillery fired vigorously, but was replied to only feebly on the part of the French…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 21 March 1871 · page 2
The European Mail, of January 27, furnishes a pretty clear and brief summary of the war events of the month of January, leading up to the capitulation of Paris—and, as we know by…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 30 March 1871 · page 4
The hand of the assassin has just robbed Spain of an ennobled soldier, whose biography was fuller of picturesque and romantic in cident than Defoe's Memoirs of a Cavalier, or…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Maitland Mercury. Thursday, May 4, 1871. the Bar[?]arism of the Late War
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 4 May 1871 · page 2
A FEW years ago people were beginning to think that the era of perpetual peace had arrived, and that mankind, in the civilised world at any rate, had got beyond and above…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 1 June 1871 · page 3
"Hills, who was in charge of the artillery— two horse-artillery guns—of the Picquet, saw presently that it was a hostile attack, and ordered out his guns for action. But the enemy…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 6 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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Arrival of the Suez Mail, at Adelaide. Latest News to May 11. the Queen of the Thames Wrecked. Exhibition Opened 1St May. the Budget Unpopular. Irish Royal Residence Rumoured. Wool Sales Improved. Australian Meats for the Navy. Civil War Continues in France Government Troops Winning. Paris to Be Assaulted Immediately. Severe Cannonading Continues. Archbishop of Paris Released. the English Strikes Arranged. Breach of the Mississippi Embankments. Carlist Disurbances in Spain. Mercury Office, Monday, noon
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 6 June 1871 · page 2
We have just received the following mail telegram from our Sydney telegraphic agent:— The Rangatira arrived off Glenelg at six on Sunday evening…
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The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 22 June 1871 · page 3
Intelligence of a reliable nature has been received at Cope Coast Castle to the effect that the Ashantee army that invaded the eastern parts of the protectorate had been entirely destroyed,…
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