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The wars & local soldiers, 1886

26 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 2

The Tithe War in Wales

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 13 November 1886 · page 17

It was to be expected, when this agitation once got fairly under way, that it would rapidly extend beyond the borders of Denbighshire into the adjacent counties of North Wales, where the…

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The Effect of Civil War

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 November 1886 · page 7

When the war feeling in East Tennessee had become so bitter that all Union men had to flee from their homes or remain at the peril of their lives, a mountaineer named Alexander Brown left…

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The Rabbit War

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 9 December 1886 · page 3

The Minister for Mines informs the Press that during the month ending October 31 last 38 rabbit inspectors were at work in the colony. They inspected 6,974,714 acres. The men employed under…

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The War Scare

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 18 December 1886 · page 21

That war is inevitable next spring is still asserted on all sides, and the latest advices from Russia support this opinion. Great military preparations are in progress, not merely to meet the…

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Queer Things in War

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 December 1886 · page 2

Men might write for a hundred years of the curious phases of war and still leave the subject fresh. War is a lottery, and the prizes are shot, shell, wounds, and death. Tons of…

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The French Navy in a War with England

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 18 December 1886 · page 22

"Considerable sensation has been caused in France," says the Paris correspondent of the London Standard, "by a voluminous statement conspicuously published in the shape of a letter in the…

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