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Hunter Valley · The wars & local soldiers
2,219 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 22 of 111
General Gronje's position has been taken by the Sh[?]shires. Several thousand Boers made determined but ineffective efforts to relieve Cronje, but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT the annual dinner of the Hibernian Australian Catholic Benefit Society, held on Tuesday night at the Hotel Cecil, George-street, the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Official information has been received by the Imperial Government that Ladysmith has been relived. Major-General Dundonald, in command of the Natal Carabiniers and a composite cavalry…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The medical staff accompanying Lord Roberts, advance column is busy caring for 170 wounded Boers, who were found in a pitiful plight in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE story of the week in South Africa, albeit of intense interest to Britons throughout the Empire, can be summarised in a few sentences. The numerous details appear elsewhere under…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Herald of to-day, in its account of the embarking of the Bushmen's Contingent, says—"The little 4ft. 10in. Trumpeter, Rupert Peek, sat on a rail, and blew with his trumpet as loudly as he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Certain beetles, known as bombardiers, defend themselves by firing blank cartridges. On the approach of their chief enemy, a big beetle called calosoma, the bombardier opens…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Official information has been received by the Imperial Government that Ladysmith has been relieved. Major-General Dundonald, in command of the Natal Carabiniers and a composite cavalry…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Writing on the policy of the war in the Contemporary Review for January, Mr. A. R. Carman, of Montreal, looks at the subject from a British Radical's point of view, and is…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Australian troops frustrated an attack by the Boers to cut the railway line near Naauwport. Lieutenant-General Kelly-Kenny, in pursuing and enveloping General Cronje on both banks of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A correspondent of the British Medical Journal in Natal writes: At the Battle of Colenso, which was fought on December 15th, 1899, there were roughly about…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Lord Roberts telegraphs that "Commandant Cronje, with all his forces, capitulated unconditionally at daylight on Tuesday morning. He is now a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Writing in the Daily Telegraph Colonel G. W. Bell, Consul General for the United States, says : "The war will soon be over. On New Year's Day, among notes in my diary, I said among other…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The wounded at Klipvaal, near Ladysmith, on the 16th were: Privates T. Bull and W. Tweedie, of the N. S. Wales mounted missing at Arunded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SUSPENSE, elation, depression. There you have our week's feelings in a nutshell, says a London correspondent. From Friday last and until…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Further particulars regarding the pursuit of General Cronje's forces state that Lieutenant-General Kelly-Kenny enveloped the Boers on both banks of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War Office officially announces that Ladysmith has been relieved. The British have occupied Rensberg. Captain Cameron. of Tasmania, has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—The probable effects of the present war both as it may affect the world generally in the first decade of this century and with an increasing volume of importance as time rolls on—is a most…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SINCE our last article on the war in South Africa, events have marched rapidly. General Crouje, despite his assertion that he would fight to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AT the commencement of the war Piet Cronje, who then maked on commandant and who also held the important office of Superintendent of…
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