Select Poetry. War and Peace
It may be glorious great, and good, to meet the [?] foe That would usurp our liberties—our birthright overthrow;…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1873
17 stories in Illawarra's papers
Poetry. the Soldier's Pardon
WILD blew the gale in Gibraltar one night As a soldier lay stretched in his cell: And anon, 'mid the darkness, the moon's silver light…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →French War Losses
We published on Monday, from our French Correspondent, a brief but very interesting piece of information, being nothing less than an authentie statement of the cost of the late war…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Secret History of the Crimean War
The Russian Government have just permitted the publication of some must interesting documents relating to the origin of the Crimean War. You remember Prince Men[?] and his boot and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Ashantee War
Telegrams have informed us of the outbreak of this war. Mr. F. Hutton, Dale-street, Manchester, writes to the 'Manchester Guardian' as follows respecting it:—"Sir, Enclosed is an extract of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Dutch War in Sumatra
The Daily Telegraph has some special information about the Dutch war in Sumatra. A despatch dated from Singapore says that in their attack upon the Atobinese the Dutch succeeded…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Man-of-war of To-day
BRITANNIA's latest-born " water-baby"—the breastwork turret vessel Devastation—took her first public airing on April 15 off the Isle of Wight. No fond…
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Britannia's latest born "water baby"—the breast-work turret vessel Devastation—took her first public airing on April 15, off the Isle of Wight. No fond maternal pride can make this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Chinamen as Soldiers
The frequent references which have been made of late to the Chinese as a possible power in Central Asia render the consideration of the fighting qualities of that people a subject of much…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Dutch Acheenese War
There vessels flying the English flag, laden with merchandise, and bound from Acheon to Penang, have been fired into by a Dutch man-of-war, The agent of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Acheen War
From the Java papers we obtain a fow particulars respecting the war in Acheen. According to the Java Bode of the 21st May, the total strength of the Acheen expeditionary forces was 144…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An English Man-of-war Mistaken for a Pirate
CAPTAIN KIOLSETH, of the barque Oscar, reports that about July 11, when in latitude 17 degrees 40 minutes and longitude 162 degree, and during a heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Ashantee War
To the majority of Englishmen our West African possessions are only associated in a dim sort of manner with ivory, gold dost, palm oil, slam, the King of Dahomey, and his 'customers.'…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Civil War in Fiji
The 'Fiji Times' of the 9th August has an account from a correspondent at Savu Savu of unheard of atrocities inflicted by the cruel chieftain, Tin Cakau. His first act on arriving there…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News by the San Francisco Mail. the Civil War in Spain. Madrid, August 18
THERE is no truth in the despatch to the Carlist Junta at Bayonne reporting the capture of Berga. The insurgents' attack was gallantly resisted by the Republicans,…
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The principal officers in command of the expedition against King Coffee and the Ashantees embarked at Liverpool on September 10, en route for the Gold Coast, but, as there will be much to…
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Sir Garnet Wolseley reaches the Gold Coast, named with full powers for peace or for war. He has two foes to encounter—the savage power of Ashantee, which can bring a hundred thousand…
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