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Illawarra · The wars & local soldiers
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LONDON, August 16. THE left wing of Mehemet Ali's army is marching to join Sulieman Pasha, whose cavalry is already beyond the Balkans, in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →OLD Russia from his snowelad empire sees The careless Turk in luxury and case; And as he looks, his cagle claws in shakes, And all the rancour of the past awakes—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Russians have abandoned the town of Schipka, and it is now occupied by the army of Suliman Pasha. The Porte is concentrating a militia of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AN Imperial order of the day has been issued calling into service all who are capable. of beating arms, but who have been bitherto exempt…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SULIEMAN Pasha has not crossed the Balkans. He passed Kesanlik on the 19th instant. Russian official despatches state that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Turkish reports as to the route of the Russians from the Schipka pass, are altogether untrue…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The latest Russian official despatch states that all the attacks made by the Turks on the Schipka Pass were repulsed. The Russians were reinforced; the fighting was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Turks are making concerted movements prior to the arrival of Russian remforcements, with the object of recapturing Tirnova, Gabrova, and Selvi…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The sanitary arrangements in the field are good, and the public decency of the men might well be imitated at Aldershot. Latrines are constantly being opened and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MEHEMET Ali assumed the offensive on the Upper Lom on Thursday, and three Turkish columns advanced from Eski Djuma and Rasgrad. A desperate battle was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AT Pordin Pelisat the Turks attacked the Russian position in great force. The Russian entrenchments were three times taken and recaptured, and M'Mahon says the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Turkish force from Eski Djuma crossed the River Lom near Jaslar. They attacked and defeated the Russians, who were compelled to fall back from Lom. The Turks…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Before the end of July the Russians had concentrated 100,000 troops in front of Plevna, and completed the investment of Rustehuk, advancing ear enough to throw…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MEHEMET Ali telegraphs that Ahmet Eyoub Pasha has driven the 12th Russian corps across the Lom, with a loss of 3000 men; the Turkish loss was 900…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Russians admit a defeat at Kazelevo about fifteen miles east of Biela, with heavy loss, and had to fall back upon Ostriza…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Servia, in replying to British representations against w[?]rlike preparations, said that she must be prepared for every emergency…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Earl of Derby, in the course of an address at Liverpool, said that the present time was unfavourable for any intervention in regard to the war by third parties…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A BATTLE at Plevna, between the Russian and Turkish armies, with ninety thousand troops aside, has resulted in a total defeat of the Turkish forces…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London, August 1.—The Daily News correspondent telegraphing from Bulgareni fifteen miles from Plevna, gives a detailed account of the lighting of Monday. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In a graphic account of the fighting around Plevna on the 31st July, the correspondent of the Daily News, who accompanied the Russian army, and narrowly…
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