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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1899

186 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 1 of 10

War in the Philippines. London

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 7 February 1899 · page 2

Hostilities have broken not in the Philippines. An American sentry fired upon a few Philippines who disregarded his warning not to approach…

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War. London

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 10 February 1899 · page 2

The Fillipino leaders have applied for an armistice, in order to confer with General Otis. The fact that no answer has been made to Aguinaldo's…

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War

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 17 February 1899 · page 2

The Americans ousted the Fillipino's from Javo, near ilo. After a desperate battle at close quarters near Manila, the Fillipinos retired to…

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The Philippines. Islands with a History. for Centuries the Scene of War

Forbes Times · Saturday 18 March 1899 · page 6

For the last four centuries or so, ever since they have occupied the notice of civilised Powers, the history of the Philippine Islands has been of a stirring and sanguinary character. Considering…

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Taken in War

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1899 · page 6

THE Colonel came home upon leave—the only leave spent…

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War Ends Every Century

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1899 · page 5

It is a curious fact, however little real significance it may have, that regularly, since and including the close of the eleventh century, each…

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A Woman Soldier

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 1 April 1899 · page 3

The American mail brings details of the career of the late Mrs L. H. Seelye, who fought as a soldier in the Civil war, dressed as a man. Like Mary Talbot, her famous…

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The War in Samoa

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 14 April 1899 · page 2

THE so-called Samoan rebels are giving the combined forces of Britishers and Americans some serious trouble. Their leader, Mataafa, who, it is said, is being…

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The Philippine War

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 25 April 1899 · page 2

The Americana attacked the town of Guaqna, in the Philippines, and were repulsed, having lost eighty men with fifty wounded. They were…

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War and Love

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 29 April 1899 · page 1

War and love are strange compeers ; War sheds blood, and Love sheds tears. War has swords, and Love has darts; War breaks heads and Love breaks…

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An Episode in a Great War

Forbes Times · Saturday 29 April 1899 · page 3

PRINCE DE BRAUFREMONT was colonel in the French cavalry, his regiment being one of those disarmed by the Prussians after Napolean’s defeat at Sedan. The Prince was ordered to…

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A Tug of War. [All Rights Reserved.]

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 20 May 1899 · page 6

"What a lucky girl I am !" said pretty Lina Vernon - a month ago Lina Moore. "I'm only nineteen, and I'm married before any other girl I know, und I've had my own way through…

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An American War Story

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 24 June 1899 · page 5

When Theodore Roosevelt was giving his farewell address to the Roughriders at Camp Wikoff recently, he concluded with this little story…

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Russia. Preparing Fgr War

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 24 June 1899 · page 9

The Russian authorities are consulting American gun manufactories with the view to an emergency order for 600 quick-firing guns…

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The Boer War in Sight. Kruger and Chamberlain Face to Face

Forbes Times · Saturday 24 June 1899 · page 4

I AM never very far out in the deeper study of foreign politics and military probabilities. I was right with my conjectures with regard to the fact that Russia would have all Northern China, and…

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The Vampire of War

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 29 July 1899 · page 1

Counting only the armies of the six great Powers on a pence footing, they amount now to nearly three millions of men ; and if we add the men…

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A Family of Soldiers

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Saturday 29 July 1899 · page 2

The death was announced a few days ago of Mrs. Margaret Hobbs, of Barnaby House, King's County, a lady of 103 years of age, who was one of the most interesting figures in…

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A New War Terror

Cowra Guardian and Lachlan Agricultural Recorder · Saturday 12 August 1899 · page 12

The Royal Engineers (says the “Daily Telegraph”) have been testing the value of wireless telegraphy not only as a means or maintaining…

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General Wood at Santiago. "Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war."—MILTON

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Friday 15 September 1899 · page 4

IF ever in this world the extraordinary man, the man of desting, the man of pre-eminent power and resource, was needed, it was in…

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War Iminent. London

The Wyalong Star and Temora and Barmedman Advertiser · Tuesday 19 September 1899 · page 2

The President of the Orange Free State told the leader of the Africander Bund it was now too late to prevent war. Germany has warned its subjects that their…

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