The War. LONDON, Friday. Fighting Strength
The Boers have 13,000 men on the northern frontier of Natal, 3,500 near Mafeking, And 3,000 in the neighbourhood of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1899
186 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 3 of 10
Map of the Seat of War
Nine British were wounded. The Boers were repulsed. Native reports state that the Boers were badly defeated…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War at Last
With a recklessness that can only be regarded as a kind of insanity, the two tiny Boer Republics (which number between them less than half the population of Sydney)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Week's War News
General Sir Redvers Buller left London on Sunday for Southampton, on his way to assun[?]e the command in South Africa. The Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, Lord Wolseley…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cost of War. Some Interesting Figures
THE Washington Bureau of Ordnance recently issued some interesting statistics of the details of the cost of annihilating the Spanish navy. Admiral Dewey (says the London Daily News)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boer War Notes. Written for the Cowra Guardian
Earl Beauchamp thanked God the other day that he had been born an Englishman, or, at any rate, something Very like it; and although some of our…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Transvaal War
ACCORDING to the reports to hand, and they must be credited with a certain amount of reliability, the Transvaal war is not likely to last so…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Holman, M.P., on the War
BY request of Mr. W. A. Holman, M.P., we publish the following extracts from an advance proof of Hansard regarding what our member recently said in the House…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Frisoners and Wounded
It is reported that the Boers treat the prisoners very well. The British wounded who were removed to Dundee after Impati Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →War News
[UNDER this heading we purpose giving the fullest particulars which our space will allow of the conflict now raging in South Africa. To…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boer War Map
Printed in N. S. Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. LONDON
It is now an open secret that Great Britain fears grave complications with other Powers, one being Russia. All the cruisers in British waters…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The War. London
It is estimated that 30,000 Boers are invading Natal. The War Office has been unofficially informed that about 80 men and 9…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Transvaal War. [By Electric Telegraph.]
The following were issued by us as "extras" during the week. SYDNEY, Friday. The British have defeated a big Boer…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A Relle of the War
Many old soldiers now feel the ef fects of the hard service they endured during the war. Mr. Geo. S. Anderson of Rossville, York county, Penn.,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War. the Battle of Glencoe. London
The British, after a brilliant charge, in which they were outnumbered by about two to one, have captured the almost inaccessible heights of Glencoe…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boer War Notes. (Written Specially for the [?] PION.) (All Rights Reserved.)
The battle of Glencoe has furnished the Bo[?] with conclusive evidence that British redcoats are not the poltroons and incapables which they have…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Transvaal War Latest Developments. [By Electric Telegraph.] Sydney, Thursday. Grave Complications Feared by the British
Orders have been issued that all British cruisers be mobilized for naval manoeuvres. They are at the same time preparing to be commissioned…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Week's War News
COLONEL BADEN-POWELL, in charge of Frontier Light Horse at Mafeking, feigned a retreat from the large invading force of the Boers, drew them over mines charged with Lyddite shells…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War in South Africa
The news of the British victories at Glencoe and Eland's Laugte is most welcome. The handling they have received must show the Boers the groundlessness of the vain…
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