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The wars & local soldiers, 1900

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The War. Sydney

The Inverell Times · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 2

The Boers who reheated from Ladysmith are recuperating their horses on tire Transvaal border. A strong British force is marching northward…

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The Transvaal War. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 3

The Boers who retreated from Ladysmith, are recuperating with their horses on the Transvaal borders. A strong British force has marched…

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The Transvaal War. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 5

Lord [?]berts has turned the left flank of be Boers at Osfontein. The enmy is in full retreat. The fighting was confined to…

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The War is Nearly Over

The Inverell Times · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 2

The war is nearly over, for tho Boers are mostly dead, And tho e that are not dead are badly lick'd…

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The Transvaal War. the Relief of Ladysmith

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 4

While Major-General the Earl of Dundolald was galloping into Ladysmith on Wednesday at sunset the outpost in the scrub at Wagon Hill…

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Letter from the War. Corporal Fallick at the Front

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 5

Corporal Fallick, of the N.S.W. Lancers, writes to his brother, Mr. C. P. Fallick, of this city, under date Naauwpoort, 1st February, as follows: —…

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The Transvaal War. Battle of Magersfontein. How Wauchope Died

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 7

The "Times of India" prints the following graphic account of the Magersfontein muddle:—It was considered expedient that the Highland…

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Latest War News. Boer Prisoners to Go to St. Helena. the Boers Routed. Sydney, Friday Night

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 3

Buller reports additional losses in the rank and file for from February 16 to 27 as follows: Killed 115,wounded 582, missing 54 Buller is pushing his…

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Ill and Wounded. LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 March 1900 · page 5

T[?]OOPER, R. B. CAMPBELL of the New South Wales Mounted Infantry, is lying in the hospital seriously ill. Privates C. Wargalt and J. M'Cracken, of the N.S.W…

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The War. London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 March 1900 · page 2

LORD ROBERTS has telegraphed from Oxfontein this afternoon, that the Boers who have been outflanked there and are in full retreat towards…

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The War. London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 March 1900 · page 4

THE TIMES' Capetown correspondent says that an explicit Ministerial statement, announcing that annexation is intended, would infuse new life into…

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The War Loan. LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 March 1900 · page 5

THE British war loan is proving to be a huge success, and the Bank of England is besieged every day by applicants for scrip. One American financial firm has applied…

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The War. the Latest. Boers at Biggarsberg. LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 March 1900 · page 5

THE Boers are now engaged, in entrenching themselves at Biggarsberg, in the northwestern portion of Natal. Strong forces of the enemy are also…

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Our Wires. (Per Greville's Telegram Company) the War London

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 March 1900 · page 2

The entire population of Carnarvon entertained the New Zealand troops upon their arrival in the town. The 'Daily Mail' states that Presidents…

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The War. By Cable. 50,000 Kaffirs Commandeered. LONDON

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 March 1900 · page 5

FIFTY THOUSAND Kaffirs have been commandeered by the Boers, and have been set to work, under strong guards, to entrench Pretoria…

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The Soldier Whose Name Will Never Die

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 March 1900 · page 7

SHAW, the Life Guardsman, though finding lasting fame as one of the greatest heroes of Waterloo, by his glorious death strangely eclipsed…

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More Colonial Soldiers Wanted

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 March 1900 · page 2

DEALING with the question of sending more colonial troops to South Africa, the Melbourne " Argus" says:--It is easy to understand the call for mounted men. The…

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War Notes

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 14 March 1900 · page 3

The cost of the horses purchased for the Victorian Bushmen's contingent averaged £18 5s per head. Trooper M'Gill, of the Berry Lancers,…

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The Teansvaal War. London

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 14 March 1900 · page 3

The Boers left cooked dinners at Osfontein, also a Krupp gnu and several waggons. The cavalry brigades outstripped the supporting infantry daring the outflanking…

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Lyddite As a Logical War Material

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 16 March 1900 · page 1

If the object of war be so destroy as many of the eneemy as possible then it follows that the more effective the means of destruction employed the sooner will that…

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