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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1857

6 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers

India. the War with Persia

Northern Times · Wednesday 18 March 1857 · page 3

We are indebted to our Melbourne contemporaries for the following:—We learn from Calcutta that the electric telegraph is nearly complete across the Egyptian desert to Suez, and…

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The War with China

Northern Times · Saturday 25 April 1857 · page 3

The Daily News also gives prominence to the following paragraph:—"In another column we have stated that no troops are to be sent from England to Persia We have equally good grounds for believing that no…

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The War with Persia

Northern Times · Saturday 25 April 1857 · page 3

Vienna, February 12.—700 men have arrived in the Persian, Golf from Bomboy. An English corps [?] has reached Cabul. It is matching. in conjunction with the troops of Dost Mathommed, upon Herst. The…

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Rumoured Termination of the Persian War

Northern Times · Saturday 25 April 1857 · page 3

It is not intended, says the Daily News, to send out any troops from England to Persia. This announcement we make with the met entire confidence that it will be found to be correct. We believe we any may add that the…

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War with China

Northern Times · Wednesday 20 May 1857 · page 2

OUR news from England, which [?]us with political matter of a stirring character. A hydra-headed attack upon the Palmerston Government has left his…

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The Indian War

Northern Times · Saturday 21 November 1857 · page 2

To lighten the gloom which has lately enveloped the precarious position of British rule in India, the late mail brings intelligence of the fall of Delhi, the great stronghold of the insurrectionists…

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