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The wars & local soldiers, 1858

6 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers

The Mormon War

Northern Times · Saturday 20 February 1858 · page 2

As the gallent General Riely was advancing at the head of his command to scale the heights of Cerro-Gordo, an officer of the Staff asked him if he really expected to carry the defences, Curry…

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The President on the Mormon War

Northern Times · Saturday 20 March 1858 · page 4

A territorial Government was established for Utah by Act of Congress, approved the 9th of September, 1830, and the constitution and laws of the United States were thereby extended over it "so far as the same, or any…

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The Mormon War. Washington, Saturday, January 9, 1858

Northern Times · Saturday 10 April 1858 · page 2

From advices received to-day it appears that the Mormons will not retreat from Utah, as was expected by the government, but will fight it out where they are. This insures a bloody war in the spring…

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Russell's Pictures of the Scene of War

Northern Times · Wednesday 16 June 1858 · page 4

Mr. Russell, the Times' correspondent, gives the following pictures from the seat of war. He writs from the camp at Bunthurah, nine miles from Luckow, 2nd March. We will first give his photograph of…

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The Tendency of the French Empire Towards War with England

Northern Times · Saturday 26 June 1858 · page 3

The Government of France has required a foreign war as imperatively as a revenue. The army has always been either comp[?] or warring against some foreign nation. To deprive the French soldier of a foreign for has always been to turn their swords against…

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The War Spirit of England

Northern Times · Wednesday 21 July 1858 · page 3

Of all nations, says the "Times," there is none that drifts into war so easily as England. The facility consists in our perfect security, in the good opinion of our own justice and peaceableness, and in the intention which…

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