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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1862

11 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers

Rival of the Mail. Most Important News. Umored War Between England and Tile Federal States of America. Sported Seizure of the West India R.m. Steamer La Plata by a Federal War Steamer

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 15 January 1862 · page 3

The City of Sydney, steamer, arrived at adelaide on Saturday afternoon, bringing news received by the R.M.S. Benares, ich reached King George's Sound on the…

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Test News by Telegraph Via India. Rious Difficulty Arisen Between England and the Northern States of America. War Not Improbable

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 15 January 1862 · page 3

The export of saltpetre from Great Britain been prohibited. Great excitements prevails. Cotton one penny per lb lower…

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The Civil War in America

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 18 January 1862 · page 4

General M'Clellan has recently made a speech ut Washington, in which he says that the war cannot be long, although it may be desperate…

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War with the United States

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Tuesday 21 January 1862 · page 4

OFFICIAL information af the declaration of [?] with the United States was received very [?] this morning. The immediate effect was a [?] pression of the fun that had been going on…

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Later English News. The American Difficulty! Important Intelligence! Likelihood of War

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 26 February 1862 · page 2

The following important news reached us by telegraph on Monday night, from our correspondent in Sydney, and was circulated in slips…

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English News to the 26th December. Funeral of Prince Albert. the American War

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 8 March 1862 · page 2

The Captain of the Thomas Brown reports that before leaving Mauritius, news had arrived at Port Louis, to the effect that a French vessel had been overhauled by an armed…

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Arrival of a Federal War Steamer at Southampton

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 5 April 1862 · page 3

The Tuscarora one of the new screw corvettes built for the Federal navy, arrived in the river on Wednesday afternoon, about half-past 3 o'clock, from New York. She…

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Previous Progress of the War

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 14 May 1862 · page 4

The following telegrams had been received in San Francisco two days before. The connection of news is not complete, owing Lo the line having been out of order, but those…

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Present State of Taranaki—the Horrors of War

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 11 June 1862 · page 3

Mr. James Hay, late farmer of Tataraimaka and now of Omata. stockade, writes to the New Zealander as follows :—With your. permission, Mr. Editor, I will…

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The War in America. News to 27Th September, Via California

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Saturday 29 November 1862 · page 4

THE Oregon, Captain Wilson, brings us San Francisco papers to the 27th of September, and telegraphic news from Washington and New York to the 26th…

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The War in America. Rumoured Cessation of Hostilities

The Newcastle Chronicle and Hunter River District News · Wednesday 3 December 1862 · page 3

By the Heloise, from San Francisco, which arrived this evening, we have news from New York to the 16th October. A despatch to the Californian press states…

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