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Dubbo & the Western Plains · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1897

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The War. [By Cable.] London, June 7

The Western Herald · Wednesday 9 June 1897 · page 2

The Sultan of Turkey has offered pardon to the members of the Young Turkish party, and will grant reforms if the party will assist the Government at the present crisis…

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Spanish Soldiers

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 18 June 1897 · page 7

ONE of the most pathetic, even heartrending things in the history of modern warfare has been the sending of thousands of very young peasants from the interior districts…

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The Cost of War

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 23 July 1897 · page 6

AT a time when we have been hearing so much of 'war and rumours of war' it may not be unprofitable to consider for a moment the cost of war; not merely the annual cost of…

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An Old Soldier's Story. a Reminiscence of the Zulu Campaigh

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 31 July 1897 · page 4

Mr. Richard Groves owns a comfortable house and grounds at Hyde Park, near Rookwood, Sydney, and is spending the remainder of a stirring…

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Banquet to New South Wales Soldiers. London

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 3 August 1897 · page 3

THE New South Wales colonists in London last, night entertained the members of the New South Wales military contingent at a banquet, at which Mr. William St. John F. Brodrick, Parliamentary…

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An Old Soldier's Story. a Reminiscence of the Zulu Campaign

The Western Herald · Wednesday 11 August 1897 · page 1

Mr. Richard Groves owns a comfortable house and grounds at Hyde Park, near Rookwood. Sydney, and is spending the remai[?]let of a stirring life in hounrable…

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Prince Henry of Orleans. Duel with the Count of Turin. the French Prince Wounded. a Sharp and Determined Encounter

The Western Herald · Saturday 21 August 1897 · page 4

The duel between Prince Henry of Orleans and the Count of Turin, arising out of the charges made by the former of cowardice on the part of the Italians…

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The Trouble in South Africa. Letter From a Dubbo Soldier

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 11 September 1897 · page 2

AN interesting letter bas been received by a residens of Dubbo from Private Robert Cale (formerly of this town), and now a member of "Prince…

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War Inevitable. London, September 23

The Western Herald · Saturday 25 September 1897 · page 2

It is considered that war between Spain and the United States in connection with the Cuban question is inevitable…

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Indian Frontier War

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 26 October 1897 · page 2

LONDON, Oct. 22. -- News from the north-western frontier of India states that in the second attack made by the British force under General Yeatman- Baggs upon Dargai, one of the heights commanding…

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