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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1864

12 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Drafted: a Story of the War

The Golden Age · Thursday 25 February 1864 · page 4

IT was a pleasant home-like place—a neat cottage half hid by graceful foliage. Everything betokened peace and happiness. Involuntarily I sighed as…

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Continental. Outbreak of War

The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser · Wednesday 20 April 1864 · page 4

The combined Austrian and Prussian forces crossed the Schleswig frontier on the 31st January. On the 1st of February, a battle was…

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War in Denmark

The Golden Age · Thursday 21 April 1864 · page 2

Prussia and Austria having refused the guarantee of England that Denmark would fulfil her engagement under the treaty of London in 1852, while Denmark announced her…

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The Horrors of War

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 2 June 1864 · page 3

THE special Correspondent of the Star describes the scenes which he witnessed soon after passing through Breckendorf. He says:—…

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The War in Denmark

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 14 July 1864 · page 2

An armistice for one month had been declared between the German powers and Denmark. Prospects exists of a speedy conclusion of the war…

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Arrival of the July Mail. Termination of the Danish War. Peace to Be Established. Rupture Between Austria and Prussia Probable. Confederate Successes in America. Threatened Withdrawal of Troops From New Zealand. Anticipated Re-establishment of Former Postal Rates to England. Adelaide, Wednesday. 5.40 p.m

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 8 September 1864 · page 3

THE branch steamer arrived here at ten o'clock this morning, bringing the English July mail. The following are the principal…

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The War Time Coming

The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser · Wednesday 14 September 1864 · page 4

There’s a war time coming boys, A war time coming; And if the thunder roll this way, /There’ll be the what’s his name to…

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A Soldier's View of the New Zealand War

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 22 September 1864 · page 3

A FIELD officer, writing to the Times says:—"The telegram containing the account of fresh severe losses sustained by our troops in New Zealand will be read by every true man…

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The War in Denmark

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 22 September 1864 · page 4

THE German Powers lost not a moment after the expiration of the armistice in renewing hostilities against the Danes. The armistice terminated on Saturday…

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Origin of the War in New Zealand

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 6 October 1864 · page 3

THE Rev Mr Ironside, of Adelaide, in a lecture recently delivered at Norwood, on "The War in New Zealand, and what led to it," said, the war, which was not with the settlers,…

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The Wounded of the Alabama and Kearsarge

The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser · Wednesday 26 October 1864 · page 3

M. DUFAURE, a surgeon of the French navy, has published an interesting account of the wounded seamen who were…

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Lecture on the American War

The Braidwood News and Southern Goldfields General Advertiser · Saturday 12 November 1864 · page 2

ON Thursday evening last, at the Doncaster Assembly Rooms, the Rev. Adam Likely, B.A., Goldfields Chaplain, delivered a lecture on the…

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