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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1866

7 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

The War in Chili. Naval Engagement

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 15 March 1866 · page 3

We are favoured with the following extract from a letter dated Valparaise, December 1st:—"The Chilian corvette Esmeralda, 20 guns and 133 men, whose whereabouts it has, for such a…

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Desperate Attack of Prisoners on a Police Escort. One Constable Shot Dead, and Three Prisoners Wounded

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 19 April 1866 · page 2

ON Saturday evening, a telegram was received by the Inspector-General of Police, intimating that a terrible encounter had taken place between the police and some prisoners they were escorting from Berrima…

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War in Germany and Italy

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 16 August 1866 · page 3

The long expected war has now fully broken out. Prussia, the Northern States of Germany and Italy, are in open hostilities with Austria; the remainder of the German powers, owing to the refusal of…

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Arrival of the English Mail at Adelaide. Defeat and Resignation of the Ministry. a Derby Cabinet Formed. War in All Germany. Disruption of the Germanic Confederation. Cession of Venetia to France Great Battles in Bohemia. a French Fleet in the Adriatic. Adelaide, Sunday morning

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 16 August 1866 · page 3

THE Ellora, steamer, arrived at King George's Sound on the 7th instant. The branch steamer Wonga Wonga reached Adelaide on Saturday, bringing the South…

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News by the Ellora. the War in Germany

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 23 August 1866 · page 4

ON the 18th June, the anniversary of Waterloo, and just fifty-one years after that great battle, Prussia and Italy declared war against Austria. Prussia had previously…

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The War in Germany. the Great Austrian Defeat

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 20 September 1866 · page 4

A PAUSE of three days seems to have been allowed to the combatants on both sides after the battle of Gitschin. Finally, on Tuesday, July 3, the 1st Prussian army…

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Arrival of the English Mail. Particulars of the News. [For an account of the war in Germany see fourth page.] the War in Italy. Padua, July 19

Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser · Thursday 20 September 1866 · page 2

It may be definitely announced that with the exception of a few points, the whole of Venctia has by this time been abandoned by the Austrians…

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