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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1871

10 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Original Poetry. the War

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 12 January 1871 · page 3

BEYOND the seas in distant lands The deadly conflict still goes on: The blood-stained plain, called field of fame, Now marks the spot of thousands gone…

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Latest Particulars Seat of War First Edition. [Through Greville's Telegram Company.] Sydney. Tuesday, 9.55 a.m

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 19 January 1871 · page 3

THE English mail has arrived at Adelaide. England is not involved in war. The Russian difficulty is amicably…

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War News to December Io

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 23 February 1871 · page 4

A great sortie was made from Paris early in December, mainly towards the South-east and South, in the direction of Fontainebleau road and Champigny, involving battles the…

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The War. the Great Sortie From Paris. Paris, November 30

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 2 March 1871 · page 3

The following is General Trochu's proclamation before the sorties from Paris:— "Citizens of Paris Soldiers of the National Guard and of the Army,—The…

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Dr Forrest on the Francoprussian War

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 11 May 1871 · page 3

YESTERDAY evening, at the Masonic Hall in York-street, the Very Rev. Dr Forrest—the rector of St. John's College, within the University of Sydney—delivered an…

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Civil War in France

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 8 June 1871 · page 3

When the mail left, on 12st April, severe fighting and cannonading were incessant around Paris. The Commune was making extensive preparations for resistance…

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Report of the Communist Minister of War. Paris, April 14, noon

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 15 June 1871 · page 4

General Cluseret has dated the following report to the Commune, dated yesterday, the 13th instant:—"I have just returned from inspecting…

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An Adventure During the Late War

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 24 August 1871 · page 4

A NEPHEW of Dr Wolls, of Parramatta, had a very narrow escape from being shot during the late Franco-Prussian war. It appears that about a year since, M. Maurice…

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Frightful Steam Boat Explosion.—nearly 200 Persons Killed and Wounded

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 21 September 1871 · page 4

NEW YORK, July 30.—The Staten Island ferry-boat Westfield, when in slip Whitehall, and crowded with passengers, exploded her boiler at 1.20 p.m. to-day. The…

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Appalling Railroad Disaster. Upwards of Seventy Passengers Killed and Wounded

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 26 October 1871 · page 4

BOSTON, U.S., August 21.—A frightful accident occurred last night, on the Eastern Railroad, at Revere, seven from Boston. The accommodation train started before…

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