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The wars & local soldiers, 1872

8 stories in Riverina's papers

Young France During the War

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 6 January 1872 · page 4

AT last we started and went slowly on over very pretty country, a splendid route imperial, and not a trace of war to be seen anywhere. We read, and…

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Moral Superiority in War

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 6 April 1872 · page 4

PENDING the official history of the war, which is in the able hands of Colonel von Verdy, we are not left entirely without the means of judging to what causes Pr[?]ssian officers ascribe…

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Original Correspondence. the Hospital War. (To the Editor of the W. W. Advertiser.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 18 May 1872 · page 2

SIR,—Touching the Hospital cum-proxycum-Doctor little war, it strikes me the Doctor has the best points in the game, and you newspapers help him against yourselves…

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News by the Mail Rumours of War

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 5 June 1872 · page 2

THE Daily Telegraph baa published some disqui[?]ting letters, which profess to be inspired from high quarters in Berlin, and are apparently intended to influence public opinion is France. Yesterday…

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The Possibility of War This Year

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 15 June 1872 · page 4

THE Spectator is of opinion that the real danger of war in Europe, and it believes the danger is very real, arises from the character, the history, and the…

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The Idyl of Battle Hollow. War of the Rebellion, 1864. by Bret Harte

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Saturday 15 June 1872 · page 4

No, I won't—thar, now so? And it ain't nothin'—no! And thar's nary to tell that you folks yer don't know;…

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Poetry. the Alabama War

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 6 July 1872 · page 4

The Lon sat and wagged his tail On banghty Albion's cliffs of chalk ; The E[?]gle, perched on a Yankee rail Opened his beak and emitted a squawk…

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Women As Soldiers

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 10 July 1872 · page 4

IN the March number of the Fortnightly Review there is an article on "Custom and Sex," the aim of which is to increase the belief that women are…

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