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Riverina · The wars & local soldiers
2,127 stories in Riverina's papers · page 35 of 107
The War O[?]ce has received Lord Roverts' official reports of the unfortunate mishap which befell Colonel Broad[?]ood's column whilst marching from Thaba 'Nehu to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The passengers by the steamer Ju[?], which is conveying 420 immigrants to Queensland, including 178 spinsters, have agreed to manufacture comforts for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The report of the surprise and capture by a strong ambushed force of Boers of a battery of horse artillery attached to Colonel Broadwood's Thaba N'Chu…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A British convoy, with six guns, fell into the hands of the Boers outside Bloemfontein. The convoy was ambushed and captured without a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lord Roberts attributes the delay in finishing details of the lighting at D[?]rn Spirit to the fact that there have been interruptions to the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No confirmation has been received of the cable message published by the 'Daily Chronicle' stating that Sir Henry Colvilie had succeeded in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Australians participated in the engagement at Karree. The kopjes afforded the enemy good vantage, and a severe fire…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →If the object of war be so destroy as many of the enemy as possible then it follows that the more effective the means of destruction employed the sooner will that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At the Doonspruit disaster gallant attempts wore made to rescue the puns of the A Battery, the horses being continuously shot…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →General Jaubert died suddenly at Pretorin. President Kruger takes full command. Friday, 10 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The following letter was received by Mrs. Reynolds from her husband last week.âS.S. Southern Cross, February 11th.âMy Dear Wife.âJust a few lines…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At tho battle on the Karee kopjes in which the Boers were defeated the British had 10,000 troops engaged and forty-two guns. The Boers, had 3000, some guns, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rimington's Scoats, the artillery, and the waggons entered Dooru Spruit without having the slighest suspicion that the enemy was near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →reinforced by Commandant Olivier ; and the enemy is in some force at Bushman's Kop, and threatened to make raids on railway transports…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mafeking Ba(y)den-Powell's school nickname was Bathing Towel. The Widow's little war bill amounts to £2,500,000,000. And we can't afford…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THERE is perhaps no feature in the present war more remarkable than the large number of cases in which soldiers, who have been mortally…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →This war was not fought with the gloves. It was, in truth, as savage a contest as the world has seen. The German generals spared their own men…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Korspruitt disaster all the officers and men belonging to the U Battery were captured except two, while three officers were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Is war so very terrible in its results as the casual onlooker imagines? Max Nordau, who writes on the "Philosophy and Morals of War" answers the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →General Gatacre is co-operating with the British force at Bloomfontein, and protecting the lines. The ground eastward of the town is…
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