The Irish Soldier’s Evidence
An Irish soldier on sentry duty had orders to allow no one to smoke near his post. An Officer with a lighted cigar approached and Pat boldly challenged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →South Coast · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1898
106 stories in South Coast's papers · page 1 of 6
Soldiers who must be Swimmers
In the Dutch army a man must be able to swim as well as to fight. Moreover, if he is in the cavalry, he must have a horse which will take a river as easily as hunter takes…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Irish Soldier's Evidence
An Irish soldier on [?]try duty had orders to allow no one to smoke near his post. An officer with a lighted cigar approached, and Put boldly challenged him and ordered him…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Future War Weapons
A POLISH chemist named Simon Pavlowski, of Warsaw, has invented a new gas which, it used in the battles of the future, will put and end to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Chances of War
THE warlike news from the other side of the globe is setting up a [?] calculate chances. Apart from the very remote danger of invesion, it is petty clear…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Soudan War. a Great Victory
A DIVISIVE engagement took place on Good Friday in the Soudan between the Anglo-Egyptian forces, under General Kitchener, and the Khalifaâs troops, under…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The United States and Spain. War Declared. Latest Cablegrams. London
PRESIDENT MâKINLEY has signed an ultimatum that war between America and Spain will commence on Saturday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →America and Spain. War Decided On
After weeks of doubt and uncertainty, the inevitable has come about. War has been decided upon between the United States and Spain, and by the time these…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →America and Spain. War Declared
The United States Senate has passed resolutions tantamount to an full recognition of the Guban insurgent Government. The resolutions passes-by the United States,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Cuban War. Latest Cablegrams. London
AMERICA has commenced hostilities by capturing a Spanish lumber ship. The blockade of Havana by American warships has started…
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THE long expected has at last-happened, And war has been declared by Spam against the United States over the Cuban question. We in this country are more than usually…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cuban War. Latest Cablegrams. London
PRESIDENT McKINLEY has authorised the London â Daily Mail â to declare that America will ever remember the goodwill displayed by Great Britain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. (By telegraph and otherwise.)Friday 23
It was the prompt action of Spain in severing diplomatic relations that fed president M‘Kinley to take immediate action Havana is garrisoned by 28,000 regulars and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. Neither Spain Nor America Prepared No Decisive Action Probable for Some Time a Naval Battle Impending
Americans, have captured the steamer Panamar, and also two Cuban coasting vessels. It has become plain that neither America…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. Havana Bombarded by American Warships. Great Loss of Life. Spanish Forts Demolished
The United States warships New York, Puritan, and Cincinnati bombarded the forts at the mouth of Havana harbour on Thursday. Three hundred shots were fired, doing great…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War and Prices of Produce
THE sudden rise in the price of wheat and flour illustrates one of the direct results of a war between two leading usual Po[?]ers, like Spain and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Cuban War. Latest Cablegrams. London
THE cruisers New York, Puritan and Cincinitti were today engaged in bombarding the forts at the month of Havana harbour. Altogether 300 shots were fired by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →America and Spain Procuress of the War
The Havana batteries opened fire on the American blockading squadron on Saturday. “La Republique Francoise.” a Paris journal, consider that an Anglo American alliance would…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Cuban War. Latest Cablegrams. London
The Spanish Admiral admits suffering great loss in the battle at Manilla, the defeat of his fleet being a virtual disaster. It is rumored that two American ships were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War. (By telegraph and otherwise.) London Thursday 28
Three American warships bombarded Matanz[?] 45 miles eastward of Havana, for nearly an hour yesterday, with the view of preventing the construction of earthworks…
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