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The wars & local soldiers, 1890

3 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Is War Looming?

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 12 February 1890 · page 2

The statement that France intends to build next year 10 ironelads, and 11 crusiers besides many torpedo, boats, is an illustration of the extent of which the nations of the…

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"An Old Soldier."

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 2 August 1890 · page 2

WE have always allowed the use of the news columns of this paper to correspondents who desired to write upon any subject of interest. But, although disposed to exercise every…

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A Horrible Incident of War

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 3 September 1890 · page 4

"I HAD just sold my commission as lieutenant in the British army when the FrancoPrussian war opened," said an Englishman a few day ago to some friends at the bar of…

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