Military Promotions. War-off[?]r, Oct. 9, 1820
4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards---Lieutenant Henry P[?]leaze, from half pay, to be Lieutenant, vice Edmund F. Dayrell, who exchanges, receiving the difference…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1827
15 stories in Sydney's papers
War Del---uded. "What Say Ye to This---beast?" Cobbett
WE are not by any means astonished that Robert Wardell, of the Australian, has vented his ire, and his spleen, and his what not, at the circumstance and his…
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On to battle! Grecians on! Think of all your sires have done; Dream, oh dream of Marathon And glorious Thermopyl[?]!…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Important News. War with Spain
Last night the brig Haweis, Captain Dibbs, arrived from the Mauritius and Hobart Town. She brings News of the arrival at the latter place of the Tiger, Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War with Spain. House of Commons--11th December
Mr. Canning acquainted the House, that he had a Message to deliver from His Majesty to the House of Commons. THE SPEAKER -- Please to bring it up…
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Extracts from the official communications received to-day by this Ministry. Brigadier Azeredo writes from Mortagon, under date of the 10th instant, as follows:â"I have the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →(From the London Gazette of Saturday, Jan. 2.) War Office, Jan. 1, 1827
GARRISONS.—Field-Marshal William Earl Harcourt, G. C. B. to be Governor of Plymouth, v. Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington, K. G. appointed Constable of the Tower of London. General Sir William Keppel, G. C. B. to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →English Miscellanies. Provocatives to War
MORNING HERALD.—It is distressing to every friend of humanity to see the means resorted to by certain individuals to excite the people of England and France against one another. Though some writers and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →From the London Gazette, April 3. War Office, April 2
1st Regiment of Dragoon Guards.—To be Lieutenants.—Lieutenant Dunbar Thomas Barton, from the half-pay, vice James Barill Danb[?]z, who exchanges, receiving the difference…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The London Gazettes. Tuesday, April 10. War Office, April 9, 1827
1st Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Captain John Potter Macqueen, from the half-pay, to be Captain, vice Thomas Nutcombe Q[?]icke, who exchanges, receiving the difference…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Report of an Action Between Two French Corvettes. and Two American Sloops of War
By the schooner Dart, which arrived this morning from Liverpool, Nova Scotia, we learn that a very serious engagement had taken place between two French Corvettes and two American sloops of war, in the Gulph of St…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →South Seas. (From an American Paper.) Interesting Letter From the South Seas. United States Sloop of War, Pracock, Papeete, Tah[?], Aug. 18
"By my several letters from Lima and Guaryaquil you were informed of our contemplated cruise among the South Sea Island, for the protection of our extensive whale fishery, in this remote quarter of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Army. War Office, 4th of June 1827. Memorandum
His Majestry has been pleased to approve of the undermentioned Regiments hearing on their colours and appointments the several words stated against those, in addition to any other badges or devices which may…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Original Poetry. the Soldier and His Dog, a Poetical Sketch
THE warrior youth and his dog are come Where the banner of war is unfurl'd; It had eat from his hand in his mother's home, And had follow's him through the world…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Army. Military Promotions and Appointments. [From the London Gazette of August 14.] War-office, Aug 13, 1827
2d DragoonsâCapt. J. F S. Clarke, from the half pay, to be Captain, vice A. W. Wyndham, who exchanges, receiving the difference. 3d Light DragoonsâGentleman Cadet R. Coghlan,…
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