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The wars & local soldiers, 1832

12 stories in Sydney's papers

War Song of the Poles (Translated from the French by M. d'Arblan.)

The Australian · Friday 9 March 1832 · page 4

To arms, to anus ! The foe appears— Lo, near and nearer draws their hated breth; And hark! the drum! The Russians come, Drown, Poland, drown in blood thy tears!…

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The Origin of Darling's Chaining Sudds and Thompson, Free British Soldiers

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 31 March 1832 · page 3

MR. EDITOR.—In the year 1827 Sir Lowry Cole, Governor of the Mauritius, issued an ordinance to regulate the weight of the chains and fetters, masters being authorised by the…

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DEATH of the Soldier, Brennan. "Soldier rest, thy warfare's o'er— Sleep the sleep that knows no breaking; Dream of battle fields no more,"

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 10 April 1832 · page 2

IT seldom occurs that grand military spectacles in times of peace give rise to painful emotions. The lengthened line of soldiers, moving as if one soul…

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The Army. War Office, Dec. 16, 1832

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 18 April 1832 · page 3

39th Regt.—Lieut Meyrick to be Captain, v. Barker, dec. Ensign C. B. Lloyd to be Lieut. v. Meyrick. Ensign L. Maule to be Lieut. v. Berkley, dec. R.S…

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Veteran Settlers. Extract front Leading Article of Sydney Gazette, May 3rd, on the Capabilities of old Soldiers as Settlers, and reply thereto, as affecting the Veterans loc[?]d at Bathurst:—

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 May 1832 · page 2

"It will be admitted that they are generally worn out by hard service, fond of tbe bottle, indisposed to laborious exertion, as ignorant of farming as of the Greek language, and unfitted, b[?] the [?]ahit[?]…

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The Army. Military Promotions & Exchanges. War-office, March 9, 1832

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 June 1832 · page 3

2d Regiment of Life Guards—To be Cornets and Sub-Lieutenants by purchase—Hon. Major Henniker, vice Squire, promoted, March 8[?] T. Ogilvy, gent., vice Fairlie, promoted, March 9…

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Advance Australia Sydney Gazette. Tuesday, July 17, 1832. "Dike, men nomou telos esti, nomos de archontos ergon Archon de eikon THEOU tou panta kosmountos.' "Justice to all impartial laws provide;— Impartial Laws are deemed a Ruler's pride; And Rulers who impartial Justice deal Are God's Vicegerents for the public weal." "Small Debts Courts, Courts of Requests Courts of CONSCIENCE:—Synonymous appellations these for the few scattered spots in which natural procedure has taken refuge from the war made upon Justice by learned harpies, under the command of the Dæmon of Chicane."

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 17 July 1832 · page 2

IN venturing to bring before the notice of the public the subject matter of the various legal enactments which from time to time occupy the attention of our…

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Original Correspondence. Classic War. To the Editors of the "Sydney Herald."

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 2 August 1832 · page 3

Gentlemen.—I beg leave to enter my decided protest against the Classic War that theatens to rage with unabated violence, in the columns of our Colonial Journals, to the serious injury of the…

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Tithe War

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 29 August 1832 · page 4

The campaign has opened in Ireland, as the reader will see, from the following account. The killed and wounded seem to be pretty numerous…

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English Extracts. Description of the Battle of Albuera. (From NAPIER'S Peninsular War.)

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 4 October 1832 · page 2

'During the night (15th May. 1811) Blake and Cole arrived with about sixteen thousand men; but so defective was the occupation of the ground, that Soult had no change to make in his plans from this…

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English Extracts. Tithe War in Ireland. Victory! Tithes A[?]olished—mr. Cermaine's Cullocks Released From Gaol—the Parsons Deaten—parson Whit [?] of 98 Overcome

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 3 November 1832 · page 3

CARLOW, MAY 28, 1832.—Only think of what Parson Whitty has done. The moment he discovered that Wellington took office, hat Instant the week Davine issued his mild and…

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Tithe War

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 21 November 1832 · page 2

We have no time to comment on the following accounts of the tithe campaiga. now going on in Ireland; and this is the more unnecessary. as much about the some will be going…

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