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The wars & local soldiers, 1835

13 stories in Sydney's papers

The Late Mr. Coleridge a Common Soldier

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 15 January 1835 · page 4

The Athen[?]um relates the following striking incident in the early life of the late Mr. Coleridge:—" We have reason to believe that during the early part of…

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Irish Soldier

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 29 January 1835 · page 4

During the war in Portugal and while the army was on its march to Merida, an Irish Soldier having drank rather freely, quitted the ranks, He had…

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Discharged Soldiers Grants. To the Editor at the Australian

The Australian · Friday 13 February 1835 · page 3

SIR,—In 1829 a man belonging to the Staff Corps, named Robinson, received a grant of land of forty acres in the Parish of Maitland, he being discharged without a pension, it being in lieu of passage home…

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Extracts From " a Soldier's Ltfe." (From the Literary Gazette.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 10 March 1835 · page 4

LAST DYING SPEECH AND CONFESSION OF A NEGRO CHILD.—The following is a specimen of the conversation of tho Mulattoes; the speakers are two women of that…

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Remembrance of an Old Soldier. Rose D'amour

The Sydney Times · Saturday 14 March 1835 · page 4

IT is a groat disadvantage to a cavalry regiment to be scattered up and down in country quarters, with here a troop and there another troop, nay, perhaps even…

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[?]C[?]nes Ot War

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 25 April 1835 · page 4

THE BATTLE OF ALEXANDRIA.—On the 20th of March, I was the general of the day; und alter visiting all the advanced posts, remained with the left…

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The Life of a Soldier

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 28 April 1835 · page 4

Our Field offic[?] [?] seen much service, and had a long experience of the British Army under various conditions, He joined it as a Militia ensign in 1793, when barely…

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Reflections in Retirement by an Old Soldier. a Soldier's Life

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 June 1835 · page 4

What is the soldier's Life? That of the greatest vicissitudes, of pains and pleasures, of pride and privations of hardships and triumphs, of dangers and of glory…

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Prospects of American and French War

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 25 June 1835 · page 2

Every thing connected with the domestic and foreign policy of a young and noble nation, cannot fail both to interest and instruct. The diplomacy of foreign…

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The Soldier's Wife

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 11 August 1835 · page 4

"Within a very few miles of Edinburgh, there lives an old woman, known among her humble neighbours by the name of " Auld Susan." She was the daughter of a small…

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The Soldier and the Sailor; Or, William and Waterloo

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 19 September 1835 · page 4

Doctor Goldsmith says, with his usual point and truth, that opposition, or contrast, is one of the strongest figures of rhetoric: and to apply this remark to the…

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Soldiers and Convicts. To the Editors of the Sydney Herald

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 15 October 1835 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—I perceive that one of the Sydney Gazette gang has taken occasion, in a late paper, to censure the editor of the Sydney Monitor for some observations made by that…

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Soldiers and Convicts. To the Editors of The Sydney Herald

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 17 October 1835 · page 2

GENTLEMEN.—I perceive that one of the Sydney Gazette, gang has taken occasion, in a late paper, to cebsure he editor of the Sydney Monitor for some observations made by that…

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