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The wars & local soldiers, 1836

12 stories in Sydney's papers

South African Statistics. the Caffer War

The Colonist · Thursday 28 January 1836 · page 2

AUGUST 19, 1835.—We have just seen a few extracts from a pamphlet published in the shape of a letter to the Earl of Aberdeen (late) Secretary of State for the Colonies, by the Rev. William…

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South African Statistics. the Caffer War

The Colonist · Thursday 4 February 1836 · page 3

OCTOBER 21, —The Caffer War is now fairly over and we trust that the policy to which it owed origin and continuance, will expire with it. We mean the policy of seizing every "favourable…

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Select Poetry. the Wounded Soldier

The Australian · Friday 4 March 1836 · page 4

He laid upon the red-war plain With sightless starting eye; The falchion keen had found his brain, And yet be could not die!…

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War

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 28 April 1836 · page 4

PARIS, DECEMBER. I.—The Moniteur of this day cntains, as you will aee, the most menacing announcement that has emanated from the French Government since the revolution of 1830/ This…

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Select Poetry. the Wounded Soldier

The Australian · Tuesday 3 May 1836 · page 4

He laid upon the red-war plain With sightless starting eye; The falchion keen had found his brain, And vet he could not die:—…

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Major Downing, on the War with France. To my old fileml Mr. Dwight, of the New York Daily Advertiser. Washington Dec. 6, 1834

The Sydney Herald · Monday 16 May 1836 · page 4

I suppose you have read the message long atore this, and begin to think teh lime aint fur off when we shall all on us be called on to give the Frenchmen a stirtin' up for not paying us that just debt they owe…

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Poetry. Hailing a Portuguese Man-of-war

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 1 September 1836 · page 4

A sail!—heave to, small commodore, And put thy helm a-lee That nearer, from our deck, we may Thy fairy frigate see…

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English Extracts. (From the latest London Papers.) the Cry for War

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 13 September 1836 · page 3

The honorable member for Brimingham should be a little more discreet in the display of his taste for war, or it will be…

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The [?] of Civil War

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 20 September 1836 · page 4

As hitherto the Carlist prisoners were shot as rebels, and the Christions suffered death by way of reprisal.Zamalacarre gui, anxious to put to an end this dreadful…

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The Army. Promotions, Appointments, &c. War Office, April 22, 1836

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 22 September 1836 · page 4

2d Regt. of Life Guards—Lieut. F. M. Marlin to be Captain, by purobase, vice Bulkelev, who retires; Sub-Lieut. Hon. Major Henniker, to be Lieut., by purchase, vice Marlin…

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Dreadful Affray. Two Men Killed and Several Wounded

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 10 November 1836 · page 3

"The following is from an eye-witness of what he relates; we give it in his own words:—"The Roman Catholic burial place Glassnevin, near this city, was the…

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Lord Glenelg and General D'Urban on the late Caffre War

The Sydney Monitor · Friday 16 December 1836 · page 4

The papers lately printed by order of the House of Commons, and just distributed relative to the "Caffre war and the death of Hintza, "cannot fail to produce a strong…

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