The French War Monomania
Surely the brave, acute, and clever French nation is labouring for the moment under a most mischievous monomania. They are mad after conquests and colonies--mad after the very things…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1845
25 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 2
Lines on the Death of a British Soldier
Awake the doric reed, awake The lyre, a warrior's dirge to sing; Pour forth their strains to every gale, Till echo's clamorous clarions ring…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pet-tish Peter Blue, and the Symondsian Ships of War. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald
GENTLEMEN,—Will you allow me to intrude in your columns, and on the attention of the nautical world, as FINAL on this subject; at least for some months to come?…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sydney Morning Herald. Monday, June 16, 1845. "Sworn to no master, of no sect am I." the War in New Zealand
THE painful and humilitating intelligence communicated to our readers on Friday respecting the operations in what may now be called the seat of war, was neither more…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sydney Morning Herald. Tuesday, June 17, 1845. "Sworn to no master, of no sect am I." the War in New Zealand
YESTERDAY afternoon His Excellency the COMMANDER OF THE FORCES, what is termed "put in orders" a letter from Governor FITZROY to Lieutenant-Colonel HULME, on…
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A BILL for the Annotation of Texas to the United States has passed the Semite. This Bill has very much divided public opinion in the States, and what the consequence of…
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WE had space in our last number to mention only in a brief manner, that a Bill for the Annexation of Texas to the United States had passed the Senate. This Bill has very much…
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The annexation of Texas to the United States still causes considerable agitation both in America and in England, and there appears to be every probability that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The "Herald's" View of the New Zealand War
[The following article was written at the time when the articles of our two cotemporaries, which it criticises, appeared. A month's late English news, and Lord Stanley's Despatches…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Evils of War--reflections of a Wounded Officer
I found that I had been carried into the town and placed in the Military hospital. My first impulse was, to examine whether any of my brave fellows had shared my misfortune; but all around me were French,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Literature. the Soldier
'Twas glorious day, worth a warriors telling, Two kings had fought, and the fight was done, When 'midst the shout of victory swelling, A soldier fell on the field he won…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Morning Chronicle. Wednesday, August 13, 1845. Impending War Between England and the United States
The most absorbing and exciting topic in the English papers, is the inaugural speech of President Polk on the opening of Congress at Washington, in which he descants with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Select Poetry. Lines on a Dead Soldier
Wreck of a warrior pass'd away, Thou form without a name! Which thought and felt but yesterday And dreamt of future fame…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Morning Chronicle. Saturday, August 16, 1845. War or Peace.—the Difficulties Which Beset the Perilous Path of England's Foreign Policy. "When England is at war, the whole globe is convulsed by the country" Lord Chatham
SINCE the publication of our last number, containing a digest of the important news from Europe and America, which reached us by the Thistle, we have had the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Morning Chronicle. Wednesday, August 27, 1845. Persecution of Catholic Soldiers
WE have heard a report which is almost incredible, and to which we are reluctant to give credence; yet as it has reached us through a channel that would seem to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Original Correspondence. the Intuitive Surveyor of the Navy, and His Non-scientific Ships of War. To the Editor of the Australian
SIR.—It may, perchance, be within compass of recollection, that, some time in February last, I communicated to your Journal, a general description of the U. S. corvette…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Are the Americans Prepared for War?
WE have asked ourselves this question several times since the publication of Mr. President Polk's inaugural address to the people of the United Slates. And in pondering on the answer, we have…
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IN the Australian of yesterday, we find the following communication :— To the Editor of the Australian. SIR,—Will you have the goodness to contradict,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Civil War in Syria
A war of extermination is raging in this part of the world, between the Druses and the Christians; and the horrors that are perpetrated on both sides are dreadful. Throughout the length and breadth…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Morning Chronicle. Wednesday, November 5, 1845. Governor General of the Southern Colonies—probabilities of War—the Pacific Ocean
WHEN our attention was attracted by the following article occupying a conspicuous place in a recent number of our respectable contemporary the Australian, we…
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