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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
39 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 2
We read with sadness the news which each succeeding mail brings us from Ireland. Such strange things have recently happened in countries of the internal condition of which we know comparatively little, that one is tempted to doubt whether in countries of which…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →EUROPE is indeed, as one of our contemporaries has said, "in a blaze." The struggle between absolutism and republicanism, which we so recently stated to be, in our, belief, pending, has begun with much vigor, and is likely,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →OUR immediate attention has for some time been so much engrossed by our domestic affairs that the question, so anxiously debated on the receipt of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →GENTLEMEN.--As [?] now appears beyond doubt that your conjecture respecting the rumour of war, was the correct one, namely, that the report was a mere ruse, would it not be well to find out the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Notwithstanding the predictions of the Government organs, the schemes of Government spies, and the preparations of Government and military martinets, there will not be civil war in Ireland. Any war rather than civil war. There is not a man with an ounce of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →It it strange to see two sach cities and such [?] of government, as Vienna and Milan, sending armies to engage is strite for their respective powers and pretension, when in reality…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A soldier's life—a soldier's life— A pack for his wardobe, and gun for his wife,— Drill'd—everlastingly drill'd for strife, Then "beat" to his quarters with drum and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →What meaneth this glittering pomp and show, Bedeck'd with the emblems of death and woo! Why march they so lightly and proudly by, While lingers tho tear in the mourners' eye?…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THAT the last Revolution in France was a social, not a political movement; that the miserable destitution of millions of her starving sons was the cause which led to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →I know not whether those who have so far followed this narrative have sufficiently impressed their minds with the miseries of Italy. Twice was Piedmont a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HEAD Quarters, Pes[?]hiera, June 26,—I have just returned from an excursion along the whole line of the Piedmontese army, extending from the vi[?]inity of Mantua to Rivoli, a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ADMIRAITY, JUNE 7.—The Lords Commissioners of the Admir[?]lty having referred to a committee of Flag Officers the consideration of the naval actions for which medals should be granted, in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Young soldier, whither goest thou? I go to combat for God, and for the altars of my native land. "May thy arms be blessed, young soldier!…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CABRERA entered Spoin on the 24th June, at seyen o'clock in the morning, by Pla de Salinas, followed by his aidcs-do-camp, a numerous staff, and an escort of cavalry. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE positions occupied by the army of Charles Albert, on the 21st of last month, were very similar to those occupied by Bonaparte in 1796, with the exception that the French then had possession of Verona. One…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NOTHING but the variety and attractions of our revolutions at home could have so completely diverted public attention from a certain revolution in the New World, which is even more…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The subject of these observations is now occupying much public attention, and every man is at liberty to express his opinions freely and independently. There was a time when the question of the disadvantages of war,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →IN Committee of Supply, on Wednesday, August 16, Mr. Disracli took the opportunity presented by the proposal of a vote of £57,500 for the expenses of the Foreign Secretary's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →OH, my son! my son! my soldier-son! Thou wert my this-worlds's all! They tell me thou art lost to me, In victory thou didst fall;…
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