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The wars & local soldiers, 1849

23 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 2

South Sea Islands. War Between Manono and Aana

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 17 February 1849 · page 4

In the REPORTER of March last, we noticed the offence taken by Manone and her allies at certain proceedings and speeches of Aana and Atua, and the threatening attitude the former had consequently assumed. We then intimated our fears that there would be great…

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[?] Governor of Western Australia Wounded by Natives. (From the perth [?].)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 February 1849 · page 3

The return of the expedition, a most serious [?] was made on the small force employed, the particulars of which we are indibted to [?] of Mr. Bland. On Monday, the…

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The War in India

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 March 1849 · page 2

BY the same arrival, as above mentioned, we have the progress of the War in the Punjaub. The only item extracted by the Melbourne Herald is the following:…

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The War in Hungary. (From the Times' Correspondent.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 April 1849 · page 4

VIENNA, DECEMBER 20.—The Wiemer Zeitung of to-day publishes at last the two Imperial edicts relating to Hungary. They are both dated the 2nd of this month, the day of the…

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The War in India

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 26 May 1849 · page 7

IMPORTANT news from India has this week been received, relative to the war in the Punjaub, and notwithstanding the glowing colours in which the despatches of the Commander-in-Chief are written, it appears that…

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Prospects of War -- a Russian Invasion

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 26 May 1849 · page 9

Matters on the European Continent continue to look as gloomy as at any period since the commencement of the present disastrous year. It is now confidently asserted in well informed circles that the hordes of Russia…

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The War in India. Battle of the [?]Helum

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 26 May 1849 · page 2

The combined British and Native forces under Lord Gough, Commander in Chief, gave battle to the Sikhs, under Rajah Shere Sing, near the river Jhelum, on the 13th January, and gained a…

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The Seat of War. (From the Straits Times, March 26.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 June 1849 · page 3

We have received late accounts from the Punjaub. Another and more decisive battle has been fought, in which the enemy has been completely discomfited, with heavy loss…

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Arbitration, in Place of War

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 30 June 1849 · page 8

Public meetings have been held in several of the towns of Yorkshire, and one is to be held in Leeds on Monday week, to petition Parliament in favour of every effort being made by our Government to substitute…

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End of the Sikh War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 July 1849 · page 2

THE Canton papers received last night, contain the glorious intelligence that the Sikh War was at an end, SHERE SING having surrendered…

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The War in Italy. (From the Times, March 20.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 July 1849 · page 3

THE termination of the armistice concluded last year between the Austrian and Piedmontese armies has been determined upon by the existing Sardmian Government, and the…

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The War in Italy

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 14 July 1849 · page 9

The termination of the armistice concluded last year between the Austrian and Piedmontese armies has been determined upon by the existing Sardinian Government, and the courier who conveyed the formal announcement…

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Foreign Intelligence. Re-commencement of the War in Northern Italy. Genoa March 14

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 14 July 1849 · page 8

" War is declared ! Illuminate your houses !" has been posted in large characters on every wall in the city to-day. There has also been placarded a manifesto of the Commissary Buffa, in which he modestly takes credit to…

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English Exiracts. the War in the Punjab. (E[?]tracled from the Journal of a S[?]llern in the 2nd Europeans). Camp Chillian walls

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 July 1849 · page 3

JANUARY 15,—Two days have passed over, and, thank God, I am here to tell you we have had as severe an action as over was fought in India. But I will go back, and give…

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Miscellaneous Extraits. the War Between Manono and Aana. (From the Samoan Reporter, for March.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 August 1849 · page 3

WE gave an account in our last number of the posi[?]on of the war parties, and their proceedings up to the night attack on Luti[?]. Six months have passed since that report; various…

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English News. the War in the Punjaub. Housa of Lords, April 23. Speech of the Duna of WELLINGTON on the motion that the thanks of the House of Lords be given to the Indian Army

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 August 1849 · page 3

THE object for which your lordships have been summoned here to-day is to take into consideration eho propriety of voting your thanks to the army which has brought so much honour…

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The Papal Intervention. War with Austria and Naples

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 September 1849 · page 3

Events of an opposing nature succeed each other so rapidly here, that it is very difficult for one to keep you well and truly informed. I know not whether we are at peace or at war, or whether this martial array by…

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War in Italy. Official Report

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 September 1849 · page 3

Since the 29th the Commander-in-Chief of the army of the Republic. General Avezano, Minister of War, was perfectly informed of the movements of the enemy by the reports of our light troops, and their accounts…

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Arbitration Instead of War

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 10 November 1849 · page 8

"WILD visionary, impracticable, Utopian," shout, in full chorus, the entire body of the British oligarchy, supported by their thundering organ the Times. The recitative, executed only by the leaders. proceeds in a…

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Foreign Enlistment Act

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 November 1849 · page 4

THE Central Criminal Court was occupied during Thursday, Friday, and Sanirday last week, in trying a misdemeanour under the Foreign Enlistment Act. Franco Mnccagnone…

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