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The wars & local soldiers, 1851

29 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 2

English Extracts. the War Medal Dinner to the Duke of Richmond. (From the Daily News, June 23.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 November 1851 · page 3

[?] Saturday evening, the dinner given by the [?] offers subscribers to the testimonial [?]ted to his Grace the Duke of Richmond, [?] taken of the high and grateful sense…

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English Extracts. La Plata and Brazil. (From the Daily News, July 12.) Preparations for War by Rosas

Empire · Saturday 15 November 1851 · page 3

The royal Brazilian mail packet, Tay, Captain Chapman, from the Brazils, arrived at Southampton yesterday, and landed her mails under the charge of Lieut. Seriven, R.N., Admiralty…

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The Model Opera. The Neglected Nursery Maid: Or, the Suductive Soldier. a Grand Military and Domestic Opera, in Two Acts. ACT 11

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 22 November 1851 · page 3

Scene l.—The interior of an apartment in Todgers Villa at Paddington. Todgers discovered reading the Sydney Morning Herald, and Mrs Todgers employed on crolchet work…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Thursday, December 18, 1851. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am 1." the Kafir War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 December 1851 · page 2

OUR previous summaries of events connected with this disastrous war extended to the commencement of September. From the journals just received by us,…

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The Kafir War

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 20 December 1851 · page 3

On the 8th of September, Colonel Fordyce, with a force of about 600 men, of whom about half were regular troops, chiefly of the 74th regiment, proceeded in the Kroeme Heights,…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Monday, December 22, 1851. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am 1." Latest From India. Rumours of War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 December 1851 · page 2

WE have Calcutta papers to the beginning of October. They contain long extracts from Sydney journals respecting our gold. But the most important matter is the…

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India—latest News—war

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 25 December 1851 · page 12

The Bengal Hurkarus of the 20th September, contains a long article, in which the probabilities of war are gravely spoken of. Cachmere is pointed out as being a locality in which a spirit of…

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Miscellaneous Extracts. Uses of the Caffre War. (From the Spectator, August 23.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 December 1851 · page 3

If is a great mistake to attack the Caffre war, or any other warfare of the kind. The war is immensely useful: it is a school of arms, without which our military men would be in very…

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The Soldier's Dream

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 27 December 1851 · page 4

THE dark veil of night, o'er the blood steaming plain. Brought rest for awhile to the weary and worn: And faint on the breeze from the wounded in pain, Stole sadly each groan, in its anguish forlorn…

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