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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
48 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 3
It is a great mistake to attack the Caffro war, or any other warfare of the kind. The war is immeusely useful: it is a school of arms, without which our military men would be in very…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Nobody sees a battle. The common soldier fires away amidst a smoke-mist, or hurries on to the charge in a crowd which hides everything from him. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →AFTER a service of 40 years, Mr. Lawrence Sullivan has retired from the War-Office upon a pension. He has been succeeded by Mr. Hawes, the Under Secretary to the Colonies…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is a saying of statesmen that by every single act of patronage they make ten bitter enemies and one ungrateful friend. If this be true, a distribution of 3,000 prizes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint the following officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers to take Rank by Brevet as undermentioned. The Commissions to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint the following Officers of the Royal Marines to take rank by Brevet as undermentioned. The Commissions to be dated 11th Nov., 1851…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN our former summary of the operations on the frontier, our dates were to the end of September. It was then our painful duty to record the disastrous events which occurred…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BY the way of Adelaide, we haye received files of Cape Town, and Graham's Town journals to the 13th of December, being one week later than our previous advices…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Considering the character of the intelligence which has reached this country from Australia and from the Cape of Good Hope during the last two months, it is not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BY the receipt of Cape Town and Graham's Town papers to the 17th of January, we are enabled to continue our summary of the military operations on the frontier, the most…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Although we plead guilty to very imperfect sympathies with the views of the Peace and Aborigines Protection Societies,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WE have received Cape Town and Graham's Town journals to the 28th January, and we have the gratification to announce that every prospect appeared, at that date, of an early…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BY letters and papers received yesterday, we are truly happy to learn that every prospect appeared, at their dates, (28th Jan.) of a cessation of the Kafir War. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →History of the War in Afghanistan, From the Unpublished Lettes and Journals of Political and Military Officers employed in Afganistan throughout the entire period of British…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ON every hand the indications of approaching convulsions, threatening to the peace of Europe and the world, thicken upon us. Louis Napoleon has secured himself as the master of France; he…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IT is hard to speculate, at the present moment, on the prospects of Europe and of the world on the continuance of a general peace. There are three things…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OUR previous advices from the Cape frontier apprised us of the operations of the British forces to the beginning of February, when Sir Harry Smith had publicly announced his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CONSIDERING the character of the intelligence which has reached this country from Australia and the Cape of Good Hope during the last two months, it is not a matter of surprise that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WE have received Cape Town journals to the 28th of February last, being four days later tham our previous aduces. Our last extracts from the Cape Town papers included Sir…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE Duke of Wellington has delivered himself with great perspicuity of a formal judgment on the Caffre war and its prospects. His Grace absolutely acquits Sir Harry Smith of…
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