A War Song for the Nineteenth Century (Republished with a Note and additional Stanza.)
The march of Knowledge hasten, Charge onward, and be free! Before are Mercy, Justice, Truth, Our standard-bearers three!…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1854
372 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 19
The Empire. Monday, January 9, 1854. War
THE news from Europe, published in another column, confirms the intelligence of previous date, that war had been declared by Turkey. The division in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Arrivai of the Steamer Australian. News to October 15Th. Declaration of War!
The steamer Australian from London, October 15, with the English mails arrived at Melbourne on the 1st instant. By the Hellespont last evening we have the nine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Empire. Tuesday, January 10, 1854. the Prospect of War
THE question discussed in the English Journals is scarcely any longer whether there will be peace or war, but whether the conflagration can be prevented from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sydney Morning Herald. Wednesday, January 11, 1854. WAR
THE EMPEROR of the French is reported to have said that, however much he regretted that the peace of Europe should be broken, war "with an alliance" was preferable to peace…
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By the arrival of the Australian, steamer, at Melbourne, intelligence from Europe has been received to the 15th October, nine days later than our previous advices. The news of war between…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Die Is Cast—the Cry Is "War."
The storm that has been gathering over the political horison of Eastern Europe for these months back, has at last exploded in the PROCLAMATION OF WAR against the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Would England or Russia Be the Greater Loser by a War? to the People of England
Fellow Countrymen, -- A contemporary journal, which has put forward on the eastern question every species of contradiction, observes, in the midst of the most belligerent logic, that "A war…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Poets' Corner. Sonnets, On the British Soldiers who were lost in H. M. S. Birkenhead
With fearless front and serried ranks they meet The fatal foe whose victim never bleeds; As though the leaping waves were warlike steeds Bestrid by mortal riders who would fleet…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WAR. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
SIR,—Some folks make too great ado about the French in the Pacific; they have as good a right as we have to colonise these Islands, and surely it need not be told how we acquired our colonies, nearly all of them taken in just retribution from our enemy [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WAR. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald
SIR,—Among the many valuable contributions which are made by correspondents to your paper, I have been struck with one, under the above heading, in yesterday's paper, as being the best illustration of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Sydney Morning Herald. Friday, January 20, 1854. European News. Commencement of War!
THE P. and O. Company's large screw steamer, Madras, commanded by Captain Parfitt, formerly of the Shanghai, anchored soon after six o'clock yesterday evening, bringing news from…
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[The NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE has the following article on the (European) Eastern question.] The money changers of the Old World are in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Latest European News. Commencement of War!
The P. and O. Company's screw steamer, Madras, commanded by Captain Parfitt, formerly of the Shanghai, anchored soon after six o'clock on Thursday evening, bringing news from England to the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Russia and Turkey.--conditional Declaration of War
The prudence and forbearance exhibited by the Ottoman Government from the origin of its dispute with the Czar, were not abandoned even when the national pressure compelled the adoption of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Bell's Life in Sydney. Saturday, January 21, 1854. War
THE great problem is solved at last. The P. and O. Co.'s screw steamer, Madras, Captain Parfitt, which arrived on Thursday evening, brought English news…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sydney Morning Herald. Saturday, January 21, 1854. the War
WE are sensible of the great disadvantage under which we labour in commenting upon events whose magnitude must utterly defy our powers to analyse and speculate upon them; but the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Rumours
A CALCUTTA newspaper states that DOST MOHAMED KHAN, late sovereign of Affghanistan, has sold his services to the Russian Emperor, and purposes to try his fortune once more…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Soldier's Son; Or, the 'Triumph of Virtue
Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days "Shall I take your baggage, sir?" said an intelligent-looking boy to a traveller, who had just arrived at one of the principa hotels at B—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Ships of War. To the Editor of the Daily News
SIR—Your naval reporter has apparently [?]ted upon my suggestion to the public to take stock occasionally of its floating capital[?] and he has given as a catalogue of vessels lying at…
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