Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← The wars & local soldiers, all years

Sydney · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1854

372 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 19

The War, Prayer

Empire · Saturday 23 December 1854 · page 5

O God! thick shadows are around us glooming, The red war clouds sink lower on the world; At intervals the sullen cannon booming Reverberates, and banners are unfurled…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Well, How About the War?

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 December 1854 · page 4

When Catholic France and Protestant England stand shoulder to shoulder in the field in the common cause of justice and humanity—when the Pope of Rome calls his Austrian children to…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Original Correspondence. the War. To the Editors of the Freeman's Journal

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 December 1854 · page 11

GENTLEMEN—I think that the next English Mail will bring us still more delightful news from the Baltic. Napier remains, it is said, though the French fleets are called home, and we…

Continued on Trove, page 11 →

Civil War. (From the Argus, December 18.)

Empire · Monday 25 December 1854 · page 5

In the record of the various events of the fatal morning of the 3rd instant, few things are so calculated to strike attention as the case of the unfortunate Powell, the inquest upon whose body…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

An Indian Battle. the Massacre at Fort Laramie. Full particulars—Lieutenant-Grattan, twenty-one soldiers and the United States interpreter killed— the savages refuse to allow their bodies to be buried —50,000 dollars of the Amercan Fur Company's goods appropriated by the Indians. (From the St. Louis Democrat, September 13.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 December 1854 · page 8

WE have received through the medium of Mr. Lefroy Iott, one of the Sioux interpreters, who come as an express messenger from the scene of the disaster, the full particular. of the late massacre of United States…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Threatened Renewal of the Kaffir War. We regret to state that there was every prospect of a renewal of the Kaffir war. The Zuid Africaan expresses itself upon the subject thus:—

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 December 1854 · page 3

The dreary prospect of a Kaffir war, if not on our immediate frontier, at least in a neighbouring christian state, is again beginning to darken the horizon. People speak of the tedium of a thrice-told tale; but can…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Thb War in Asia. (From CorresPondents of the Morning [?]erald.) The[?]de, August [?]O

Empire · Friday 29 December 1854 · page 3

The routes from Rboi to Erzeroum are always infested with Kurdes and Bashi Buzouks, and the caravans which come from Persia do not begin the journoy…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Memoranda Illustrative of the War[?] [Selected from Private and Published Letters.] (Home News, October 3.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 December 1854 · page 4

OBSTINACY AND IMBECILITY OF TH ETURKISH COMMANDERS IN ASIA —It is necessry to mention that on the 3rd of August an aid-de-camp arrived from Bagazid with the double intelligence of the defeat of 8000…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

The War

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 30 December 1854 · page 7

THE next mail will put us in possession of an engagement between the Turks and Russians in Bessarabia, beyond the river Pruth. The Russian array was at our last dates…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Problems of the War

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 30 December 1854 · page 5

Among the many things which confer abiding interest on the present war, not the least is its predominantly experimental character. Ordinarily, when two or more great belligerents grapple each other, though the…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Well How About the War?

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 30 December 1854 · page 11

When Catholic France and Protestant England stand shoulder to shoulder in the field in the common cause of justice, and humanity -- when the Pope of Rome calls his Austrian children to fly to the rescue of the Crescent from the…

Continued on Trove, page 11 →

News From the War. Seven Days' Later. Sebastapol Is Not Taken

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 December 1854 · page 1

THE steamship London, Captain WATTS, has brought on from Melbourne the intelligence received there by the Champion of the Seas and the Swallow. The papers were to the 11th of…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →