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The wars & local soldiers, 1854

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Declaration of War

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 6 May 1854 · page 2

THE arrival of the S. and M. Packet Company's steamer "Hellespont" on Monday morning, brought us Melbourne journals containing the confirmation of our…

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Preparations for War

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 6 May 1854 · page 2

On the evening bef[?]re the Crest of the Wave sailed from Liverpool, (viz., on the 10th Feb.,) news reached that port, by electric telegraph, to the effect, that Admiral Sir Charles Napier was…

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The War in Europe

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 6 May 1854 · page 6

The Calonge Gazette of the 8th instant, publishes the following telegraphic despatch:— "VIENNA, February 7.—We have to-day received the intelligence that, on the 5th instant, a…

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Declaration of War. European News to the 11Th of February

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 6 May 1854 · page 4

By the fine ship Crest of the Wave, which anchored in the Bay yesterday morning, we are in receipt of European intelligence to the evening of the 11th February…

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Later and Highly Important News! Declaration of War by Great Britain and France Against Russia

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 6 May 1854 · page 10

News from England to the 11th of February, brought to Sydney by the Hellespont steamer from Melbourne. The Crest of the Wave, clipper ship, has arrived…

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The Funds—the Czar—the War. (From the Daily News, February 8.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 May 1854 · page 3

THOUGH the Minister of Foreign Affairs tells us that negotiations with the Czar are at an end—though Baron Brunnow and M. Kisseleff leave London and Paris—that sensitive test of public feeling, the Stock…

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The War in the East, and Its Political Contingencies. (From the North British Review.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 May 1854 · page 3

WE cannot wonder at the nervous anxiety exhibited by all the great powers of Western Europe to prevent the dispute between Russia and Turkey from culminating in a war, nor their desire, on almost any terms,…

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The War in Europe

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 13 May 1854 · page 10

The Cologne Gazette of the 8th inst., publishes the following telegraphic despatch:--'VIENNA, Feb, 7.--We have to-day received the intelligence that, on the 5th instant, a sanguinary…

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Preparations for War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 May 1854 · page 2

The naval enrolled out-pensioners of Greenwich have been called on to serve, and all under 60 years of age, capable of bearing arms, were surveyed for service on the 14th instant, at the various ports…

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The War Budget. House of Commons, March 6

Empire · Friday 19 May 1854 · page 2

The House having resolved itself into a committee of ways and means, the CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER brought forward the "consideration of the financial siate of the…

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War

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 20 May 1854 · page 5

We do not pretend to make light of the horrors concomitant upon war, and fain would we welcome the advent of that promised era, when the sword shall be turned into a pruning-hook, and when the lion shall lie down with the lamb…

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Preparation for War

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 20 May 1854 · page 3

The naval enrolled out-pensioners of Greenwich have been called on to serve, and all under 60 years of age, capable of bearing arms, were surveyed for service on the 14th instant, at the various ports…

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WAR. Dublin, March 7th, 1853

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 May 1854 · page 11

War being at length determined upon, and England and France in downright earnest, preparations for chastising the insolence of the Czar are making with a hearty goodwill. The…

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War Versus Reform. (From the Economist, March 4.)

Empire · Saturday 20 May 1854 · page 3

We scarcely think that the arguments of those who object to the carrying on a Reform Bill and European war pari passu have quite been done Jutice to or fairly met by those Who have…

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The Empire. Saturday, May 20, 1853. the People's War

Empire · Saturday 20 May 1854 · page 4

THE intelligence from Europe by the last and the two or three previous mails has presented an account of only one side of the preparations for war. We know in…

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The War in the East. (From the Times.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 May 1854 · page 2

THE time is now come when the near approach of the season for naval and military operations, and the establishment of a complete understanding between the four great powers of Europe opposed to the…

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War with Russia

Empire · Tuesday 23 May 1854 · page 2

In pursuance of a requisition signed by a number of influential gentlemen, and advertised in the daily newspapers and on placards extensively posted about the city, a meeting of the citizens…

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Provision Fou Soldiers Wives

Empire · Friday 26 May 1854 · page 3

A meeting, which was numerously attended, was held at Willis's Kooms, St. Jamos's, March 7, for the purpose of considering what stops should be taken for furthering the objects of an…

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War

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 27 May 1854 · page 1

To deny that war is a frightful calamity, would be to give the lie to what all history unfolds and all experience confirms. Yet it is not an unmitigated evil. There are principies of action and…

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The War

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 27 May 1854 · page 1

WE, of the present generation, have been accustomed to look on an European war of nations as a thing wholly of the past—a thing which had gone out along with pigtails and powder and the slow locomotion of stage…

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