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The wars & local soldiers, 1855

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The War

Empire · Saturday 29 September 1855 · page 4

CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, JUNE 20.—They say we are preparing again for another attempt; but that cannot be until we receive more powder from Malta, unless we drain ourselves…

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Latest News. (By the Electric and International Telegraph.) LONDON, Wednesday Evening. the War

Empire · Saturday 29 September 1855 · page 2

The Gazette contains a despatch from Lord Raglan, with an enclosure from Major-General Eyre, and a list of casualties from the 18th to the 21st June…

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Latest: Foreign Intelligence. the War. (From the second edition of the Liverpool Daily Post, July 5.) Daily Post Office Thursday 9 a.m

Empire · Saturday 29 September 1855 · page 2

[?] The following despatch has been transmitted by the Electric and International Telegraph Companies' Intelligence Department, London:…

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[Second Edition.] Arrival of the Champion of the Seas, with Mails of July 5. Important War Intelligence. Reverses of the Allies. Reported Entrance Into Sebastopol. Death of Lord Raglan. Passing of the New South Wales Constitution Act. Empire Office, Saturday, 6 p.m

Empire · Saturday 29 September 1855 · page 2

BY the arrival of the Steamship City of Sydney, this evening, we are placed in possession of intelligence from England to July 5, brought to Melbourne by the mail packet Champion of…

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The Emperor Napoleon and the War

Empire · Tuesday 2 October 1855 · page 3

Tho Moniteur, July 3, publishes the following leading article:- " The Emperor has convoked the Chamber in an extraordinary session to make a new appeal to their…

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The War. Despatch From Lord Raglan. Before Sebastopol, June 19

Empire · Tuesday 2 October 1855 · page 5

MY LORD—I informed your lordship, on the 16th, that new batteries had been completed, and that in consequence the allies would be enabled to resume the offensive against Sebastopol with the atmost vigour…

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The War

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 6 October 1855 · page 8

THE ever memorable 18th of June will henceforward mark in the pages of history one of our most glorious victories, and one of our saddest defeats. On the morning of that day in the present…

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Aspect of the War

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 6 October 1855 · page 9

It is now vainly attempted to conceal the immense importance of the repulse sustained by the Allies on the anniversary of Waterloo; and they are said to be again approaching the Malakhoff…

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Incidents of the War. a Mournful Mission

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 6 October 1855 · page 4

On my return to England, amongst other commissions I had undertaken, was that of carrying to his mother the sword, papers, &c,, of a very young officer whom I had visited when dying from…

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Latest News. the War. London, Wednesday Evening

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 6 October 1855 · page 7

The Gazette contains a despatch from Lord Raglan, with an enclosure from Major-General Eyre, and a list of casualties from the 18th to the 21st June…

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Latest News of the War. Evacuation of Petropauloski

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 October 1855 · page 4

BY the arrival of the Telegraph steamer from Melbourne we are put in possession of highly important intelligence, via San Francisco, as to the operations of the allied squadron in the Pacific. The French brig…

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The Earl of Dundonald and the War. (To the Editor of the Times.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 October 1855 · page 3

SIR,—You ask, in a leading article of the 20th, "Can nothing be done to give us this summer, before the brief glories of an arctic solstice have waned again into the long night of winter, the opportunity of…

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State of the War. (From the Weekly Chronicle, June 30)

Empire · Friday 12 October 1855 · page 7

The public mind has had time to recover not only from the irration naturally felt at athe tidings of a cheek where a triumph had been expected, but from the far more justifiable resentment excited by hearing that the…

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The Siege of Sebastopol. War Department, July 6

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 October 1855 · page 8

LORD PANMURE presents his compliments to the Editor of The Times, and has great pleasure in transmitting the enclosed intelligence, which has reached him from General Simpson:—…

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The Generals of the Last War and This

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 13 October 1855 · page 11

Mr. Layard, in the House of Commons, on the 15th of June in his Speech upon Administrative Reform, gave the following singular report of the ages of our Generals in the last war, and those engaged in the present war: --…

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War From the Archaeological Point of View. (Fromy the Witness, June 13:)

Empire · Saturday 13 October 1855 · page 3

One effect of war is to invest places that have hitherto been little known with associations which make them interesting and famous. There was a time, for example, when the Bay of Salamis was no more distinguished than…

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Sir Charles Napier on the Government and the War. To the Editor of the Morning Advertiser

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 13 October 1855 · page 11

SIR, -- You ask why our squadron in the Baltic which did nothing to signify last year, is likely to do nothing this? The question is easily answered, via: -- Because Sir James Graham did not attend to the plans I sent him last June, and…

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The War in Asia

Empire · Tuesday 16 October 1855 · page 5
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

Kars advices of June 16th state that the demonstration in that town by the Russians had been repulsed, and that the assailants withdrew to Agoia Kalsh…

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The War

Empire · Friday 19 October 1855 · page 1

The Times, to-day, taken a more encouraging view of the aspects of the war. It says—We have gained upon Russia in her own territories, and in front of her strongest fortress. We have now in the Crimen a more numerous…

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