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The wars & local soldiers, 1856

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Energetic War Preparations in Russia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 March 1856 · page 7

A corps of 10,000 men occupies Kaffa; 10,000 more have just arrived at Coula; and there are still about 20,000 Russians on the Circassian coast…

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Loss of a Sardinian War Steamer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 March 1856 · page 7
Also in Empire

A Sardinian war steamer, which was bringing to Constantinople a great number of sick from the ambulance at Balaclava, has foundered, and all on board perished…

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The Empire. Wednesday, March 5, 1856. War, or Diplomacy?

Empire · Wednesday 5 March 1856 · page 4

ON the departure of the Marco Polo from England with the recently arrived mail, nearly the whole of the British army in the Crimea was comfortably hutted in winter-quarters. The…

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The War. Peace Rumours.—convention with Denmark.— Napoleon's Schemes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 March 1856 · page 5

The news by this arrival consists mainly of peace rumours, but the public had no means of establishing their truth, and they are probably of little value It is a very noticeable circumstance that the…

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The Baltic. General Canrobert's Future Operations— Russian Council of War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 March 1856 · page 5

A telegraphic despatch of the 6th instant, from Nyborg (Viborg,) states that the united squadrons, under Admiral Dundas, were then passing the Belt, homewards…

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The Diplomatic Limits of the War. (From the Leader, November 24.)

Empire · Friday 7 March 1856 · page 2

The question between peace and war cannot be debated without reference to the disposition of the enemy. No doubt in Great Britain and in France pacific opinions spread and strengthen daily. But this…

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Latest News of the War. (From Our Own Cprres[pmdemt.] London, December 5, 1855

Empire · Friday 7 March 1856 · page 2

As you are doubtless aware, on the reduction of the stamp duties there appeared several cheap newspapers, to live their little day and be no more seen. There is one of the cheap sort that has managed to keep a…

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The War

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 8 March 1856 · page 9

BY the arrival of the Marco Polo, we have English news to the 7th of December, at which time, the greatest possible uncertainty prevailed, with respect to the ulterior intentions of the Western Powers…

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Energetic War Preparations in Russia

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 March 1856 · page 4
Also in Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer

A corps of 10,000 men occupies Kaffa; 10,000 more have just arrived at Coula; and there are still about 20,000 Russians on the Circassian coast…

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Loss of a Sardinian War Steamer

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 March 1856 · page 4
Also in Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer

A Sardinian war steamer, which was bringing to Constantinople a great number of sick from the ambulance at Balaclava, has foundered, and all on board perished…

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The Moral and Material Influences of War. (From the Times, December 5.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 March 1856 · page 8

IN war moral influences are even more important than material. A beaten army, though its numbers may only have been diminished by a fifteenth or twentieth part, cannot properly be represented as the army…

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The Unexpected Effects of the War. (From the Economist, November 24.)

Empire · Thursday 13 March 1856 · page 2

On Wednesday the Times dwelt with some earnestness on some of the unanticipated and unintended consequences of the war in the East. We copy a paragraph for general instruction:—…

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War Calculations. (From the Press, 24th November.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 March 1856 · page 5

THE leading journal of Thursday lagt contains an article based on a letter from its Vienna correspondent, professing to dissipate what the writer calls our "absurd delusions concerning the numerical strength…

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The War

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 15 March 1856 · page 8

IT is months since we said, that "the fall of Sebastopol would be found to be the greatest stumbling block in the way of the Allies"; and in ours of November the 3rd, we said -- "If the Allies succeed…

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The War

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 15 March 1856 · page 8

IT is cheering to see, by every possible evidence, how sound and steady are the principles and feelings of the British people in regard to the war. At all sorts of public meetings, on every festal occasion,…

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Irish Comments on the War. Aspect of the War

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 March 1856 · page 2

We must certainly admit that there is one specific point upon which the Allies have always hitherto possessed a decided advantage over the Czar—and, from the intrinsic nature of the…

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The Soldier, the Wolf, and the Prince

The Australian Band of Hope Review, and Children's Friend · Saturday 15 March 1856 · page 3

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