War or Peace
IT must be universally acknowledged that, for [?]rlike, as for all other operations, Luck is necessary, but "Fortune is a lady"—wevering without indiction, and changing without cause;…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1856
233 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 12
A Letter Received From a Soldier to a Comrade Soldier at Liverpool
MY DEAR FRIEND,—At the time I last wrote to you we were preparing for a brisk and laborious campaign in the ensuing spring, ad although we are not justified as yet in thinking that this order of things will be reversed, yet…
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" The loss of Moscow is not the loss of Russia." Kutusoff. The Northern Bee, a Russian journal, in an able and evidently fairly written article on the…
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The subjoined account of a collision between hostile tribes in Taranaki, is from the Southern Cross of the 25th April:— By the Ocean, we have news from New Plymouth to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Irish Feeling on the War Question. (From the Dublin Correspondent of the Times, 1st February)
ALDERMAN FERGUS FARRELL, the new Lord Mayor, gave his inaugural banquet last night at the Mansion-house. The Lord Lieutenant and almost every other person of note at present in…
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Scene: The Taileries; President; the Emperor, the Duke of Cambridge, Marshal Pelissier. General Della Marmora, General Canrobert, Sir Edmund Lyons General MacMahon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Missionary Reports From the Navigators, New Hebrides, and Loyalty Islands. (From the Samoan Reporter for January.) the War in Samoa
In our last number we announced that peace had been proclaimed by one of the war parties, viz., Manono; and expressed a hope that the other would, ere long, be induced to take a similar step. In the month of March…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The C[?]sts of the War. (From the Times, 7th February)
THE costs of the war, as far as supears in the public accounts, are not yet of the formidable character familiar to the older class of our readers. For the last year, they are not to be compered with any one of the…
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ON Tuesday evening, January 29, the Hon. and Rev. Montague Villiers delivered the Eleventh Lecture of the usual annual course, in connection with the Young Men's Christian Association, in Exeter Hall,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Scenes at the Close of the Council of War in Paris
A LETTRR from Paris thus describes the breaking up of the Council of War that assembled in the capital of France in the month of January last—the writer being one of the parties present on that occasion:—"A…
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In the House of Representatives on February 28th, a resolution was adopted on the motion of Mr. Floronce, instructing the Committee on Naval Affairs to the inquire into the expediency of making an…
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If any one wishes for another proof of the old maxim that "truth is great and will prevail," let him call to mind the discussions of the last twelve months, and then read with attention the reports of Sir John M'Neill and Colonel Tulloch…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The British Soldier V. the British Government
To speak of the accumulated miseries of War -- of its direful carnage and havoc -- would be, indeed trite and common-place. Every additional European Mail we receive furnishes ample proof patent of the fact that of all the wars in which England…
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In the House of Representatives, on the 27th February, the discussion on referring the message of the President, recommending the appropriation of 3,000,000 dollars to increase the…
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We are indebted to the New York Herald for the following historical summary of the whole matter, with a running commentary upon the papers:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The War Policy in Connection with India. (From the Daily News, February 5.)
Mr. Roebuck's suggestion that, in accepting the late Czar's challenge to war, we had in view the security of our Indian empire, has excited some surprise and a good deal of…
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The TIMES Paris correspondent is assured that the warlike preparations in France are continued just as if no conferences were about to be opened. The POST correspondent states that despatches from Asia Minor speak of the…
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The Times Paris correspondent is assured that the warlike preparations in France are continued just as if no conference were about to bs opened. The Post correspondent states that despatches from…
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