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The wars & local soldiers, 1857

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The Chinese War. [From Our London Correspondent.]

Empire · Thursday 26 March 1857 · page 5

THAT you may see how differently the Chinese matter is regarded here, I enclose an article from the Daily News of to-day (January 12th), censuring very serverely the English…

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State of Europe—peace or War

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 March 1857 · page 2

THE last crash of the Eastern War had hardly subsided when the ominous trumpet of War resumed its startling notes in the West. The armies of Prussia and…

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The War with China. (From the Examiner, January 10.)

Empire · Thursday 2 April 1857 · page 2

The Gazette has published the official account of our unfortunate dispute with the Chinese. It is very voluminous, and, as belongs to its formal nature, some parts of it very stiff, reminding one both of the compass and…

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China. Frightful Slaughter of Chinese by H. M. Ships of War. (From the Friend of China Extra, January 6.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 April 1857 · page 2

OUR news from Canton was just a week old when H. M. S. S. Coromandel, Lieutenant Douglas, R.N., commanding, arrived about half-past ten o'clock last night, bringing the…

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"Truth Will Out."—mismanagement in the Last War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 April 1857 · page 2

"Truth will out," says the proverb, and our daily experience justifies this saying of antiquity. Each week gives new revelations of the incompetence, or worse than incompetence of those who, by their…

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The War with Persia. (From the Daily News, January 17.)

Empire · Tuesday 14 April 1857 · page 2

The tardy and meagre accounts of the Persian Gulf expedition, received by the overland mail, demonstrate the urgent need in which this country stands of the establishment of…

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The English War with Persia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 April 1857 · page 5

WE find the following in the Times, but it must be taken cum grano salis. Marseilles, Tuesday. The advices brought by the Euphrates state that the…

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Are We Really at War with Persia? (From the Daily News, January 17.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 April 1857 · page 3

THE tardy and meagre accounts of the Persian Gulf expedition, received by the overland mail, demonstrate the urgent need in which this country stands of the establishment of telegraphic communication with…

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The War with China

Empire · Monday 20 April 1857 · page 5

The most desirable result, under all the cirournstances, would be that the rupture should be confined in its effects to the scene of its origin, and terminated at Last by the concessions to which,in such a contest,…

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The War with China

Empire · Thursday 23 April 1857 · page 5
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

The Daily News also gives prominence to the following paragraph:—"In another column we have stated that no troops are to be sent from England to Persia. We have equally good grounds for believing that no…

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The War with Persia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 April 1857 · page 3
Also in Empire

Vienna, February 12. — 700 men have arrived in the Persian Gulf from Bombay. An English, corps [?] has reached Cabul. It is marching, in conjunction with the troops of Dost…

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Rumoured Termination of the Persian War

Empire · Thursday 23 April 1857 · page 5
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

It is not intended, says the Daily News, to send out any troops from England to Persia. This announcement we make with the most entire confidence that it will be found correct. We believe we may add that the…

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The Simla's News. English and Foreign Intelligence. the British Government Defeated on the Chinese War Question, Cobden Being the Mover, by a Majority of Sixteen. Lord Palmerston Appeals to the Country, and a General Election Was to Take Place About the 26Th of March. Wool Sales Had Commenced.—on Australian Wool There Was an Advance of 2D. to 3D. Per Pound

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 May 1857 · page 5

THE steamship Simla, Captain Cooper, left Suez March 28th, at 6 p.m., and arrived at Aden April 4th, at 9.10 a.m.; from Aden April 5th, 6.10 a.m., arriving at Galle the 15th. at…

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Parliamentary Intelligence. House of Lords, Thursday, March 12. the War with China

Empire · Tuesday 19 May 1857 · page 6

The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said, he intended to move for certain returns respecting the exceution by British authorities in China of the supplemental treaty of 1843. It appeared to him that, when they were very…

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The Persian War.—defeat of the Persians at Burazjoon

Empire · Wednesday 20 May 1857 · page 5

The Bombay Telegraph, of the 20th of March, pub-lishes accounts of a serious engagement between the British troops under General Outram and a persian army, and which resulted in a total defeat of the latter,…

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Upset of the Palmerston Ministry—the War in China

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 May 1857 · page 2

It has often been remarked that mighty changes and great revolutions have been brought about by trivial causes or insignificant incidents. This is exemplified by the parliamentary defeat of the…

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A Revelation of Thuggism. (From Episodes in the War: Life of a Soldier, by Calder Camphell.)

Empire · Tuesday 2 June 1857 · page 3

The annual inspections and reviews being over, I had obtained a month's leave of absence from my regiment, at that time occupying the lonely fort of Chanda, the capital of a district of the same name subject to the…

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