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The wars & local soldiers, 1859

162 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 9

Opinions on the War

Empire · Friday 29 July 1859 · page 3

WE proceed to select some of the most prominent published observations upon the state affairs that is exciting, such general attention; and first we extract the following, from the Liverpool Chronicle of May…

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Irish Opinion on the War

Empire · Friday 29 July 1859 · page 3

The following judicious remarks upon the Continental crisis are extracted from a clever speech delivered by Lord John Browne upon his re-election the other day for the county of Mayo:-…

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An American, View of the War

Empire · Friday 29 July 1859 · page 3

The New York Tribune of the 7th instant has the fol lowing excellent article upon the course incumbent, upon all sincere friend of liberty:—"Two of the great mili[?]ary monarchies of Continental Europe appear about to…

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Latest European News. Progress of the War

Empire · Friday 29 July 1859 · page 2

BY the arrival of the Wonga Wonga,from Melbourne, at an early hour yesterday morning, we have been placed, in possession of our English files to the 21st of May, and now present…

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The War Peeling in Germany. to the Editor of the Times

Empire · Friday 29 July 1859 · page 3

SIR,—The annexed letter is from an accomplished German, well acquainted with this country and well known here, whose account of the present state of feeling and public…

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The War in Italy. (From the Times, May 21.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 July 1859 · page 7

LAST evening a public meeting upon the subject of the war in Italy, was held at the London Tavern, Bishops-gate-street, the large room of which was completely filled some time before the hour announced for the…

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The Wounded

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 August 1859 · page 5

"Thou canst not wish to live," the surgeon said. He clutched him, as a soul thrust forth from bliss Clings to the ledge of Heaven! "Would'st thou keep this Poor branchless trunk?" "But she would lean my head…

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The Wounded

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 August 1859 · page 5

"See to my brother, Doctor; I have lain All day against his heart, it is warm there; This stiffness is a trance; he lives! I swear,— I swear he lives!" "Good Doctor, tell my ain…

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Sonnets on the War. Prefaratory

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 August 1859 · page 5

I SAW the human millions as the sand Unruffled on the starlit wilderness. The day was near, and every star grow less In universal dawn. Then woke a band…

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General Peel and Sir James Graham. War Office, May 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 August 1859 · page 3

Dear Sir James Graham,—I have waited in hope that you would have contradicted a statement reported to have been made by you in your speech at Carlisle, on Monday last, to the effect, "That in order to…

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The French War Loan. (From the Times, May 19.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 August 1859 · page 3

EVEN in these days of wars, revolutions, and elections, we have not seen anything so amazing as the report of the Fronch Minister of Finance on the subscription to the new Loan. Unless it were the Railway Mania of…

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Reflections on the War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 August 1859 · page 5

General Count Schluick, who succeeds Count Guylai in command of the Austrian army, is an officer whose name was familiar to Europe ten years ago, when the Hungarian war was…

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Progress of the War in Italy

Empire · Monday 8 August 1859 · page 5

Several pitched —battles have been fought between the allied armies France and Sardinia on one hand, and the troops of the Emperor of Austria on the other. The losses…

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Arrival of Mail Steamer at Kangaroo Island. English News to the 18Th June. Change in the British Ministry. the Italian War. the Austrians Defeated. French Operations in the Adriatic. Declaration of Russia

Empire · Monday 8 August 1859 · page 5

ON Saturday we received a telegram, announcing the arrival of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's mail-steamer Bombay, at Adelaide, with her June mails; and, as the successive…

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England's Telegraphic Situation in the War. (From the Liverpool Courier, May 21.)

Empire · Tuesday 9 August 1859 · page 3

WE think we are scarcely incorrect in stating that one of the most assuring considerations in the minds of the British public generally, at the present juneture of European affairs, is the feeling that we…

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The War

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 10 August 1859 · page 2

Several battles have been fought between the allied armies of France and Sardinia on one hand, and the troops of the Emperor of Austria on the other. The losses on both sides arc reported as…

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"Reflections on the War

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 10 August 1859 · page 3

General Count Schluick, who succeeds Count Guylai in command of the Austrian army, is an officer whose name was familiar to Europe ton years ago, when tho Hungarian war was raging;…

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The War. (From the Home News.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 August 1859 · page 8

IN our last we described the movements of the France-Sardinian and the Austrian armies up to the time when they confronted each other on Piedmontese ground, and had begun to make a few…

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The Seat of War

Empire · Friday 12 August 1859 · page 4

FROM a private letter, dated Malta, June 22nd, we extract the following:— "I have witnessed the battlebetween the French and Sardinian[?] against the Austrians, and a most sanguinary and desperate battle it was. Fearful…

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Removal of the Wounded. Triumphal Entry Into Milan. Milan, June 8

Empire · Friday 12 August 1859 · page 3

I[?] some one had told me that just on the ninth day after my arrival at the camp at Ver[?]lli I should go by rail from Magenta to Milan,[?] I should have thought him mad; and yet so it is. I arrived here yesterday…

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