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The wars & local soldiers, 1864

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A Small Beginning. to M. Lesancquer, First Clerk in the War-office

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 November 1864 · page 3

"Sir,—Quite a stranger in Paris, and having no acquaintances, it is only in you I can hope. The friendship you entertained for my father induces me to trust you will do something for me. In the…

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The War in America

Empire · Friday 11 November 1864 · page 5

Latest dates are to the evening of the 15th September. The events of the month had been less favourable than before to the Confederates. The Federals have at last succeeded in…

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The Civil War in America. Acceptation of the Chicaco Nomination by M'clalan.[?]

Empire · Monday 14 November 1864 · page 5

Our advices from America are [?] three days later than those receive as the date of our last publication. In the absence of any very important military news. the approaching Presidential election…

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Our Soldiers in New Zealand. (From the Times, August 25)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 November 1864 · page 3

IN such a war as that now raging in New Zealand the valour of the soldier must be almost its own reward. Toil without glory, the danger of the battle without that excitement which has been called "the rapture…

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The Orange Rioes— a Soldier's Letter

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 16 November 1864 · page 3

One of the military, ordered to Belfast during the riots— an Englishman and a Protestant—sent the subjoined letter to the press:— Belfast, Aug. 22,1864…

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Men-of-war on the Station

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 November 1864 · page 10

Harrier, 17 guns, Acting-commander Swan, New Zealand. Miranda, 14 guns, Captain Jenkins, at Sydney. Eclipse, 4 guns, Commander Freemantle, at New Zealand. Curacoa, 23 guns, Commodoro Sir William Wiseman, at New…

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The New Zealand War. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Auckland, October 5th

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 November 1864 · page 8

THE progress of events is much less rapid than might naturally have been expected from the tenor of my last letter by the mail steamer on the 1st. The resignation of the Whitaker…

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The American War. Lates News

Empire · Tuesday 22 November 1864 · page 4

BY the Marian wa have California paper to the 26th September containing telegraphic Intelligence from, the Eastern States of America to September 28th. The despatches are meagre, and the chief items appear to be…

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America. War News to September 29. Great Federal Successes in the Shenandoah Valley. Reported Surrender of Mobile

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 November 1864 · page 7

BY the barque Mation, Captain Coutts, we have San Francisco papers to the 29th of September, being thireeen days later than that brought by the mail steamer Northern, via Marseilles…

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The Late Russian War

Empire · Friday 25 November 1864 · page 3

THE following are extracts from reviews of "Todleben's History of the Crimean War." In the North British Review and the Cornhill Magazine. It will be remembered that Todleben, then a Captain of Engineers, now,…

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A Man-o'-war Cruise From Auckland to Australia. [From the New Zealand Herald, November 7.) From Sydney to Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 November 1864 · page 3

SEVERE and continued indisposition detained me in Sydney longer than I had intended; however, after waiting five or six days, in the hope of taking passage by the City of Adelaide, I at length embarked, on the…

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The New Zealand War. Auckland, 8th November

Sydney Mail · Saturday 26 November 1864 · page 7

THERE is but little news to sent you of a positive character; and yet so critical are the times felt to be by those who have the means, and the rather unenviable power of seeing below…

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Humours of the American War. (From the Orpheus C. Kerr Papers.)

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 26 November 1864 · page 4

"The Mackeral Brigade, of which I have the honour to be a member, was about the worst demoralized of all the brigades that covered themselves with glory and perspiration at the scrimmage of Bull's Run. In the first…

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America. War News to September 29. Great Federal Successes in the Shenandoah Valley. Reported Surrender of Mobile

Sydney Mail · Saturday 26 November 1864 · page 7

BY the barque Marion, Captain Coutts, we have San Francisco papers to the 29th of September, being thirteen days later news than that brought by the mail steamer Northam, via Marseilles…

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The Emperor Napoleon on the Art of War

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 30 November 1864 · page 3

The Constitutionnel has a favourable notice of the "Past and Future of Artillery." This work was commenced by bis Majesty in 1845 when he was an imprisoned Prince shut up in…

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The New Zealand War. Sir George Grey and His Native Policy. Mangonui, November 18

Sydney Mail · Saturday 10 December 1864 · page 9

AMONGST all the subjects which I have been [?]able to impart to you since the New Zealand [?] war commenced, I have felt that the one in [?] which I had least to say was perhaps the most…

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The War in America. Virginia. (From the Home News, October 26.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 December 1864 · page 8

THe political prospect in America is confused and shifting in the extreme, but if one may assume that the Presidential contest will he governed, even at the eleventh hour, by the events of the war, it may be…

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The War in America. Virginia

Sydney Mail · Saturday 17 December 1864 · page 11

THE political prospect in America is confused and shifting in the extreme, but if one may assume that the Presidential contest will be governed, even at the eleventh hour, by the events of the war, it may be…

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The End of the War

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 December 1864 · page 3

The South is still as persistent, at defiant, and as full of braggadocio as ever. What is this but extreme madness ? It is physically impossible for the South to triumph over the North…

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The American War. (From the Bridge Co[?].)

Empire · Monday 19 December 1864 · page 3

We have received what may almost be termed an amusing account of the progress of the American war which appeared in the weekly edition of the Se[?]ramento Union [?]o to September 24. It contains a large amount of news…

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