The War in America
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 wars & local soldiers, 1864
387 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 20
The Civil War in America. Acceptation of the Chicaco Nomination by M'clalan.[?]
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…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Our Soldiers in New Zealand. (From the Times, August 25)
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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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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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 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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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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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 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,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Man-o'-war Cruise From Auckland to Australia. [From the New Zealand Herald, November 7.) From Sydney to Melbourne
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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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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"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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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 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…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The New Zealand War. Sir George Grey and His Native Policy. Mangonui, November 18
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…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The War in America. Virginia. (From the Home News, October 26.)
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 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 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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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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THE last accounts from New Zealand are full of gloom. There is no activity in the war. There is no probability of peace. Ten thousand men, imposing a heavy charge both upon the…
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