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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
176 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 9
BY the Brazil mail just arrived we have received details of the war between Brazil and Paraguay. The following extract from a letter dated Rio de Janeiro, February 7, will give an insight into the brutal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"YES, I know my chin's s handsome; but wait till you see my beard." "Oh, the vanity!" cried Lizzie, "the vanity of men in their faces! Talk of women[?]" and the silly creature looked up it her lover with most…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A CORRESPONDENT of the London Examiner writes to vindicate the action which Brazil is taking in the contest now going on in the River Plate. He denies that Brazil is attacking Uruguay without sufficient cause,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ON the 21st of March Mr. J. Scott Russell delivered a lecture to the members of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, on "The Modern Means of Naval War." There was a large attendance…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE whole of our party were thoroughly pipe hardened and smoke proof, else I am sure we must have been suffocated are we got clear of the first lager beer saloon in the Bowery. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE whole of our party were thoroughly PiPe hardened and smoke proof, else I am Sure we must have been suffocated ere we got clear of the first lager beer saloon in the Bowery. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Saturday last, on receipt of the intelligence brought by the Rosalie, from California, we issued a second edition of the Herald, containing the most important items leading up to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Saturday morning a considerable amount of excitement was caused in the city by the news from the American war brought by the Rosa Lee by way of California. It appears the Federals had…
Continued on Trove, page 369 →We translate the following from the Nichola[?]f Messenger:- During the whole of the siego of Sebastopol the dead were, interred upon the spot, where they fell. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN my last letter I informed you that virtually the Wanganui campaign had closed. The General is now in Auckland, with no intention of again making any active demonstration…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →We print on another page an abstract of the Message of Governor Andrew of Massachusetts, but there are one or two topics treated therein which are of sufficient general interest for special comment…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE great war on which the eyes of the world have been fixed for the last four yours has been brought virtually to a close by the surrender of General Lee with the chief army of the Southern States. This victory crowns the obstinate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE following speech was delivered at Washington on the evening of the 11th by President Lincoln:— "We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart. The evacuation of Petersburg…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE great war on which the eyes of the world have been fixed for the last four years has been brought virtually to a close by the surrender of General Lee with the chief army of the Southern States. This victory crowns the obstinate…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →THE following letter, addressed to the American Minister at Copenhagen, has been published in the American papers, and has at present a melancholy interest:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ordered:—That a salute of 200 guns be fired at the head-quarters of every army and department, and at every post and arsenel in the United States, and at the Military Academy at West Point, on the day of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thanks be to Almighty God for the great victory with which he has this day crowned you and the gal[?] armies under your command. The thanks of this department, and of the Government, and of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The London Times, which since the beginning of the war has treated the United States with a diabolical malignity and unfairness, is now trying to persuade its public…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THERE is no controvery so difficult of adjustment as that which occasionally arises between those who are desirous of eating and those who had rather not be eaten. It is one in which the ingenuity of mediators…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—As nearly all the telegrams and statements sent out from this city, in regard to a recent occurrence in the Tagus, which have been published in the Daily News and other newspapers, while professing to give an…
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