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The wars & local soldiers, 1865

176 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 9

The New War in Bootan. (From the Spectator, August 26.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 October 1865 · page 6

SIRJOHN LA W[?]ENCE has decided, and the war with Bootan is to be re-commenced from the beginning. Originally commenced to avenge the insults offered to the British Env[?]y, Mr. Ashley Eden, and to recover…

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The New Zealand War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 November 1865 · page 3

THE barque Novelty brings Auckland papers to the 4th instant. We quote from the Daily Southern Cross as follows:—…

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The New Zealand War. More Successes by the Araws—surrender of Rebels at Te Teko—[?]pture of Fulloon's Murderers. Taurangs, October 26th

Sydney Mail · Saturday 18 November 1865 · page 10

We have had a series of westerly gales during the whole week, which have seriously affected the crops the neighbourhood of the camp, more particularly the [?]tato cultivations, which have received irretrievable dam[?]…

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Men-of-war on the Station

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 November 1865 · page 9

Eclipse, 4 guns Commander Freemantle, on a cruise. Curacoa, 23 guns Commodore Sir William Wiseman, at Sydney. Esk, 21 guns, Captain Lucic, on a cruise. Falcon, 17 guns, Commander Parkin, on a cruise…

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The New Zealand War. (From Our Own Correspondent.] Auckland, October 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 November 1865 · page 10

THE news received this week from the East Coast is less startling than most people here anticipated, although it has not fallen at all short of my own expectations…

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The New Zealand War and the Aborigines Protection Society. (From the Times, September 23.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 November 1865 · page 6

A CURTAIN Society, with the doings of which, our readers become periodically acquainted, makes one more appearance before the public this morning. In the last letter of our New Zealand correspondent an…

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The Late Mr Cobden on the American War and Mexico

Empire · Thursday 30 November 1865 · page 2

The following is an extract from a letter written in May, 1[?]64 by the late Richard Co[?]en on American to a French gentleman residing in Switz rland, upon the subject od f the late rebe[?]:—"London, may 13, 1864…

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The War in Mexico

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 December 1865 · page 789

"VERA CRUZ. MEXICO, AUGUST 28, 1865.—Since the 4th inst. there has been but one engagement of note, and that is the capture and abandonment of Tehuacan, a city of about ten…

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Cessation of the Basuto War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 December 1865 · page 7

The war between the Government of the Free State and Moshesh has ended in the withdrawal of the burghers from the territory of the Basutos. The siege of Thaba Bosigo, which was commenced prior to the dispatch of our last…

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The New Zealand War. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Auckland, November 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 December 1865 · page 7

ON the East Coast the fighting goes on without check in our favour. Since the successes at Waiapu, to the south, and the first successes of the Arawas, under the command of Mr. Mair,…

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The New Zealand War

Sydney Mail · Saturday 23 December 1865 · page 6

THE misunderstanding between Sir G. Grey and General Cameron is an untoward accident, the Times observes, but it has only aggravated an evil which has its real origin in the anomalous relations between…

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Important From Valparaiso. Blockade of the Ports of Chili. War Declared by Chili. (From the Daily Southern Cross, December 9.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 December 1865 · page 7

BY the arrival of the American barque Matias Salvinius, Captain Longlas, from Valparaso, we have dales to the 5th October, containing important news respecting the bleelade of the ports of Chili…

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The Treatment of the Federal Prisoners in the Late War

Empire · Wednesday 27 December 1865 · page 5

The most important testimony adduced before the Wirz Court-martial at Washington, on the 21st ultimo, was that of Drs. F. S. Hopkins and G. L. Rice, two of the Confederate medical men who were on duty at the…

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The War in the Brazils. (From the Daily Telegraph, October 3.) Rio De Janeiro, September 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 December 1865 · page 3

DATES from Montevideo are to the 16th, and from Buenos Ayres to the 14th instant. On the 8th Uruguayana was still occupied by the Paraguayan column, and the attack on the town, for reasons…

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The Soldier and His Food

Empire · Thursday 28 December 1865 · page 8

The tradesmen of Woolwich are evidently under the impression that the British army ought to be maintained not for the defence of (he empire or the support of the throne, but for their own espeoial pecuniary…

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Important From Valparaiso. Blockade of the Ports of Chill War Declared by Chili

Sydney Mail · Saturday 30 December 1865 · page 12

BY the arrival of the American barque Matias Salvinius, Captain Douglas, from Valparaiso, we have dates to the 5th October, containing important news respecting the blo[?]ade of the ports of Chill…

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