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The wars & local soldiers, 1866

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Men-of-war on the Station

Empire · Saturday 23 June 1866 · page 3

Curages, 21 guns, Commodors Sir William Wisemans, at Sydney [?], 21 guns, Captain Lu[?], at New Zealand. Briak, 16 guns, captain Hope at New Zealand…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 June 1866 · page 6

WE have just been having one of our characteristic excitements here during the last week. In my last I mentioned that the Governor had gone to Kawhia to meet Rewi and the King…

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The Chiltan War with Spain

Empire · Friday 29 June 1866 · page 3

The following spirited account of the dispute between Spain and Chili, and of the state of uffairs in the latter country, is extracted from a letter which arrived at the end of the week, written by a young lady…

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A Soldier's Life

Empire · Monday 2 July 1866 · page 6

The step from eadet to colonel is a long one, and could hardly have been accomplished without something occurring in the passage which was worth narrating and listening to as…

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Telegraphic Intelligence. [From Our Correspondents.] Melbourne. Tuesday. Commencement of War in Europe. Garibaldi Entered Venetia

Empire · Wednesday 11 July 1866 · page 4

A telegram, dated London, 13th June, has been received here, and is thoroughly reliable, that war bas actually commenced in Europe. General Garibaldi has entered Venetia with his troops. The Pope has fied…

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Arrival of the English Mail at Adelaide. News to the 12Th of June. Commercial Panic in England. Preparations for War on the Continent. Adelaide, Tuesday, 10th July

Empire · Wednesday 11 July 1866 · page 5

The City of Melbourne, with the mails per Bombay, arrived at 8 a.m. The Bombay arrived at the Sound on the 6th, previous to the arrival of the Ellora with the outgoing…

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Arrival of the City of Melbourne at Adelaide, with the English Mail Per Bombay. Preparations for War in Europe. European Conference. Great Monetary Panic. One Hundred and Fifty Millions Sterling of Property Sacrificed by the Fall in Prices. Run Upon the Banks. Bank Rate of Discount 10 Per Cent.; for Advances on Stock 12 Per Cent. [From Our Kikg George's Sound Special Telegraph Correspondent.] Adelaide, Tuesday, 12.30 p.m

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 July 1866 · page 4

THE steamer City of Melbourne, with the European Mails per Bombay, arrived at Glenelg Pier at 8 a.m., 10th instant, after a passage of 92 hours; the upward passage occupied 108…

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Napier's Victory Over the Portuguese Squadron. (From a Soldier of Three Queens—by R. Henderson.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 July 1866 · page 6

THE order was given, " Beat to quarters;" the signal sent aloft, "Follow the 'Admiral's' motions"— "Engage the ships indicated." We passed the other ships of the squadron as we took our place. The…

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Commencement of War in Europe. Garibaldi Entered Venetia

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 July 1866 · page 439

A telegram, dated London, 13th June, has been received in Melbourne and is [?]roughly reliable, that war has actually comm[?] in Europe. General Garibaldi has entered [?]…

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Foreign. the Impending War

Empire · Monday 16 July 1866 · page 2

The preparations for war continue on all sides, and the armed forces are gradually approaching one another. The subjoined is a somewhat detailed…

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The Impending War. England and the Continental Powers. House of Lords, May 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 July 1866 · page 6

THE Earl of Cadogan, who had a notice of a question on this subject, said that since he gave that notice an answer to a similar question had been given, by a member of the Government in the other House; but…

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[?] of War

Empire · Thursday 19 July 1866 · page 2

[?] rapid oscillations in the [?] on the continent, [?] week, from a [?] fear that it…

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The Civil War in America

Empire · Thursday 19 July 1866 · page 2

The little volume bearing this title contains the address read by the an hor at the last meetting of the Manchester Union and Emancipation Society—an association formed at a momentous…

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Alarms From the West—war and Invasion

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 July 1866 · page 459

Off the western shores of the North American Continent the thunder-peal of battle may be echoing even whilst the ink is drying on the paper on which we write these lines. Over the…

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Men-of-war on the Station

Empire · Monday 23 July 1866 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

Cureges, 23 guns, Commodore, Sir William Wiseman, of Sydney. Eah,m 21 guns, Captain Luce, at New Zealand. Brisk, 16 guns, Captain Hops, at New Zealnd…

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What Will the War Be About? (From Teh Examiner.)

Empire · Thursday 26 July 1866 · page 6

There are no grounds of either surprise or censure in Italy's coming forward to take advantage of the quarrel between the great Germa: Powers to reopen and forcibly settle, if possible,…

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John Mitchell on the Probability of an European War

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 July 1866 · page 475

In a letter to the New York Daily News, John Mitchel writes on the impending war between Austria and Prussia. In his opinion the convulsion which threatens Europe may at any moment…

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Diary of a Clerk in the Confederate War Department

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 July 1866 · page 467

There has been published at Philadelphia the diary of one J. B. Jones, who describes himself as having been, a clerk in the War Department of the Confederate States government. It does…

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The Soldier Laddie

Sydney Punch · Saturday 28 July 1866 · page 1

I'm a man of law And what, my boys, is more, A legislative bore, If ever there was one…

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