Alarming News from the Hunter River District. (Flashed along the electrified wires by Mr. Punch's thunderstruck correspondent.) Civil War in West Maitland! Hostilities Commenced in High Street. Battle of Bull's Run completely eclipsed. Retreat of the Army! the Enemy Master of the Situation!! Maitland, 7:30 p.m
Sydney Punch · Saturday 20 June 1868 · page 3
As the whole army of volunteers, ''cannoneers and all," preceded by their splendid band playing the soul-stirring melody of "Slap, bang," were marching, with colors flying, to lay siege to the hearts of the fair sex in the East, they were charged in the rear by a troop of wild…
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Empire · Monday 29 June 1868 · page 4
We extract from the Times of India the following additions incidents of the late Abyssin an war:— THE LAST HOURS OF THEODORE. Thoodorus had at last surroundered all the European…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Men of War on the Station
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 July 1868 · page 3
Challenger, 18 guns, Commodore Lambert, on a cruise. Brisk, 16 guns, Captain Hope, on a cruise. Chatybdis, 17 guns, Captain Lyons, at Syney, bound for Valparaiso…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 July 1868 · page 8
Ctallenger, 18 guns, Commodore Lambert, on a cruise. Brisk, 16 guns, Captain Hope, on a cruise. Charybdis, 17 guns, Captain Lyons, left for Valparaiso. Rosario, 3 guns, Commander Palmer, at New Zealand…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 August 1868 · page 4
Challenger, 18 guns, Commodore Lambert, on a cruise. Brisk, 16 guns, Captain Hope, on a cruise. Charybdis, 17 guns, Captain Lyons, left for Valparaiso. Rosario, 3 guns, Commander Palmer, at New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Welcome Home."
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 August 1868 · page 3
There came a solemn wail across the sea, From a far land, And the hoarse breezes bore it wearily To Britain's strand…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Municipal War. To the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 August 1868 · page 3
SIR,—The paragraph in your issue of Wednesday, bearing the above title, was substantially accurate, and the Right Worshipful the Mayor of Sydney's "correction" of that paragraph contains some…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Men-of-war on the Station
Empire · Wednesday 12 August 1868 · page 2
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald
Brisk, 16 guns, Captain Hope, at Sydney. Challenger, 18 guns, Commodore Lambert, at South Sea Islands. Charybdis, 17 guns, Captain Lyons, on a cruise…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Expl0sive Projectiles in War
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 August 1868 · page 6
THE following circular has been issued to the Ambassadors and representatives of Russia abroad:— " St. Petersburg, May 12. " His Majesty the Emperor has deigned to honour…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Kinglake's Crimean War. (From the Atheneaum.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 August 1868 · page 3
The Invasion of the Crimea: its Origin, and an Account of its Progress down to the Death of Lord Raglan. By Alexander WILLIAM KINGLAKE. Vols. III. and IV. (Blackwood and Sons.)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cruelty in War. (From the Pall Mall Gazette.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 August 1868 · page 6
SOME curious speculations are suggested, and a train of thought which it may not be altogether unprofitable to pursue, by the announcement that France and Russia have entered into a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Cost of Our Ships of War. (From the Mechanies' Magazine.)
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 August 1868 · page 3
IN our impression of March 20th last, we called attention to the absurdity of the method of account-keeping adopted by the Admiralty, in which immense sums of money, designated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Cost of Fourteen Years' War
Sydney Mail · Saturday 22 August 1868 · page 10
An article headed "Contemporary Wars, from 1853 to 1866," gives the following information as to the losses in men: — Killed in battle, or dead from wounds, during the period indicated…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The French Press on the Success of the Abyssinian War
Sydney Mail · Saturday 22 August 1868 · page 10
The French Press is unanimous in its expressions of admiration of the skill, judgment, and signal success of Sir Robert Napier, and the gallant army under his command. They regard the Abyssinian expedition as…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The War in New Zealand. Latest From Napier. Repulse of Colonel Whitmore. (From the Wellington Independent.) Napier, Friday, 14th August, 3.30 p.m
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 August 1868 · page 5
THE Colonial Forces, numbering 130 men, under Colonel Whitmore, marched on the 6th, without horses, to endenvour to overtake the rebels, and on the 8th overtook them in strong force at the foot of the Snowy ranges, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Blockade of Mazatlan by a British War Steamer
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 August 1868 · page 3
By the Oregonian we (Panama Star) have full particulars of the trouble between the Mexican authorities and Captain Bridges of the British war steamer Chanticleer, from which it appears that the Mexicans were entirely to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A French War-pamlphlet!
Freeman's Journal · Saturday 29 August 1868 · page 13
"Long threatening cornea at last," and it would appear as if this proverb were about to be illustrated very shortly in a Franco-Prussian War, A pamphlet has appeared in Paris called…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Why Charlie; or Municipal War
Sydney Punch · Saturday 29 August 1868 · page 3
Who, in a self-important hour, Turns all his milk of kindness sour, And then invades a friendly power? Why, Charlie…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Blockade of Mazatlan by a British War Steamer
Sydney Mail · Saturday 29 August 1868 · page 11
By the Orogon[?] we (panama Star) have full particulars of the trouble between the Mexican authorities and Captain Bridges of the British war steamer Chanticleer, from which it appears that the Mexicans were entirely to…
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