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The wars & local soldiers, 1870

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Ireland and the War

Evening News · Wednesday 26 October 1870 · page 3

OUR Cork correspondent telegraphs: Eight or ten thousand people assembled at Treaty Stone, Limerick, yesterday, to express sympathy with France. A brass band attended, and a profuse display of…

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The European War

Empire · Thursday 27 October 1870 · page 4

There onst was two cats in Kilkenny, And aich thought there was one cat too many; So they quarrelled and fit. And they gouged and they bit,…

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Ireland and the War. From the Pall Mall Gazette

Empire · Thursday 27 October 1870 · page 4

OUR Cork correspondent telegraphs: Eight or ten thousand people assembled at Treaty Stone, Limerick, yesterday, to express sympathy with France. A brass band attended, and a profuse display of…

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All Gone to the War

Evening News · Friday 28 October 1870 · page 3

A CORRESPONDENT of the New York Tribune says that "One requires to be in Germany to have brought home to one the full practical working of a system that so sharply, without distinction of…

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The War

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 29 October 1870 · page 8

ON reading the accounts of the war one is not so much struck with the grim results, in dead and wounded in the battles, as the apparently inexhaustible resources of…

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General War News

Evening News · Saturday 29 October 1870 · page 3

In our last we hinted at the probability of an engagement before Metz, and of the Emperor's retiring to Chalons, and it will be seen from what follows that this has taken place. That is to say, a battle was fought before…

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Miscellaneous War Items

Sydney Mail · Saturday 29 October 1870 · page 10

The Journal Official publishes details of an attempt made to get up disturbances yesterday at La Vilitte, a suburb of Paris. Eighty individuals, armed with daggers and revolvers, attacked the guard and barracks of the firemen…

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The War and Its Lessons

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 29 October 1870 · page 4

FOR many mails in succession the news has been scanty and, comparatively in significant. The tangible matters have been rare and peculative. It was like as…

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"The Times" on the War

Sydney Mail · Saturday 29 October 1870 · page 10

On the 16th of August the French "Army of tho Rhine" was expected to be at Berlin. The Emperor Napoleon, to do him justice, did not share the illusion of some of some of his partisans, and prepared his soldiers for…

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The Irish and the War

Evening News · Saturday 29 October 1870 · page 3

THE intimation by the French Consul in Waterford, that no brigade was being raised in Ireland to assist the Emperor, was a great damper on the enthusiasm of the bellicose youth in that part of the country…

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Spirit of the Press on the War

Sydney Mail · Saturday 29 October 1870 · page 14

NEVER since the Crimean war have such crowds waited round his office, or received with more eagerness the telegrams which announce the progress of hostilities in France…

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The War-and European News. Latest Telegrams

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 29 October 1870 · page 4

LONDON, October 1, 3.50 p.m.—The French forces attacked the entrenchments of the Sixth Prussian Corps on the 30th September, but were routed with great loss. The French Government ordered all Frenchmen from 21 to 40…

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The War.—Altered Position of the Combatants

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 29 October 1870 · page 8

THE character of the war and the aims of the combatants are entirely changed. In the part of August the armies of Germany were early fighting successfully to protect their fatherland…

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Incidents of the War. the Battle of Sedan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 October 1870 · page 4

We translate the following description of this great battle from the pen of a distinguished general officer, who, we are informed, was as on the spot and saw both camps, and was in communication both with the Emperor and the…

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News on the War Via San Francisco. Popular Demonstrations Against the Queen and Government in London

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 29 October 1870 · page 4

By the Californian and New Zealand Branch steamer, "City of Melbourne," which arrived in port on Sunday afternoon, we are in possession of American files up to the 11th…

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The War

Evening News · Monday 31 October 1870 · page 3

IT this generation even war is up to high pressure—short, sharp, and decisive. It is but six weeks since war was declared between France and Prussia. A nation without a King looked round for a ruler, and…

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Men-of-war on the Station

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 31 October 1870 · page 2

Rosario, 3 guns, Commander Palmer, at New Zealand. Virago, 6 guns, Commander Murrary, on a cruise. Blanche, 8 gunes, Commander Montgomery, at New Zealand. Clio, 21 gunes, Commodore Stirling, at Sydney…

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The War. From Our London Correspondent

Empire · Monday 31 October 1870 · page 3

IN this generation even war is up to high pressure— short, sharp, and decisive. It is but six weeks since war was declared between France and Prussia. A nation without a King looked round for a ruler, and…

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The Irish and the War

Empire · Wednesday 2 November 1870 · page 4

THE intimation by the French Consul in Waterford, that no brigade was being raised in Ireland to assist the Emperor, was a great damper on the enthusiasm of the bellicose youth in that part of the country…

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All Gone to the War

Empire · Wednesday 2 November 1870 · page 4

A CORRESPONDENT of the New York Tribune says that " One requires to be in Germany to have brought home to one the full practical working of a system that so sharply, without distinction of…

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