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The wars & local soldiers, 1870

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A French General Arrested by his Soldiers

Evening News · Thursday 1 December 1870 · page 3

GENERAL AMEERT, who commanded section five of the fortifications of Paris, extending from bastions forty-six to fifty-four, has been arrested by his own men. On Sunday afternoon, september 25, he was…

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Men-of-war on the Station

Empire · Friday 2 December 1870 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

Rosario, 3 guns, at New Zealand. Virago, 6 guns, Commander Murray, at New Zealand. Blanche, 8 guns, Commander Montgomery, at New…

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Relief of the Sick and Wounded

Sydney Mail · Saturday 3 December 1870 · page 7

The preparation of the ambulance of the National Society is steadily advancing to completion at Woolwich, where also some of the medical officers who have volunteered to accompany it to the seat of war are assisting in…

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The War

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 December 1870 · page 8

IT is not a matter of surprise that the attention of all men should for the present be engrossed by the startling events of a bloody game which lays waste an empire…

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England's Condition for War

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 December 1870 · page 17

YESTERDAY at the Thames Agricultural Association's annual meeting the members for the county of Oxford, Messrs. Henley, North, and Cartwright, were present. Colonel North, in responding to the…

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Freemasonry and the War

Empire · Saturday 3 December 1870 · page 4

THIS present war has been prolific in the illustrations of the value of Fraemasonary in dangerous emergencies, and the anecdotes are endless of the lives saved by its means. Among the cartloads of…

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English News. Diary of the War

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 3 December 1870 · page 7

The diary of the war given in the HOME NEWS of September 9, brought up the record of events from the declaration of war to the 3rd September, on which day the French Republic…

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The War. Latest Intelligence Per Antipodean Balloon Express

Sydney Punch · Saturday 3 December 1870 · page 9

Gambetta am better. The Prussians have capsized the Lady of Lyons, and clawed Melnotte. Billy Cummings has been created a Knight of Malt-- ah !…

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France. the Bishop of Orleans on the War

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 December 1870 · page 4

Mgr. Dupanloup writes to a friend on the present crisis in France :— "A month ago I expressed my horror of war, and also, alas! my confidence in the…

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Mrs. Malaprop on the War and the Prospects of Peace

Sydney Punch · Saturday 3 December 1870 · page 1

'Ow they can be so foolish as to go and hexpect two men as is lighting like the Prussians and the French for to make peace when the very first thing as they does is to go and take away the umpire, and shut him up in a castle, and then make that a Trochus scoundrel…

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A Soldiers Row in Tipperary

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 December 1870 · page 7

A correspondent of the "Irish Times," writing from Tipperary on Tuesday, says :— A mutiny among a company of the 89th Regiment, stationed in the Tipperary…

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Experiences of a Wounded German

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 December 1870 · page 3

THE North German Gazette contains an interesting narrative, written by a soldier who was wounded in the battle before Metz on the 18th. It gives a vivid picture of the scenes and sensations of a battle-field…

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The Home Secretary of the War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 December 1870 · page 6

THE Right Hon. H. A. Bruce addressed a crowded meeting of his constituents on Monday, October 26, at Glasgow. The hon. gentleman, in reviewing the past session, said Parliament had passed a measure for…

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A War-waft to Tattersall's. Londn, Monday Evening, September [?]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 December 1870 · page 6

I HAVE just come back from Count de Lagrange's sale, "without reserve." at Tattersall's. When I came out of the great glass-rooted yard, into the pouring rain, and ankle-deep mud, the ragged news-boys…

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The War and the English Working Classes

Evening News · Tuesday 6 December 1870 · page 3

LAST evening at the A[?]-hall, Arunde[?]-street Strand, the final meeting was held of the representative working men who have had the arrangement of the demonstration of to-night at St. James's-hall…

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A French General Arrested by His Soldiers

Empire · Tuesday 6 December 1870 · page 3

GENERAL AMBERT, who commanded section five of the fortifications of Paris, extending from bastions forty-six to fifty-four, has been arrested by his own men. On Sunday afternoon, September 25, he was…

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Romance in War

Evening News · Wednesday 7 December 1870 · page 3

A PRUSSIAN journal is responsible for the following:—The Crown Prince of Prussia, arriving at St. Mihiel on the 20th August, took up his quarters at the Town Hall, part of which was inhabited by the…

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The War and the English Working Classes

Empire · Wednesday 7 December 1870 · page 4

LAST evening at the Arundel-hall, Arundel-street, Strand, the final meeting was held of the representative working men who have had the arrangement of the demonstration of to-night at St. James's-hall,…

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Romance in War

Empire · Thursday 8 December 1870 · page 4

A PRUSSIAN journal is responsible for, the following: —The Crown Prince, of Prussia, arriving at St. Mihiel on the 20th August, took up his quarters at the Town Hall, part of which was inhabited by the…

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