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The wars & local soldiers, 1871

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An Old Soldier's Reminiscences. (By Pendennis Major, in the Calcutta Englishman.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 May 1871 · page 6

ALTHOUGH you have been good enough to allow me to continue a weekly letter under the above title, I think the title is not a happy one when the subject is one as I should like to make it of general military…

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Pere Hyacinthe on the War and Its Probable Results

Empire · Wednesday 31 May 1871 · page 4

THE following is the most interesting portion of the address on the Influences of Races in War, delivered in London in February last, by Father Hyacinthe, in aid of the French charitable fund:—…

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Mr. Punch's War Song

Sydney Punch · Saturday 3 June 1871 · page 6

Volunteers in russet grey, Volunteers in red array, Quick and chase the foe away. On to victory…

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The War. Entrance of the German Army Into Paris

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 June 1871 · page 439

Imperial Head-quarters, Versailles, March 1. The Emperor-King telegraphs as follows to the Empress-Queen :—" I have just returned from Longchamp, where I inspected the troops of the 6th and…

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Civil War in France

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 June 1871 · page 6

When the mail left, on 21st April, severe fighting and cannonading were incessant around Paris. The Commune was making extensive preparations for resistance…

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The Civil War in France

Evening News · Monday 5 June 1871 · page 3

When the mail left, on 21st April, severe figh[?] and cannonading were incessant around Paris. The Commune was Making extensive preparations for resistance…

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Arrival of the Mail at Adelaide. Newspaper Dates to April 20. Telegrams to May 11. Continued Civil War in France. Invested and Forts Taken. Entrance of Provisions Prohibited. Treaty of Peace with Germany Signed. Defeat of the Gladstone Government. Rise in the Price of Wool. Pacific Treaty Between England and America. Troublous Affairs in Ireland. Habeas Corpus Act Likely to Be Suspended. Further News of Dr. Livingstone

Evening News · Monday 5 June 1871 · page 2

WE have the following telegraphic despatches from our Adelaide correspondent, furnishing the substance of the news brought by the branch mail steamer from King George's Sound, and…

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Arrival of the Mail at Adelaide. Newspaper Dates T April 20. Telegrams to May 11. Continued Civil War in France. Paris Invested and Forts Taken. Entrance of Provisions Prohibited. Treaty of Peace with Germany Signed. Defeat of the Gladstone Government. Rise in the Price of Wool. Pacific Treaty Between England and America. Troublous Affairs in Ireland. Habeas Corpus Act Likely to Be Suspended. Further News of Dr. Livingstone

Empire · Monday 5 June 1871 · page 3

We have the following telegraphic despatches from our Adelaide correspondent, furnishing the substance of the news brought by the branch mail steamer from King George's Sound, and…

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Arrival of the Ils.. N.Z., and A. Mail Steamship Nebraska European War News

Empire · Tuesday 6 June 1871 · page 3

By the arrival of the Honolulu, New Zealand, and Australian mail line st[?]mer Nebraska, we have details of news from London to the 5th May. The following leading items of inerest, though not so…

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Arrival of the U.S., NZ., and A. Mail Steamship Nebraska. European War News

Evening News · Tuesday 6 June 1871 · page 2

BY the arrival of the Honolulu, New Zealand, and Australian mail line steamer Nebraska, we have details of news from London to the 5th May. The following leading items of interest, though not so…

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An Old Soldier's Reminiscences. Ii

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 June 1871 · page 8

I WROTE of senior officers bullying or insulting junior ones, not of officers of the same rank bullying and insulting one another. Colonel A. and Colonel B. might each be equally hard upon Ensign C., but…

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Report of the Communist Minister of War. Paris, April 14, Noon

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 June 1871 · page 5

General Cluseret has addressed the following report to the Commune, dated yesterday, the 13th instant:— "I have just returned from inspecting the southern forts and the line of defence generally from Montrouge to La…

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Civil War in France

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 June 1871 · page 457
Also in Freeman's Journal

When the mail left, on 2lst April, severe fighting and cannonading were incessant around Paris. The Commune was making extensive preparations for resistance…

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The Civil War in France

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 June 1871 · page 22

When the mail left, on 21st April, severe fighting and cannouading were incessant around Paris. The Commune was no was making extensive preparations for resistance…

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Avar and Christianity. an Address From the Religious Society of Friends in Great Britain on the Present War

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 10 June 1871 · page 3

The present is a solemn crisis in the history of the world. Our hearts are filled with grief at the appalling waste of human life, at the amount of wretchedness arid woe, which, within the…

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Arrival of the Mail. Latest Telegrams! Horrible Catastrophe! Rapid Publicans ! Uncivil War in France ! Shelling in and Shelling Out! South Sea Slavery Trade! Lucifer in a Burning Rage ! Awful News for Matchmakers ! Alarming Intelligence!

Sydney Punch · Saturday 10 June 1871 · page 4

MISS TABITHA TIMMINS' favorite tabby, who at the fatal time was parient of fifteen kittens, has been cat-alepsied by an overdose of colonial preserved meat. To the end of her caudal extremity was attached, on parchment, the following epigrammatic and touching…

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Men-of-war on the Station

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 June 1871 · page 7
Also in Empire

Rosario, 3 guns, Commander Challis, at New Zealand. Virago, 6 guns, Commander Murray, at New Zealand, bound for England. Blanche, 8 guns, Commander Montgomery, on a cruise to South…

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An Adventure During the Late War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 June 1871 · page 3

A NEPHEW of Dr. Woolls, of Parramatta, had a very narrow escape from being shot by the Prussians during the late Franco-Prussian war. It appears that about a year since, M. Maurice F—, the gentleman in question…

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