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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
302 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 16
SIR,--Your late articles upon the miseries and wickedness of war are not a wit too severe, but justice seems scarcely clone to Prussia, for however guilty she may be in respect to Denmark,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A PRUSSIAN CONQUEST…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →IT now seems certain that the battles in which toe French were decidedly victorious, and which resulted in the evacuation of Orleans by General Von der Tann, are unlikely to have any serious strategic influence on the result of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →As pretty a piece of satire is now to be seen in several booksellers' shops, as can well be conceived. Cheek by jowl with the photographs of Generals of the Prussian army and Generals of the French army is to be seen that of Charles Dickens. Mr. PUNCH thinks that herein…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,--There can be no doubt that the Prussians have shown an amount of enthusiasm in the present Franco-Prussian war seldom before shewn by one nation against another. This…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Cork correspondent reports that an inquest was held at the military barracks on the body of Wm. Gibson, a private of the 1st Royal Dragoons, who died from a fracture…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →RETREAT OF GENERAL DER TANN,—The military correspondent of the Silesian Gazette has furnished. some information with respected to the retroat of General Von der Tann. He says that the first corps…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →DURING the year 1870 there were built, or ordered to he built, for the British Navy, fifteen ironclad men-of-war. Of these the Sultan, 12 guns, 5234 tons, 200 horse-power, built at Chatham, and launched…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →M. THIERS has given to the great neutral Powers, through their ambassadors at Tours, a full account of his attempt to negotiate an armistice. It has been known here for a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rosario, 3 guns, Commander Challis, at Sydney. Virago, 6 guns, Commander Murray, on a cruise. Blanche, 8 guns, Commander Montgomery, at New Zealand. Clio, 21 guns, Commmodo[?] Stirling, on a cruise…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DURING the year 1870 there were built, or ordered to be built, for the British Navy, fifteen ironclad menof-war. Of these the Sultan, 12 guns, 5234 tons, 200 horse-power, built at Chatham, and launched…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AN early scene in Macbeth brings upon the stage "a bleeding soldier," who sets forth, for the information of King Duncan, particulars of the victory obtained by Macbeth over the rebels…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →RETREAT OF GENERAL DER TANN:—The military correspondent of the Silesian Gazette has furnished some information with respect to the retreat of General Von der Tann. He says that the first corps…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →THE EMPRESS AND THE CAPITULATION OF METZ.--M. Regnier, the M. or N. of the "Strange Story," has published the history of that intrigue in a pamphlet. It appears certain from this statement, if…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"I am informed, on good authority, that the Turkish ironclads could not possibly leave the Inner Horn for months, and that it would take them still longer to get out into the Eu[?]ine. They have not coal enough…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A FRANC-TIREUR…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AN early scene in Macbeth brings upon the stage "a bleeding soldier," who sets forth, for the information of King Duncan, particulars of the victory obtained by Macbeth over the rebels…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →WE co[?] we should be glad to see some more decided indications that the Admiralty, aware of the gravity of the present condition of affairs on the Continent and of the Eastern que[?]tion, were making…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Times correspondent, Mr. Russell, at the Prussian head-quarters at Versailles, writes:—The uprising of France at the moment when her last shaft was spent, when sword and lance were broken, her…
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