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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
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NEWS from Cape Coast to the 27th of last month states that Sir Garnet Wolseley and his staff are gone to the Prah…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A correspondent of the Standard, writing from Cape Coast Castle on the 9th October, says:— " The intelligence is that the King of Ashantee, hearing that we were about to march upon…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →THE appearance upon these shores of a fresh officer for the Popish battalion quartered amongst us seems to indicate war, and if may judge from what has already fallen from his…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Despatches from Cape Coast Castle, December 18th, state that a bridge has been constructed ever the Prah…
Continued on Trove, page 86 →Sir Gamet Wolseley has commenced active operations against the Ashantees by destroying four villages which had been used by the enemy as depots for arms and ammunition. As a means of secrecy it was announced that Sir…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEWS has been received from the Cape Coast to the 3rd instant. The troops landed had started to cross the river Prah, and Captain Glover's expedition was advancing in concert with them…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →I Received in Sydney, January 21st, 11.54. p.m. The Univers, the Paris Ultramontane paper, has been suspended for two months, for publishing the pastoral of Bishop Perigueux. France has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir Garnet Wolseley has commenced active operations against the Ashantees by destroying four villages which had been used by the enemy as depots for arms and ammunition. As a means of secresy it was announced that Sir…
Continued on Trove, page 112 →News has been received from the Cape Coast to the 3rd instant. The troops landed had started to cross the river Prah, and Captain Glover's expedition was advancing in concert with them…
Continued on Trove, page 124 →NEWS from Cape Coast to the 27th of last month states that Sir Garnet Wolseley and his staff are gone to the Prah…
Continued on Trove, page 124 →WHILE some of our contemporaries were never tired of congratulating the country on the extraordinary vigour displayed by the authorities in their preparations for the Ashantee war, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News received from the Cape Coast under date 11th instant states that the troops continue to advance steadily towards Coomassie, and that their health is good…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News received from the Cape Coast under date 11th instant states that the troops continue to advance steadily towards Coomassie, and that their health is good…
Continued on Trove, page 154 →The Dutch forces have captured Kratou…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →General Wolseley and the British forces under his command reached the River Prah on the 1st January. About an hour after his arrival he was met by ambassadors from the King of Ashantee,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A VERY lengthy Royal Warrant has just been issued effecting an entire change in the old rates of pay, beer money, and stoppages for rations of non-commissioned officers and soldiers in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An official report from Cape Coast Castle states that, on the 19th January, the Ashantee King sent a German missionary to treat with General Wolseley for peace…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →