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The wars & local soldiers, 1876

163 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 9

The Indians on the War Path

Evening News · Tuesday 20 June 1876 · page 3

Chicago, May 12.-Reports from the frontier still tell of Indian outrages. Several trains have been attacked recently, but a few lives lost. The savages have, to all appearances, abandoned the…

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War Vessels to Join the Mediterranean Fleet

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 June 1876 · page 7

London, May 22.—The Standard says:—We understand that the Admiral commanding the Channel squadron has received telegraphic instructions countermanding previous orders for the squadron to…

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Arrival of the English Mail Via Suez. Important News. the Sultan of Turkey Dethroned. European Fleets in the Mediterranean. the British Fleet Ordered to the Dardanelles. England's Policy Is the Maintenance of Peace. England Declines to Subscribe to the Berlin Note. Lloyds Demand War Risks on Insurance. a Peaceful Solution of the Eastern Question May Be Probable. the Liberal Policy of the New Sultan. [From Our Telegraphic Correspondent.] Adelaide, Thursday, 7 P.m

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 June 1876 · page 5

THE P. and O. steamer China, Captain Almond, arrived at Glenelg this afternoon. She left Gaile on June 3, and had a fair passage. Mr. Bayley, purser…

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Fears of War

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 June 1876 · page 816

SOME alarm was created on Monday by the publication of a telegram from Auckland, stating, on the authority of San Francisco papers, that the British Channel fleet had been ordered to be in readiness to…

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War in Central America

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 June 1876 · page 827

General Medina issued a proclamation the 1st of April, in his character of President of Honduras, making common cause with Guatemala and declaring war against Salvador…

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The Indians on the War Path

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 June 1876 · page 27

Chicago, May 12.—Reports from the frontier still tell of Indian outrages. Several trains have been attacked recently, but a few lives lost. The savages have, to all appearances, abandoned the…

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War, Vessels to Join the Mediterranean Fleet

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 24 June 1876 · page 826

London, May 22.—The Standard says:—We understand that the Admiral commanding the Channel squadron has received telegraphic instructions countermanding previous orders for the squadron to…

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Launch of the New War-ship Inflexible

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 June 1876 · page 8

FROM the Hampshire Telegraph and Sussex chronicle we extract a description of the new war turret ship Inflexible, which was launched at Portsmouth Dockyard, on the 27th of April last:—…

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England. War Vessels to Join the Mediterranean Fleet

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 24 June 1876 · page 5

London, May 22—The Standard says : — We understand that the Admiral commanding the Channel squadron has received telegraphic instructions countermanding…

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The Eastern Crisis. Indications That the Sultan Will Abdicate the Throne—war Vessels in the Mediterranean

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 24 June 1876 · page 26

London, May 22nd.—A dispatch from Berlin says intelligence has been received in official quarters there from Constantinople which indicates that the Sultan will probably be compelled to…

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Morano, the Papal Devotee and Soldier

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 24 June 1876 · page 5

The history of Garcia Morano, late President of Ecuador, illustrates Popery as eulogised by Papists ; and his sad end indicates the doom of those Statesmen, who, neglecting their duty to…

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Naval. Mem-of-war on the Station

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 June 1876 · page 10

Baracouta, 6 guns, Captain [?] E. Stevens, at Sydney. Nymphe, 9 guns, Captain Francis G. Sutti[?] on a cruise. Pearl, 17 guns, Commodore Hoskins, at Sydney. Sapphire, 14 guns, Captain E. H. Murray, on a cruise…

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Naval. Men-of-war on the Station

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 July 1876 · page 8

Baracouta, 6 guns, Captain C. E. Stevens, at Sydney Nymphe, 9 guns, Captain Francis G. Suttie, on a cruise. Pearl, 17 guns, Commodore Hoskins, at Sydney. Sapphire, 14 guns, Captain E. H. Murray, on a cruise…

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The Fears of War

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 July 1876 · page 80

THE latest news from Europe—namely, that brought by the Torres Straits mail, to June 15th—tends to remove the apprehensions f immediate danger which were excited some weeks ago by the reports of…

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France. the French Soldier of to Day

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 July 1876 · page 5

A Versailles Letter in the Pall Mall Gazette says:—If the French Government do not succeed in obtaining a good army, it will not be for want of drilling and otherwise…

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Turkey. Terrible Outrages Committed by Turkish Soldiers in Bulgaria

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 July 1876 · page 7

A letter from Eski-Zaghra, in the large, industrious, and comparatively inoffensive ; province of Bulgaria, tells us that at Sulmulchi, a village of that district, the Turks…

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The Yeumburra Murder. Committal Ol "Tom the Soldier."

Evening News · Friday 21 July 1876 · page 3

AT the Queanbeyan Police Court on Friday last, before the police magistrate, William Hutton, charged with the wilful murder of Jeremiah M'Arthy, at Youmburra, was brought up for further examination…

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Naval. Men-of-war on the Station

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 July 1876 · page 10

Baracouta, 6 guns, Captain [?]. E. Stevens, on a cruise. Nymphe, 9 guns, Captain Francis G. Suttie, on a cruise. Pearl, 17 guns, Commodore Hoskins, at Sydney. Sapphire, 14 guns, Captain E. H. Murray, at ydney…

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Diorama of American War

Evening News · Thursday 3 August 1876 · page 2

Thompson's Great Southern Diorama of the American war (an exhibition totally distinct from that previously exhibited by Mr. Batchelder, tn Sydney). will be exhibited at the School of Arts for the first time…

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Naval. Men-of-war on the Station

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 August 1876 · page 7

Baraconta, 6 guns, Captain E. Stevens, on a cruise. Nymphe, 9 guns, Captain Francis G. Suttie, on a cruise. Pearl, 17 guns. Commodore Hoskins, at Sydney. Sapphire, 14 guns. Captain E. H. Murray, at [?]dney…

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