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The wars & local soldiers, 1877

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Another Dreadful Disaster. Fall of Moore's Opera House in Sacramento. Seven Hundred Persons Precipitated to the Floor Below—seven Known to Be Dead, and 150 Wounded List of the Wounded

Evening News · Thursday 4 January 1877 · page 2

A LITTLE after eight o'clock, saturday night Moore's Opera House, on Second Street, between K and L in this city, was the scene of a most frightful accident, resulting in the death and injury of…

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Russia and the War

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 6 January 1877 · page 7

The following is an extract from a letter of a resident in Moscow:—" There is no news in Moscow except with regard to Servia. Which is the all absorbing topic of the day…

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The Atchin War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1877 · page 8

According to the Amsterdam correspondent of the Kolnische Zeitung, the Dutch war in die northern part of Sumatra has already cost a hundred million florins and ten thousand men. If so the loss to the Kingdom of the,…

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Naval. Men-of-war on the Station

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 January 1877 · page 10

Nymphe, 9 ([?]uns, Captain Franois G. Suttie, at Sydney. Pearl, 17 g[?]s, Commodore Hoskins, at Sydney. Sapphire, [?] guns, Captain E. H. Murray, on a cruise. Sappho, 4 [?]ns, Commander N. S. F. Digby, at Sydney…

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The Atchin War

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 January 1877 · page 55

According to the Amsterdam correspondent of the Kolnische Zeitung, the Dutch war in the northern part of Sumatra bas already cost a hundred million florins and ten thousand men. If so the loss to the Kingdom of the…

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Naval. Men-of-war on the Station

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 January 1877 · page 7

Nymphe, 9 guns, Captain Francis G. Suttie, at Sydney. Sapphire, 14 guns, Captain E. H. Murray, on a cruise. Sappho, 4 guns, Commander N. S. F. Digby, at Sydney. Beagle, 1 gun, Lieut.-Com. Caffin, on a cruise…

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Home and Foreign. England. What Armies the Great Powers Could Rely on in Case of War

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 January 1877 · page 5

Some notes upon the armanents of the several great European Powers may not be without interest at this moment. England.—England has a regular army…

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Quarantine—ships of War. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 January 1877 · page 5

SIR,—It is currently reported that the Commodore and Sir Hercules Robinson are of opinion that her Majesty's vessels ard not within the Quarantine laws. It is probable that [?] report is correct in as much as for some days past the…

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Mr John Bright on Peace and War

Evening News · Tuesday 30 January 1877 · page 3

At a Peace Conference recently held at Philadelphia, the following [?] from Mr. John bright was read:—Dear Friend Daniel Hill-I cannot come to your conference and I do not feel that I…

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Naval. Men-of-war on the Station

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 February 1877 · page 10

Nymphe, 9 guns, Captain Francis G. Suttie, at Western Australia. Sapphire, 14 guns, Captain E. H. Murray, on a cruise. Sappho, 4 guns, Commander N. S. F. Digby, at Sydney…

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Privateering in Case of War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 February 1877 · page 5

IF the complications on the Eastern question should by any chance eventuate in England and Russia taking opposite sides in case of war, the possibility of the latter power resorting to letters of marque is an…

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Privateering in Case of War

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 17 February 1877 · page 218

IN the complications on the Eastern question should by any chance eventuate in England And Russia taking opposite sides in case of war, the possibility of the latter power resorting to letters of marque is an…

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Mr. John Bright on Peace and War

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 17 February 1877 · page 27

At a Peace Conference recently held at Philadelphia, the following letter from Mr. John Bright was read:—Dear Friend Daniel Hill, I cannot come to your confe ence, and I do not feel that I…

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German Man of War

Evening News · Monday 19 February 1877 · page 2

Yesterday was a very lively and merry day on board the Augusta. From early noon till sunset the boatmen at the Govennor's steps were continually plying with passengers, more especially of our German…

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German Man of War. [?] Visited by [?]

Evening News · Friday 23 February 1877 · page 3

It is seldom that our waters are German corvette (in truth many years have gone by [?] occurred), but it must be con[?] lately…

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England's Power Foe War. (From the Birmingham Gazette.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 February 1877 · page 6

THERE is a rather silly, and certainly very impious proverb, to the effect that Providence is on the side of the biggest battalions; and so much has been heard about "big battalions" of late years that it can hardly…

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Society of VIA Soldiers

Evening News · Saturday 24 February 1877 · page 4

The Society of Old Soldiers (Kreiger-Verein) in Pollnow, a little Pomeranian town at the neighbourhood of [?], where more than 90 yon ago General Field-Marshal Wrangel was born, has conferred its honorary…

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Privateering in Case of War. (From the United Service Gazette, December 16)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 February 1877 · page 6

IT is no secret that a very strong feeling pervades the Russian people in favour of attacking British commerce by privateering in the event of war. We are informed through the…

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French Soldiers in Alsace and Lorraine. London, March 11

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 March 1877 · page 5

Discharged French soldiers have been ordered to leave Alsace and Lorraine, unless they consent to depationalise themselves…

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War in Turkey

Evening News · Friday 23 March 1877 · page 2

We publish in another column an important cable manage, dated Singapore, March 22, stating that Turkey has again commenced hostilities against Rosma the N. W. Province of European Turkey and that…

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