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The wars & local soldiers, 1879

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The Zulu War

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 August 1879 · page 9

LONDON, August 3.—Sir Garnet Wolseley is now engaged dividing Zululand into principalities. British, influence is in future to be exercised Over the territory thus divided…

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The Zulu War London. Aug. 3

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 August 1879 · page 222

The latest advices from Cape Town state that Undini and Magurni, two important Zulu kraals, have been burnt, and Dubalamanzi and a number of important chiefs have…

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The Zulu War. (Reuter's Messages.) London, August 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 August 1879 · page 5

Despatches from Sir Garnet Wolseley have been published, stating that the prospects of an early settlement of peace preliminaries were good, but that quiet and security were…

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The Cost of the Zulu War. London, July 31

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 August 1879 · page 222

In the House of Commons this evening, a supplementary army estimate of £3,000,000 was asked for by the Government to meet the expenses of the Zulu war. This converts Sir…

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Telegraphic News. [By Submarine Cable.] the Zulu War. London, August 7

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 August 1879 · page 5

The latest news from Capetown states that General Clark and Sir Garnet Wolseley are about proceeding to Ulundi, which is being re-occupied by the British. General Newdigate, commanding…

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The War Between Chili and PERU

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 August 1879 · page 7

The Consul for Peru, in this city (Mr. Ernest O. Smith), received by the last Californian mail a despatch from the Minister for Foreign Affairs at Lima. The despatch is addressed to the Diplomatic and Consular corps of Peru, in…

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The Zulu War

Evening News · Saturday 16 August 1879 · page 4
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LONDON, August 13.—Sir Garnet Wolseley has mobolised his forces and commenced to again advance on Ulundi, with the view of completely destroying the Zula power and making Celewayo…

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The South American War

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 August 1879 · page 7

There seems to be more than a common amount of ignorance in these colonies, if we take the sub-leader of a morning contemporary of the 12th instant, as an authority on the subject. There it is stated…

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The Zulu War. London, August 7

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 August 1879 · page 261

Despatches from Sir Garnet Wolseley have been published, stating that the prospects of an early settlement of peace preliminaries were good, but that quiet and security were…

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The Zulu War. London, August 14

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 August 1879 · page 5

Intelligence has been received from the seat of war, dated Cape Town, July 29. It is announced that for the reasons stated in the recent despatch from Sir Garnet Wolseley to the Secretary of State…

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The Zulu War. (Reuter's Cablegram.) London, Aug. 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 August 1879 · page 5

Intelligence from the seat of war, dated Cape Town, 29th July, announces that for reasons stated in a recent despatch from Sir Garnet Wolseley to the Secretary…

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Monument at Lewes to Russian Prisoners of War

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 August 1879 · page 249

A massive monument to the memory of the 28 Finlanders who died in Lewes prison while prisoners of war daring the Russian campaign has just been completed in St. John's Churchyard, Lewes, by orders…

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The War Between Chile and Peru. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 August 1879 · page 7

Sir,—Although I consider it highly impolitic to publish any despatches which the Minister for Foreign Affairs at Santiago de Chile may see fit to address to this Consulate, justice to the country I have had the honour to represent…

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Newspapers: their Needs, Tendencies, and Possibilities. (Continued from our last.) Before the War and After

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 August 1879 · page 246

But figures are after all more convincing than mere description. I have selected as the year affording the fairest data for a comparison with the present times, the year before the election which precipitated…

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The Zulu War

Evening News · Monday 18 August 1879 · page 2

LONDON, August 14.-The latest official information from the seat of war at the Cape announces that Cetewayo has at length made overtures of peace to Sir Garnet Wolseley, and…

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The Zulu War. (Reuter's Cablegram.) London, August 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 August 1879 · page 5

The latest official information from the seat of war at the Cape announces that Cetewayo has at length made overtures of peace to Sir Garnet Wolseley, and has sent messengers to…

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The South American War. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 August 1879 · page 3

Sir,--My attention has just been called to an article in your to-day's (16th) issue, headed "The South American War." It has evidently been penned by a very lukewarm advocate of either party, as the…

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The Zulu War

Evening News · Saturday 23 August 1879 · page 4

LONDON, Friday.—The latest intelligence from the Cape states that Sir Garnet Wolseley arrived at Rorke's Drift on the 8rd, joining the second column under Colonel Baker Russell,…

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The War Between Chile and PERU

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 August 1879 · page 7

In our issue of the llth instant we published a circular despatch addressed by the Government of Peru to all its representatives in foreign countries in reference to the war between the two republics of Peru and Chile. We now…

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