Australia Since the Camera, Volumes 1-3Cheshire, 1972 - History |
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Gold in the West The shadows of depression still lay heavily over the eastern colonies , when two prospectors in Western Australia , Arthur Bayley and William Ford , found gold in a native well called Coolgardie , about 395 miles east ...
Gold in the West The shadows of depression still lay heavily over the eastern colonies , when two prospectors in Western Australia , Arthur Bayley and William Ford , found gold in a native well called Coolgardie , about 395 miles east ...
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... Depression and the great strikes of the 1890s were over , but their memory gnawed at the buoyant mood . There were about 7,000 men ( and a similar number of horses ) involved in the South African War at a time when there were millions ...
... Depression and the great strikes of the 1890s were over , but their memory gnawed at the buoyant mood . There were about 7,000 men ( and a similar number of horses ) involved in the South African War at a time when there were millions ...
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... depression and horror . Some 250,000 British soldiers had been sacrificed for a few square miles of mud and , writing in the 1930s , Liddell Hart said : ' In the swamps of the Somme and Passchendaele was squandered the faith which ...
... depression and horror . Some 250,000 British soldiers had been sacrificed for a few square miles of mud and , writing in the 1930s , Liddell Hart said : ' In the swamps of the Somme and Passchendaele was squandered the faith which ...
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