All Sir Garnet: A Life of Field-Marshal Lord Wolseley"Field Marshal Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, KP, GCB, OM, GCMG, VD, PC (4 June 1833 ? 25 March 1913) was an Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army. He served in Burma, the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, China, Canada, and widely throughout Africa ? including his Ashanti campaign (1873?1874) and the Nile Expedition against Mahdist Sudan in 1884-85. He served as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces from 1895 to 1900. His reputation for efficiency led to the late 19th-century English phrase "everything's all Sir Garnet", meaning "all is in order.""--Wikipedia. |
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... knew that it took more than clothes to make a soldier . And these were soldiers , vigorous and healthy , with an elastic tread ; more than a match , he believed , for the mobs of Irish and German mercenaries who fought for fifteen ...
... knew that it took more than clothes to make a soldier . And these were soldiers , vigorous and healthy , with an elastic tread ; more than a match , he believed , for the mobs of Irish and German mercenaries who fought for fifteen ...
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... knew anything about boats . When he replied that he had been a ' wet bob ' at Eton for four years , Wolseley told the young Anglo - Irishman to join a party of militia . The personnel of the force was completed when Mr Dawson , an ...
... knew anything about boats . When he replied that he had been a ' wet bob ' at Eton for four years , Wolseley told the young Anglo - Irishman to join a party of militia . The personnel of the force was completed when Mr Dawson , an ...
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... knew better than to ask the Duke's assistance in gaining their services . In fact , so that the Duke would not ... knew in- finitely more about West Africa before sailing for Cape Coast Castle than he knew of Cyprus . Deprived of all ...
... knew better than to ask the Duke's assistance in gaining their services . In fact , so that the Duke would not ... knew in- finitely more about West Africa before sailing for Cape Coast Castle than he knew of Cyprus . Deprived of all ...
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