Barracks, Bivouacs, and BattlesMick Sullivan was a private soldier in G troop, 30th Light Dragoons, of some six years' service. Since the day old Sergeant Denny Lee 'listed him in Charles Street, just outside the Cheshire Cheese, close by where the Council door of the India Office now is, Mick had never been anything else than a private soldier, and never hoped or needed hope to be anything else if he served out his full twenty-four years, for he could neither read nor write, and his regimental defaulter sheet was much fuller of "marks" than the most lavish barrack-room pudding is of raisins. Nevertheless the Queen had a very good bargain in honest Mick, although that was scarcely the opinion of the adjutant, who was a "jumped-up" youngster, and had not been in the Crimea with the regiment. |
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... into a square which proved a perfect death - trap , and has passed into history as " Doolie Square . " The handful of escorting soldiers , of whom Mick's comrade was one , fought desperately to pro- tect 24 HOW " THE CRAYTURE ”
... into a square which proved a perfect death - trap , and has passed into history as " Doolie Square . " The handful of escorting soldiers , of whom Mick's comrade was one , fought desperately to pro- tect 24 HOW " THE CRAYTURE ”
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... history and the science of war . When the shadow fell upon him , he used to spend much of his time in the stable with his mare . She was rather a notable animal . Desperately wounded as she was in the retreat from the Balaclava Charge ...
... history and the science of war . When the shadow fell upon him , he used to spend much of his time in the stable with his mare . She was rather a notable animal . Desperately wounded as she was in the retreat from the Balaclava Charge ...
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... historical sneer , as they watched the evolutions of the ïmpis in the hazy distance . Magnificent in their swift precision those evolutions certainly were ; but it was not war that the Zulu braves should be wheeling and massing and ...
... historical sneer , as they watched the evolutions of the ïmpis in the hazy distance . Magnificent in their swift precision those evolutions certainly were ; but it was not war that the Zulu braves should be wheeling and massing and ...
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Archibald Forbes. A YARN OF THE " PRESIDENT " FRIGATE CONCERNING the history of the subjoined curious narrative , the original manuscript of which , written in now faded ink on the rough dingy paper of sixty years ago , was placed in my ...
Archibald Forbes. A YARN OF THE " PRESIDENT " FRIGATE CONCERNING the history of the subjoined curious narrative , the original manuscript of which , written in now faded ink on the rough dingy paper of sixty years ago , was placed in my ...
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... history goes clearly to show . Our catastrophe at Isandlwana was due partly to the error of employing loose formation against great masses of bold men , whom a biting fire would deter no whit from advancing ; but resulted in the end ...
... history goes clearly to show . Our catastrophe at Isandlwana was due partly to the error of employing loose formation against great masses of bold men , whom a biting fire would deter no whit from advancing ; but resulted in the end ...
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