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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... to speak , embedded in Turkish territory . The fierce Bosnians threatened her on the west ; Albania marched with her on the south ; on her east loomed Abdul Kerim Pasha from his base at Nisch , and Osman Pasha LA BELLE HÉLÈNE OF ALEXINATZ.
... to speak , embedded in Turkish territory . The fierce Bosnians threatened her on the west ; Albania marched with her on the south ; on her east loomed Abdul Kerim Pasha from his base at Nisch , and Osman Pasha LA BELLE HÉLÈNE OF ALEXINATZ.
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... Turks pushed home their attack on the lines of Djunis , and turned the fire of the captured batteries on Tchernaieff's camp at Deligrad . It should be remembered that Servia began the contest with a single brigade of regular soldiers ...
... Turks pushed home their attack on the lines of Djunis , and turned the fire of the captured batteries on Tchernaieff's camp at Deligrad . It should be remembered that Servia began the contest with a single brigade of regular soldiers ...
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... Turkish camp at Nisch , entered the principality a few miles south - east of the town of Alexinatz . Athwart its ... Turk was to be made . But as that person manifested little activity , and in fact , so far from invading , himself ...
... Turkish camp at Nisch , entered the principality a few miles south - east of the town of Alexinatz . Athwart its ... Turk was to be made . But as that person manifested little activity , and in fact , so far from invading , himself ...
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... Turkish territory , and where from the hill - top on which , with a hand- ful of reckless desperadoes like himself , Captain Protopopoff , a Russian soldier of fortune whom I had already known in the Carlist war , kept watch and ward ...
... Turkish territory , and where from the hill - top on which , with a hand- ful of reckless desperadoes like himself , Captain Protopopoff , a Russian soldier of fortune whom I had already known in the Carlist war , kept watch and ward ...
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... Turks - to Saitschar on the eastern frontier , just in time to be driven out of that place along with Colonel Leschanin and its Servian defenders at the hands of Osman Pasha , abandoning momentarily that curious inactivity of his on the ...
... Turks - to Saitschar on the eastern frontier , just in time to be driven out of that place along with Colonel Leschanin and its Servian defenders at the hands of Osman Pasha , abandoning momentarily that curious inactivity of his on the ...
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