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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... course of the night . The regimental sergeant- major was a very old bird , and straightway com- municated to the adjutant his ideas as to the nature of Mick's little game . Then the pair concerted a scheme whereby they might baulk him ...
... course of the night . The regimental sergeant- major was a very old bird , and straightway com- municated to the adjutant his ideas as to the nature of Mick's little game . Then the pair concerted a scheme whereby they might baulk him ...
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... course of a few hours ; to say that his nose was simply " bashed " is very inadequately to describe the condition of that feature ; his lower lip was split and streaming with blood ; and he carried in his left hand a couple of front ...
... course of a few hours ; to say that his nose was simply " bashed " is very inadequately to describe the condition of that feature ; his lower lip was split and streaming with blood ; and he carried in his left hand a couple of front ...
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... course the young soldier went with his regiment . Those were the days before big Indian troopships and the Suez Canal ; reinforce- ments for India went out round the Cape . Sholto's troop was accompanied by two married women who were on ...
... course the young soldier went with his regiment . Those were the days before big Indian troopships and the Suez Canal ; reinforce- ments for India went out round the Cape . Sholto's troop was accompanied by two married women who were on ...
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... course you deny it ? " " I do , sir , if it were the last word I had to say on earth ! " " Mr. Kidson , " said the old soldier in a dry business tone , " will you state what you know about this matter ? " Thus enjoined , Kidson briefly ...
... course you deny it ? " " I do , sir , if it were the last word I had to say on earth ! " " Mr. Kidson , " said the old soldier in a dry business tone , " will you state what you know about this matter ? " Thus enjoined , Kidson briefly ...
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... course a " purser's " name ) had killed the Cossack who had speared me , and cut down another who was in the act of skewering me from behind . Farther up the valley I believe I saved his life when the cannon - shot that bowled over his ...
... course a " purser's " name ) had killed the Cossack who had speared me , and cut down another who was in the act of skewering me from behind . Farther up the valley I believe I saved his life when the cannon - shot that bowled over his ...
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