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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... force which was to reconquer India . To Spite of cruel heat , sunstrokes , cholera , and the exhaustion of long marches , the little column pressed on blithely , for the stimulus of hope was in the hearts of the men . But that hope was ...
... force which was to reconquer India . To Spite of cruel heat , sunstrokes , cholera , and the exhaustion of long marches , the little column pressed on blithely , for the stimulus of hope was in the hearts of the men . But that hope was ...
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... force of irregular cavalry which Havelock had gathered from the infantrymen who could ride , while he waited at Cawnpore for reinforcements . As scouts , on recon- naissance duty , in pursuits and in sheer hard fighting , this little ...
... force of irregular cavalry which Havelock had gathered from the infantrymen who could ride , while he waited at Cawnpore for reinforcements . As scouts , on recon- naissance duty , in pursuits and in sheer hard fighting , this little ...
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... force of your strictures , although it might be the opinion of an impartial critic that the fault did not wholly lie with the regiment . The squadron of which your own troop , sir , was a part , was the chief sinner in slackness and ...
... force of your strictures , although it might be the opinion of an impartial critic that the fault did not wholly lie with the regiment . The squadron of which your own troop , sir , was a part , was the chief sinner in slackness and ...
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... force . They did not know the nature of Sir Charles Napier . " It was in my own regiment , then quartered in Meerut , that the first offence was committed after the promulgation of the order . A young private named Creed , who had ...
... force . They did not know the nature of Sir Charles Napier . " It was in my own regiment , then quartered in Meerut , that the first offence was committed after the promulgation of the order . A young private named Creed , who had ...
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... force was fully committed to this movement , it became apparent that because of the intervening ravine , quick inter - communication with Appleyard was rendered difficult . The Afghans in the fort were no fools ; they had recognised the ...
... force was fully committed to this movement , it became apparent that because of the intervening ravine , quick inter - communication with Appleyard was rendered difficult . The Afghans in the fort were no fools ; they had recognised the ...
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