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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... years , understood and appreciated Mick better . Captain Coleman knew that he had come limping up out of that crazy gallop along “ the $ B valley of death " with a sword red from hilt How "THE CRAYTURE" GOT ON THE STRENGTH.
... years , understood and appreciated Mick better . Captain Coleman knew that he had come limping up out of that crazy gallop along “ the $ B valley of death " with a sword red from hilt How "THE CRAYTURE" GOT ON THE STRENGTH.
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... knew , and he had to tell her , that they must part at the port of embarkation . But " the Crayture , " as Mick called her , was resolute to go thus far . Poll Tudor and Bess Bowles , accredited spouses , " married women on the strength ...
... knew , and he had to tell her , that they must part at the port of embarkation . But " the Crayture , " as Mick called her , was resolute to go thus far . Poll Tudor and Bess Bowles , accredited spouses , " married women on the strength ...
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... knew as Sir Herbert Macpherson , V.C. " What is your name , my man ? " asked Mac- pherson of Sullivan . " Michael Donald Mactavish Sullivan , sor , " re- C sponded Mick , with a face as solemn as a GOT ON THE STRENGTH 17.
... knew as Sir Herbert Macpherson , V.C. " What is your name , my man ? " asked Mac- pherson of Sullivan . " Michael Donald Mactavish Sullivan , sor , " re- C sponded Mick , with a face as solemn as a GOT ON THE STRENGTH 17.
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... knew her as " the Crayture " has gone ; but the quiet faith- ful courage that sustained her on the weary line of march and the forlorn - hope expedition to the East , is staunch still in her honest heart . The sergeant- major of to ...
... knew her as " the Crayture " has gone ; but the quiet faith- ful courage that sustained her on the weary line of march and the forlorn - hope expedition to the East , is staunch still in her honest heart . The sergeant- major of to ...
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... knew from personal experience , was a great help in enabling a fellow to resist " hollerin ' out . " Presently the escort fell in and marched the prisoner to the riding - school . Sholto found there two troops of the regiment drawn up ...
... knew from personal experience , was a great help in enabling a fellow to resist " hollerin ' out . " Presently the escort fell in and marched the prisoner to the riding - school . Sholto found there two troops of the regiment drawn up ...
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