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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... short as a result of that species of infliction known as seven days ' cells . " He had seldom any other crime than " absent without leave , " and he had never been tried by court - martial , although more than once he had had a very ...
... short as a result of that species of infliction known as seven days ' cells . " He had seldom any other crime than " absent without leave , " and he had never been tried by court - martial , although more than once he had had a very ...
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... short man , was very much too short for Mick , and a yard or two of naked leg protruded from below it . Then he had fastened on the sporran behind instead of in front , and it hung down in the former region like a horse's tail . The ...
... short man , was very much too short for Mick , and a yard or two of naked leg protruded from below it . Then he had fastened on the sporran behind instead of in front , and it hung down in the former region like a horse's tail . The ...
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... short march of Cawnpore , came in the dead of night the woful tidings of the massacre of the company of women and children , the forlorn remnant of the Cawnpore garrison whom the Nana Sahib had spared from the butchery of the Slaughter ...
... short march of Cawnpore , came in the dead of night the woful tidings of the massacre of the company of women and children , the forlorn remnant of the Cawnpore garrison whom the Nana Sahib had spared from the butchery of the Slaughter ...
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... short service in the army was a reform undreamed of . When a man ' listed then , it was nominally for life ; actually , until his bodily vigour was so impaired that he was held no longer fit for service , and then he got a pension for ...
... short service in the army was a reform undreamed of . When a man ' listed then , it was nominally for life ; actually , until his bodily vigour was so impaired that he was held no longer fit for service , and then he got a pension for ...
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... short , sharp , and decisive combat . He had heard the bullets patter on the rocks of Ronces- valles , had waded the " bloody Bidassoa " under the shadow of the lofty Rhune , and was only hindered from being in at the death in the final ...
... short , sharp , and decisive combat . He had heard the bullets patter on the rocks of Ronces- valles , had waded the " bloody Bidassoa " under the shadow of the lofty Rhune , and was only hindered from being in at the death in the final ...
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