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... Colonel Wingate 53 VIII . IN THE BRITISH CAMP . A great march under difficulties -- A gunner's adventure - The boot scandal - Official explanations and admissions - Making the men hard - The general's morning ride - The camp in a dust ...
... Colonel Wingate 53 VIII . IN THE BRITISH CAMP . A great march under difficulties -- A gunner's adventure - The boot scandal - Official explanations and admissions - Making the men hard - The general's morning ride - The camp in a dust ...
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... Colonel Wodehouse and the Halfa garrison threw him back into the desert again . Ne- jumi pushed on southward , certain of death , certain of Paradise . At Toski Grenfell brought him to battle with the flower of the Egyptian army . At ...
... Colonel Wodehouse and the Halfa garrison threw him back into the desert again . Ne- jumi pushed on southward , certain of death , certain of Paradise . At Toski Grenfell brought him to battle with the flower of the Egyptian army . At ...
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... Colonel Holled - Smith marched against Osman Digna's base outside Suakim , the oasis of Tokat . The Dervishes sprang upon him at Afafit , but the days of surprise and panic were over . They were rolled back and shattered to pieces ...
... Colonel Holled - Smith marched against Osman Digna's base outside Suakim , the oasis of Tokat . The Dervishes sprang upon him at Afafit , but the days of surprise and panic were over . They were rolled back and shattered to pieces ...
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... white sergeant knows how not to see unpleasant- ness till it is absolutely unavoidable ; then he knows how to go quietly to his colonel and assert his posi- B tion without publicly humiliating his superior . When you hear.
... white sergeant knows how not to see unpleasant- ness till it is absolutely unavoidable ; then he knows how to go quietly to his colonel and assert his posi- B tion without publicly humiliating his superior . When you hear.
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... colonel ( Kaimakam ) commanding each battalion is usually a captain or major in the British army , and the Bimbashis usually subalterns : so many of both ranks , however , have earned brevets or been promoted , that in talking of ...
... colonel ( Kaimakam ) commanding each battalion is usually a captain or major in the British army , and the Bimbashis usually subalterns : so many of both ranks , however , have earned brevets or been promoted , that in talking of ...
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