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... fire - The zariba de- molished - A wild confusion of Highlanders- " A very good fight " -How our blacks fought - A masterpiece of a battle 140 XVIII . LOSSES AND GAINS . From boys to men - Mahmud and the Sirdar - The Camerons ' losses ...
... fire - The zariba de- molished - A wild confusion of Highlanders- " A very good fight " -How our blacks fought - A masterpiece of a battle 140 XVIII . LOSSES AND GAINS . From boys to men - Mahmud and the Sirdar - The Camerons ' losses ...
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... fire low - and in the morning woke up rather less than a hundred miles on our way . But then the first hundred miles is all up - hill , though the gradient is nowhere difficult . The train ran beauti- fully , for while the surface sand ...
... fire low - and in the morning woke up rather less than a hundred miles on our way . But then the first hundred miles is all up - hill , though the gradient is nowhere difficult . The train ran beauti- fully , for while the surface sand ...
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... marble to sit still and fire to smite ; steadfast , cold , and inflexible ; the man who has cut out his human heart and made himself a machine to retake Khartum . VII . ARMS AND MEN . THE campaign of 1897 52 THE SIRDAR .
... marble to sit still and fire to smite ; steadfast , cold , and inflexible ; the man who has cut out his human heart and made himself a machine to retake Khartum . VII . ARMS AND MEN . THE campaign of 1897 52 THE SIRDAR .
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... fire from men who would far rather have killed themselves than him . In the cam- paigns of '96 and '97 he was intrusted with a brigade ; he showed a rare gift for the handling of troops , and wherever the fighting was hardest there was ...
... fire from men who would far rather have killed themselves than him . In the cam- paigns of '96 and '97 he was intrusted with a brigade ; he showed a rare gift for the handling of troops , and wherever the fighting was hardest there was ...
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... how would you like to have to set to work getting wood to make your fire and water to cook your dinner ? How would you like to march with baggage - camels , so slow that they poach all your sleep ? Especially , how would you like to be.
... how would you like to have to set to work getting wood to make your fire and water to cook your dinner ? How would you like to march with baggage - camels , so slow that they poach all your sleep ? Especially , how would you like to be.
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