General Lord Wolseley (of Cairo): A MemoirBentley, 1883 - 482 pages |
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... Egypt appearing to call for a new edition , I have written a sketch of his services from that date up to the present time . This volume ... Egyptian Campaign , has been written without any assistance from previously published works , for.
... Egypt appearing to call for a new edition , I have written a sketch of his services from that date up to the present time . This volume ... Egyptian Campaign , has been written without any assistance from previously published works , for.
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... Egypt , has published the official account of the campaign , in which I understand he is engaged . I take this oppor ... Egyptian Campaign is written . ' PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION . him in Zululand , iv PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION .
... Egypt , has published the official account of the campaign , in which I understand he is engaged . I take this oppor ... Egyptian Campaign is written . ' PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION . him in Zululand , iv PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION .
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... Egypt , he carried through , to the letter , the programme of operations he had marked out before leaving this country . This punctuality is not the least surprising feature of his conduct of the war , but it is one that has always ...
... Egypt , he carried through , to the letter , the programme of operations he had marked out before leaving this country . This punctuality is not the least surprising feature of his conduct of the war , but it is one that has always ...
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... Egypt on the dates marked out by him while in England ; thus conducting the move- ments of armies and the combinations of war with the regu- larity of clock - work . As far as we are aware , in no age and by no general has the practice ...
... Egypt on the dates marked out by him while in England ; thus conducting the move- ments of armies and the combinations of war with the regu- larity of clock - work . As far as we are aware , in no age and by no general has the practice ...
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... Egypt , and the greater ease with which the complicated machine having its motive - power in Pall Mall , now moves under ... Egyptian army during the brief struggle at Tel - el - Kebir , when it was surprised out of sleep by the fierce ...
... Egypt , and the greater ease with which the complicated machine having its motive - power in Pall Mall , now moves under ... Egyptian army during the brief struggle at Tel - el - Kebir , when it was surprised out of sleep by the fierce ...
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advance Alumbagh arms army arrived Artillery Ashantee battalion batteries boats Boers British Cairo camp campaign canal canoe Cape Coast Captain Wolseley capture carried cavalry chief Colonel Wolseley Colonial column command Coomassie crossed Cyprus despatch detachment Dragoon Guards duty Egyptian Elmina embarked enemy enemy's Engineers England European expedition fighting flank following day following morning force Fort Frances Fort Garry French front gallant garrison Garry Government guns halted heavy Highlanders honour Horse Household Cavalry Indian Ismailia Kassassin killed King Lake land Lieutenant Lord Wolseley Lucknow Major ment miles military Mounted Infantry Natal Native Naval Brigade night officers passed portage position Prah proceeded rebels received Red River Regiment Rifle Brigade right attack road round shot Royal Russians Sappers sent Sir Archibald Alison Sir Garnet Wolseley Sir Hope Grant soldiers staff success Tel-el-Kebir tion transport troops village Winnipeg River Wolseley's working-party wounded yards
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Page 155 - Her majesty's government, therefore, trust that when this matter shall have been brought under the consideration of the government of the United States that government will, of its own accord, offer to the British government such redress as alone could satisfy the British nation, namely, the liberation of the four gentlemen and their delivery to your lordship, in order that they may again be placed under British protection, and a suitable apology for the aggression which has been committed.
Page 265 - He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake; 'tis true, this god did shake...
Page 312 - That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster...
Page 265 - I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas, it cried ' Give me some drink, Titinius,
Page 244 - A scholard, when just from his college broke loose, Can hardly tell how to cry bo to a goose; Your Noveds, and Bluturks, and Omurs,9 and stuff By G — , they don't signify this pinch of snuff. To give a young gentleman right education, The army's the only good school in the nation...
Page 156 - The four persons in question are now held in military custody at Fort Warren, in the State of Massachusetts. They will be cheerfully liberated. Your lordship will please indicate a time and place for receiving them.
Page 244 - G — , they don't signify this pinch of snuff. To give a young gentleman right education, The army's the only good school in the nation : My schoolmaster call'd me a dunce and a fool, But at cuffs I was always the cock of the school ; I never could take to my book for the blood o' me, And the puppy confess'd he expected no good o
Page 175 - Lee's headquarters consisted of about seven or eight pole tents, pitched with their backs to a stake fence, upon a piece of ground so rocky that it was unpleasant to ride over it— its only recommendation being a little stream of good water which flowed close by the General's tent. In front of the tents were some three or four wheeled waggons, drawn up without any regularity, and a number of horses roamed loose about the field.
Page 176 - ... them in the kindest terms. He spoke as a man proud of the victories won by his country, and confident of ultimate success under the blessing of the Almighty, whom he glorified for past successes, and whose aid he invoked for all future operations.
Page 238 - WELLINGTON. Wellington Prize Essays on "the System of Field Manoeuvres best adapted for enabling our Troops to meet a Continental Army.