General Lord Wolseley: (of Cairo). A MemoirR. Bentley, 1883 - 482 pages |
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... Campaign , are also published in this volume for the first time , and , as with the Cyprus chapter , the details may be relied upon , his lordship having kindly re- vised the proof - sheets . As with the Cyprus and South African ...
... Campaign , are also published in this volume for the first time , and , as with the Cyprus chapter , the details may be relied upon , his lordship having kindly re- vised the proof - sheets . As with the Cyprus and South African ...
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... campaign , in which I understand he is engaged . I take this oppor- tunity of specially thanking him , * and also Colonel Herbert Stewart , C.B. , A.D.C. to the Queen , Major R. C. Lawrence , who commanded the detachment of cavalry that ...
... campaign , in which I understand he is engaged . I take this oppor- tunity of specially thanking him , * and also Colonel Herbert Stewart , C.B. , A.D.C. to the Queen , Major R. C. Lawrence , who commanded the detachment of cavalry that ...
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... campaign against that dreaded chief astonished alike Native and European in South Africa , and raised British prestige to a height it had never before attained . From South Africa , and the peaceful precincts of the Horse Guards , where ...
... campaign against that dreaded chief astonished alike Native and European in South Africa , and raised British prestige to a height it had never before attained . From South Africa , and the peaceful precincts of the Horse Guards , where ...
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... campaign should be ' short , sharp , and decisive . ' Delay meant not only vast expenditure , but in- creased probabilities of political complications with Turkey , France , and Russia , no less than a great uprising of the Arab race ...
... campaign should be ' short , sharp , and decisive . ' Delay meant not only vast expenditure , but in- creased probabilities of political complications with Turkey , France , and Russia , no less than a great uprising of the Arab race ...
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... campaign , some calculation may be made of the losses we must have encountered had it been prolonged . Thus while the croakers , who always make their voices heard on the outbreak of a war , had many grounds for their pessimistic ...
... campaign , some calculation may be made of the losses we must have encountered had it been prolonged . Thus while the croakers , who always make their voices heard on the outbreak of a war , had many grounds for their pessimistic ...
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Page 152 - 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 258 - 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 237 - 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 428 - Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires,— 'tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you; for ye are A beauty and a mystery, and create In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.
Page 153 - 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 425 - All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most ; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep...
Page 237 - 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 172 - ... but, as no liberties are allowed to be taken with personal property in Lee's army, he is particular in setting a good example himself. His staff are crowded together, two or three in a tent; none are allowed to carry more baggage than a small box each, and his own kit is but very little larger.
Page 172 - 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 83 - On the next day, communications were opened to the left rear of the barracks to the canal, after overcoming considerable difficulty. Captain Peel kept up a steady cannonade on the building called the mess-house. This building, of considerable size, was defended by a ditch about twelve feet broad and scarped with masonry, and beyond that a loopholed mud wall. I determined to use the guns as much as possible in taking it.