What I Saw in Kaffir-landW. Blackwood and sons, 1880 - 211 páginas |
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... British soldier . His Grace frequently observed , " Englishmen take aim , Frenchmen fire anyhow ; " and no man could stand fairly up to harder kicking than old Brown Bess already gave . General Browne , to whom the Duke handed me over ...
... British soldier . His Grace frequently observed , " Englishmen take aim , Frenchmen fire anyhow ; " and no man could stand fairly up to harder kicking than old Brown Bess already gave . General Browne , to whom the Duke handed me over ...
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... British Government towards the Kaffir and the Dutch settler ; and my experience afterwards only confirmed the truth of his observations . I now began to practise the men with their firelocks . As this was almost the only drilling they ...
... British Government towards the Kaffir and the Dutch settler ; and my experience afterwards only confirmed the truth of his observations . I now began to practise the men with their firelocks . As this was almost the only drilling they ...
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... British army , when I might have easily purchased , for a tenth of the money , a commission at home . My ways were foreign . I had been brought up mostly abroad — in France and Germany . My military notions were based on their schools ...
... British army , when I might have easily purchased , for a tenth of the money , a commission at home . My ways were foreign . I had been brought up mostly abroad — in France and Germany . My military notions were based on their schools ...
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... British officer , and , excepting the Artillery and Engineers , thought them a very unscientific lot . No one could doubt their fighting capacity ; but their capa- bilities for undertaking a campaign against European armies was very ...
... British officer , and , excepting the Artillery and Engineers , thought them a very unscientific lot . No one could doubt their fighting capacity ; but their capa- bilities for undertaking a campaign against European armies was very ...
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... British military stores . The commissariat was in the hands of the tradesmen of the town : a Mr Js ( banker and merchant ) seemed to have the whole charge of the provisioning of the army . He was ex- ceedingly kind and courteous , a ...
... British military stores . The commissariat was in the hands of the tradesmen of the town : a Mr Js ( banker and merchant ) seemed to have the whole charge of the provisioning of the army . He was ex- ceedingly kind and courteous , a ...
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