The River Column: A Narrative of the Advance of the River Column of the Nile Expeditionary Force, and Its Return Down the RapidsW. Blackwood, 1885 - 291 páginas |
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... heliographic signalling , ow- ing to the absence of marked high hills , and the presence of a succession of low ridges . Before the 24th of January a number of Canadian voyageurs joined the column , and were distributed among 52 HAMDAB .
... heliographic signalling , ow- ing to the absence of marked high hills , and the presence of a succession of low ridges . Before the 24th of January a number of Canadian voyageurs joined the column , and were distributed among 52 HAMDAB .
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... voyageurs joined the column , and were distributed among the battalions and corps in boats ; and a boat - repairing party , under Lieutenant Kenney , R.E. , arrived with repairing material . Its two boats ' crews were from that moment ...
... voyageurs joined the column , and were distributed among the battalions and corps in boats ; and a boat - repairing party , under Lieutenant Kenney , R.E. , arrived with repairing material . Its two boats ' crews were from that moment ...
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... following the leading brigade , mov- ing in half battalions . General Earle trusted that before he moved , his naval boat , with a Gardner gun , his boat officers - and voyageurs , and boat - repairing party might have 56 HAMDAB .
... following the leading brigade , mov- ing in half battalions . General Earle trusted that before he moved , his naval boat , with a Gardner gun , his boat officers - and voyageurs , and boat - repairing party might have 56 HAMDAB .
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... voyageurs , and boat - repairing party might have reached his camp . He urged , also , that his commissariat staff should be promptly and considerably increased . In reply General Earle was informed , on 15th Jan. the 15th , that most ...
... voyageurs , and boat - repairing party might have reached his camp . He urged , also , that his commissariat staff should be promptly and considerably increased . In reply General Earle was informed , on 15th Jan. the 15th , that most ...
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... voyageurs arrived on the 21st . charged with the direction of the advance by river , and had as his assistants Captain Orde , Rifle Brigade , Captain Lord Avon- more , Hampshire Regiment , and Lieuten- ant Peel , 2d Life Guards , all by ...
... voyageurs arrived on the 21st . charged with the direction of the advance by river , and had as his assistants Captain Orde , Rifle Brigade , Captain Lord Avon- more , Hampshire Regiment , and Lieuten- ant Peel , 2d Life Guards , all by ...
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The River Column: A Narrative of the Advance of the River Column of the Nile ... Henry Brackenbury Visualização integral - 1885 |
The River Column: A Narrative of the Advance of the River Column of the Nile ... Henry Brackenbury Visualização integral - 1885 |
The River Column: A Narrative of the Advance of the River Column of the Nile ... Henry Brackenbury Visualização de excertos - 1993 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Abu Bekr Abu Hamed advance Alleyne arrived artillery baggage battalion Belal Berber Birti bivouac Black Watch camel corps Captain Castle Camp cataract cavalry channel cloth Colonel Butler Colonel Colvile command companies convoy Cornwalls Crown 8vo desert Dulka island Earle Edinburgh Egyptian Camel Corps enemy enemy's English Engravings Fcap fire force Gamra Gordon Highlanders guns half halted Hamdab headquarters Hebbeh Herbert Stewart high Nile island Hussars Illustrations infantry Kab el Abd Khartoum Kirbekan koppies Korosko Korti left bank Lekalik Lord Wolseley Mahdi's marched Merawi Metemmeh miles Monassir country morning mounted troops move Mudir's troops native Nile island Ooli opposite orders position Post 8vo Professor rear reconnoitred Regiment reported ridge right bank River Column Robatab rocks rocky sakyehs Salamat Scotland Second Edition sent sheikhs Sherri island Shukook pass Staffords steamer Stewart Suleiman Wad Gamr supplies telegram University of Edinburgh Vakeel vols voyageurs Warag zareeba
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