With Kitchener to KhartumWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1898 - 326 páginas |
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... Dongola campaign - one of three subalterns specially chosen from the Railway Department of the Royal Engineers . The Sudan killed the other two out of hand , but Bimbashi A CROWNING WONDER . 27 Girouard goes on ' building 26 THE S.M.R..
... Dongola campaign - one of three subalterns specially chosen from the Railway Department of the Royal Engineers . The Sudan killed the other two out of hand , but Bimbashi A CROWNING WONDER . 27 Girouard goes on ' building 26 THE S.M.R..
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... our eye till we had them alongside the mountainous confusion of three correspondents ' light baggage . Arrived at the scene of action , they sat down with one consent and looked at it . The only way to hurry an Arab is to kill 39.
... our eye till we had them alongside the mountainous confusion of three correspondents ' light baggage . Arrived at the scene of action , they sat down with one consent and looked at it . The only way to hurry an Arab is to kill 39.
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George Warrington Steevens. The only way to hurry an Arab is to kill him , after which he is useless as a donkey - driver ; so we sat down too , and had some tea , and looked at them . Presently they made it known that they had no rope ...
George Warrington Steevens. The only way to hurry an Arab is to kill him , after which he is useless as a donkey - driver ; so we sat down too , and had some tea , and looked at them . Presently they made it known that they had no rope ...
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... in forty - two hours . But I am afraid it must have been the death of the horse , and I am sorry . It seems a cruelty to kill him just as he was beginning to be immortal . VI . THE SIRDAR . MAJOR - GENERAL SIR HORATIO 44 I MARCH TO BERBER .
... in forty - two hours . But I am afraid it must have been the death of the horse , and I am sorry . It seems a cruelty to kill him just as he was beginning to be immortal . VI . THE SIRDAR . MAJOR - GENERAL SIR HORATIO 44 I MARCH TO BERBER .
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... 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 his " " brigade to be found . In person ,
... 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 his " " brigade to be found . In person ,
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