With Kitchener to KhartumWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1898 - 326 páginas |
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... regiments - Amateur and professional transport— The perfection of method . 192 XXV . THE PATHOLOGY OF THIRST . The ... regiment - First impressions of cavalry in the field- A piquant contrast - A masterpiece of under - statement - A ...
... regiments - Amateur and professional transport— The perfection of method . 192 XXV . THE PATHOLOGY OF THIRST . The ... regiment - First impressions of cavalry in the field- A piquant contrast - A masterpiece of under - statement - A ...
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... Regiment . There is no better regimental officer than the Englishman ; there is no better natural fighter than the Sudanese : there would hardly be a likelier force in the world . SERGEANT WHATSISNAME . 17 The native officers are ...
... Regiment . There is no better regimental officer than the Englishman ; there is no better natural fighter than the Sudanese : there would hardly be a likelier force in the world . SERGEANT WHATSISNAME . 17 The native officers are ...
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... regimental officer takes lower rank than major ( Bimbashi ) ; none has any superior native officer in his own corps ... regiment in action . With men either rash or timid such sudden promotion might be dangerous ; but the officers of ...
... regimental officer takes lower rank than major ( Bimbashi ) ; none has any superior native officer in his own corps ... regiment in action . With men either rash or timid such sudden promotion might be dangerous ; but the officers of ...
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... regiments were started up the river , rail - head was some twenty miles south of Abu Hamed . The object , of course , was to push it on south of the series of rapids ending at Geneineteh , some twenty - odd miles short of Berber , which.
... regiments were started up the river , rail - head was some twenty miles south of Abu Hamed . The object , of course , was to push it on south of the series of rapids ending at Geneineteh , some twenty - odd miles short of Berber , which.
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... regiment of cavalry . In Wolseley's campaign he was Intelligence Officer . Dur- ing the summer of 1884 he was at Korosko , negoti- ating with the Ababdeh sheiks in view of an advance across the desert to Abu Hamed ; and note how ...
... regiment of cavalry . In Wolseley's campaign he was Intelligence Officer . Dur- ing the summer of 1884 he was at Korosko , negoti- ating with the Ababdeh sheiks in view of an advance across the desert to Abu Hamed ; and note how ...
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