With Kitchener to KhartumWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1898 - 326 páginas |
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... wounded - How the injured took their fate- Church - parade - The return to Berber - The captive Mahmud -The finest sight of the whole triumph 161 XX . EGYPT OUT OF SEASON . Port Said in summer - Cairo , a desolation - The Arab overcome ...
... wounded - How the injured took their fate- Church - parade - The return to Berber - The captive Mahmud -The finest sight of the whole triumph 161 XX . EGYPT OUT OF SEASON . Port Said in summer - Cairo , a desolation - The Arab overcome ...
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... wounded in the face by a bullet , without any decisive success . The withdrawal was in no way discreditable , for his force was a jumble of irregulars and levies without dis- cipline . But it is not perhaps fanciful to believe that the ...
... wounded in the face by a bullet , without any decisive success . The withdrawal was in no way discreditable , for his force was a jumble of irregulars and levies without dis- cipline . But it is not perhaps fanciful to believe that the ...
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... wounded a spear - thrust in the arm while he was charging the thickest of the Dervishes at the head of the 13th . Thereafter he was Governor of the frontier at Halfa , Governor of the frontier at Don- gola , Governor of the frontier at ...
... wounded a spear - thrust in the arm while he was charging the thickest of the Dervishes at the head of the 13th . Thereafter he was Governor of the frontier at Halfa , Governor of the frontier at Don- gola , Governor of the frontier at ...
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... wounded , he is always the same- always the same impossible hero of a book of chivalry . He is renowned as a brave man even among British officers : you know what that means . But he is much more than a tilting knight- errant ; he is ...
... wounded , he is always the same- always the same impossible hero of a book of chivalry . He is renowned as a brave man even among British officers : you know what that means . But he is much more than a tilting knight- errant ; he is ...
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... wounded man , still resolutely smiling ; " I expect I'm in for hospital anyhow . " And away to hospital they bore him , for the boat would be up river again by dawn the next day . Meantime the detachment of soldiers were stepping ashore ...
... wounded man , still resolutely smiling ; " I expect I'm in for hospital anyhow . " And away to hospital they bore him , for the boat would be up river again by dawn the next day . Meantime the detachment of soldiers were stepping ashore ...
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