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The Struggle in Natal Maurice Harold Grant. D. B. FRIEND & CO . , Booksellers & Stationers , 77 , Western Road , BRIGHTON . Africa ( South ) -History , 1897 - x 1902 : War : Personalia Gray . ENY THE STRUGGLE IN NATAL 1 WORDS BY.
The Struggle in Natal Maurice Harold Grant. D. B. FRIEND & CO . , Booksellers & Stationers , 77 , Western Road , BRIGHTON . Africa ( South ) -History , 1897 - x 1902 : War : Personalia Gray . ENY THE STRUGGLE IN NATAL 1 WORDS BY.
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... History , nor to be considered as such , but merely an attempt to fill up something of what History , perhaps necessarily , omits , the human side of the great document of war , that side which rapidly becomes illegible when the men who ...
... History , nor to be considered as such , but merely an attempt to fill up something of what History , perhaps necessarily , omits , the human side of the great document of war , that side which rapidly becomes illegible when the men who ...
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... history . Then the pom - pom , heard for the first time , it was a little hard on that keen- eyed watch - dog of a gun that its awesome barking should be imitated to the very life by its intended victims themselves . But , alas ...
... history . Then the pom - pom , heard for the first time , it was a little hard on that keen- eyed watch - dog of a gun that its awesome barking should be imitated to the very life by its intended victims themselves . But , alas ...
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... history to be read with as much pride for the " lads in red " as ever glowed in an Englishman's heart at any tale of victory . There is a triumph of defeat as well as of glory ; few soldiers in the world but our own have ever gained it ...
... history to be read with as much pride for the " lads in red " as ever glowed in an Englishman's heart at any tale of victory . There is a triumph of defeat as well as of glory ; few soldiers in the world but our own have ever gained it ...
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... history , if some statistician were to show him how many of the deeds of glory which illumine its pages have been done as atonement for mistakes , some on the part of careless officers , more of careless men . It would astonish the same ...
... history , if some statistician were to show him how many of the deeds of glory which illumine its pages have been done as atonement for mistakes , some on the part of careless officers , more of careless men . It would astonish the same ...
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