Recollections of Forty Years' ServiceW. Blackwood and sons, 1903 - 386 sider |
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... position ) were words of command in the platoon ( firing ) exercise . The term " firelock " was in regular use . " Bout " was evidently a survival of the ancient " cast about your firelock " ( or matchlock ) when bringing it up to the ...
... position ) were words of command in the platoon ( firing ) exercise . The term " firelock " was in regular use . " Bout " was evidently a survival of the ancient " cast about your firelock " ( or matchlock ) when bringing it up to the ...
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... position , the Baidar Valley being just in front . But by the time I got to Kamara , where the 1st brigade of the Highland Division was , the rain was coming down straight , and the road being uncommonly heavy , I was glad to hold on to ...
... position , the Baidar Valley being just in front . But by the time I got to Kamara , where the 1st brigade of the Highland Division was , the rain was coming down straight , and the road being uncommonly heavy , I was glad to hold on to ...
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... position would have entailed immense loss , as the Russians found when they attacked the French and Sardinians at Traktir in the preceding August . It struck me on visiting the Russians opposite the Inkerman Cliffs , that by massing our ...
... position would have entailed immense loss , as the Russians found when they attacked the French and Sardinians at Traktir in the preceding August . It struck me on visiting the Russians opposite the Inkerman Cliffs , that by massing our ...
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... positions , outpost work , and suchlike , could not have been found ; but special instruction in such subjects did ... position and line before commencing to put them up , were much amused at our men's extraordinary energy and apparent ...
... positions , outpost work , and suchlike , could not have been found ; but special instruction in such subjects did ... position and line before commencing to put them up , were much amused at our men's extraordinary energy and apparent ...
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... position whilst our men mounted . The governing class in China is , from our point of view , corruption itself ; and as for ignorance , conceit , and general unfitness for a responsible position , few human beings can come up to the ...
... position whilst our men mounted . The governing class in China is , from our point of view , corruption itself ; and as for ignorance , conceit , and general unfitness for a responsible position , few human beings can come up to the ...
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