With Kitchener to KhartumWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1898 - 326 páginas |
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Página vii
... Cavalry and artillery - British officers and native troops - The merits of " Sergeant Whatsisname❞ — A daily heroism - Bey and Bimbashi - Rapid promotion - One of the highest achievements of our race • 11 III . THE S.M.R. The deadliest ...
... Cavalry and artillery - British officers and native troops - The merits of " Sergeant Whatsisname❞ — A daily heroism - Bey and Bimbashi - Rapid promotion - One of the highest achievements of our race • 11 III . THE S.M.R. The deadliest ...
Página ix
... cavalry skirmish - A strong reconnaissance - A false alarm - The real enemy - The want of transport begins to be felt - What officers had to put up with - Dervish deserters- A bold stroke • 105 XIV . THE RAID ON SHENDI . The virtues of.
... cavalry skirmish - A strong reconnaissance - A false alarm - The real enemy - The want of transport begins to be felt - What officers had to put up with - Dervish deserters- A bold stroke • 105 XIV . THE RAID ON SHENDI . The virtues of.
Página x
... cavalry - Dispiriting work -General Hunter's reconnaissance - Mahmud marked down -Rumours and surmises - Reasons for storming the zariba 124 XVI . CAMEL - CORPS AND CAVALRY . Camel - corps luck - Distant firing - The hall - mark of the ...
... cavalry - Dispiriting work -General Hunter's reconnaissance - Mahmud marked down -Rumours and surmises - Reasons for storming the zariba 124 XVI . CAMEL - CORPS AND CAVALRY . Camel - corps luck - Distant firing - The hall - mark of the ...
Página xi
... Cavalry and artillery - The new gunboats- Slatin Pasha - What the Khalifa's refusal to fight would mean . XXIII . IN SUMMER QUARTERS . The one important question - Sport on the Atbara — A pessim- istic senior captain - The Atbara Derby ...
... Cavalry and artillery - The new gunboats- Slatin Pasha - What the Khalifa's refusal to fight would mean . XXIII . IN SUMMER QUARTERS . The one important question - Sport on the Atbara — A pessim- istic senior captain - The Atbara Derby ...
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... cavalry in the field- A piquant contrast - A masterpiece of under - statement - A military circus - Camping on an old cotton - field - The vagaries of the Nile - A pleasant camp - The traces of Mahdism 218 CONTENTS . xiii XXIX ...
... cavalry in the field- A piquant contrast - A masterpiece of under - statement - A military circus - Camping on an old cotton - field - The vagaries of the Nile - A pleasant camp - The traces of Mahdism 218 CONTENTS . xiii XXIX ...
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21st Lancers Abu Hamed angareb Arab Atbara attack Baggara bank battalions battery battle battle of Omdurman Berber Bimbashi Blackwood and Sons boats British Brigade bullets Cairo camel-corps camels Camerons camp campaign Captain cavalry Cheap Edition cloth Colonel Crown 8vo dead Demy 8vo Dervishes desert Dongola donkeys Edinburgh Egypt Egyptian army enemy English Fcap fight fire force four front Gebel gunboats guns half Halfa horses Hunter infantry Jaalin Kerreri Khalifa Khartum killed Lancers LL.D looked Mahmud Maps Maxims Merawi Metemmeh miles morning native never night Nile numerous Illustrations officers OLIPHANT Omdurman Osman Osman Digna Portrait Post 8vo Professor railway regiment Revised Rifles river round sand Scotland Seaforths Second Edition Shendi Sirdar soldiers squadrons steamers Suakim Sudan Sudanese Third Edition tion trenches troops University of Edinburgh vols wall William Blackwood wounded zariba
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