Barracks, Bivouacs, and BattlesMacmillan and Company, 1891 - 328 Seiten Mick Sullivan was a private soldier in G troop, 30th Light Dragoons, of some six years' service. Since the day old Sergeant Denny Lee 'listed him in Charles Street, just outside the Cheshire Cheese, close by where the Council door of the India Office now is, Mick had never been anything else than a private soldier, and never hoped or needed hope to be anything else if he served out his full twenty-four years, for he could neither read nor write, and his regimental defaulter sheet was much fuller of "marks" than the most lavish barrack-room pudding is of raisins. Nevertheless the Queen had a very good bargain in honest Mick, although that was scarcely the opinion of the adjutant, who was a "jumped-up" youngster, and had not been in the Crimea with the regiment. |
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30th Light adjutant Alexinatz army Ballarat barracks battalion battle Beresford brigade British bullet camp captain Captain Falconer carried cavalry Cawnpore charge chief Chillianwallah chum Colonel Guardlex command comrades corporal Corporal of Horse Crayture Crealock dead death Deligrad despatch dismounted Dragoons drill duty Emperor entrenched eyes face fell fellow fighting fire fire-discipline flank front gallant gallop German hand head heart Highland horse Isandlwana Jellypod Kidson knew L'Estrange laager Landmann's Drift Lord Chelmsford Lord Wolseley Malony Mick Sullivan Mick's military Morava morning Muleteer mutiny never night non-commissioned officers officer Oronzha parish Peter Lalor picket Plevna poor position quarters ranks rear Regals regiment regimental sergeant-major replied ride Robbie rode round Russian saddle Scarlet Hussars sent sergeant sergeant-major Servian Shere Ali slope soldier squadron stood strong sword told troop troopers Turkish Turks Ulundi valley Villiers word wounded young Zulus
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Seite 205 - ... and whose taint is still among the nearest relatives of the Sovereign. He had the purest aspirations to do his loyal duty toward the huge empire over which he ruled, and never did he spare himself in toilsome work. He took few pleasures ; the melancholy of his position made sombre his countenance, and darkened for him all the brightness of life. For he had the bitterest consciousness of the abuses that were alienating the subjects who had been wont in their hearts, as on their lips, to couple...
Seite 240 - Bredow sounds the recall. Breathless from the long ride, thinned by the enemy's bullets, without reserves, and hemmed in by hostile cavalry, they have to fight their way back. After some hot melees with...
Seite 306 - ... things connected with the late outbreak which I deeply regret. The first is, that we should have been forced to take up arms at all; and the second is, that when we were compelled to take the field in our own defence, we were unable (through the want of arms, ammunition, and a little organisation) to inflict on the real authors of the outbreak the punishment they so richly deserved.
Seite 302 - ... authorities to maintain the integrity of the law, and, within four days, 450 military and police were on the ground, commanded by an officer in whom I had confidence, and who was instructed to enforce order and quiet, support the civil authority in the arrest of the ringleaders, and to use force, whenever legally called upon to do so, without regard to the consequences which might ensue.
Seite 201 - ... him with the vivid apprehension that he was not to break the spell which was said to condemn every Romanoff to the grave before the age of sixty. He was in the field during the six days' struggle around Plevna, in the September of the war. The sappers had constructed for him, on a little eminence, a lookout place, from which was visible a great sweep of the scene of action. Behind it was a marquee, in which was a long table continually spread with food and wine, where the suite supported nature...
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Seite 2 - G troop, who was a non-purchase man, and had been soldiering for well on to twenty years, understood and appreciated Mick better. Captain Coleman knew that he had come limping up out of that crazy gallop along " the valley of death " with a sword red from hilt to point, a lance-thrust through the calf of his leg, and a wounded comrade on his back. He had heard Mick's gay laugh and cheery jest during that dreary time in the hollow inland from Varna, when cholera was decimating the troop, and the hearts...
Seite 240 - After some hot m$Ues with the enemy's horsemen, they once more cut their way through the previously overridden lines of artillery and cavalry, and harassed by a thick rain of bullets, and with the foe in rear, the remnant hastens back to Flavigny. . . The bold attack had cost the regiments half their strength.
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