The Twentieth Century, Band 57Nineteenth Century and After, 1905 |
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... of the officer in perfecting the whole . ' 3 • Circular Memorandum by the Adjutant - General , dated the 20th of November , 1857 . Between 1857 and 1880 this number was increased to 100 B 2 1905 THE ARMY - AS IT WAS AND AS IT IS 3.
... of the officer in perfecting the whole . ' 3 • Circular Memorandum by the Adjutant - General , dated the 20th of November , 1857 . Between 1857 and 1880 this number was increased to 100 B 2 1905 THE ARMY - AS IT WAS AND AS IT IS 3.
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Between 1857 and 1880 this number was increased to 100 rounds per man . In 1882 , 50 more rounds were added . In 1885-1902 , 200 rounds were allowed , increased in 1903 to 300 rounds per man . As regards precision , the musket was ...
Between 1857 and 1880 this number was increased to 100 rounds per man . In 1882 , 50 more rounds were added . In 1885-1902 , 200 rounds were allowed , increased in 1903 to 300 rounds per man . As regards precision , the musket was ...
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... increased range of breech - loaders necessitated a considerable change in tactics ; these advantages dis- appeared , and it is difficult to over - estimate how greatly regimental officers are now handicapped by not having complete ...
... increased range of breech - loaders necessitated a considerable change in tactics ; these advantages dis- appeared , and it is difficult to over - estimate how greatly regimental officers are now handicapped by not having complete ...
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... increased . The Armstrong gun was accordingly adopted , but it did not remain long in favour . The naval and military authorities of the day considered simplicity all - important , and were opposed to any , even the most simple ...
... increased . The Armstrong gun was accordingly adopted , but it did not remain long in favour . The naval and military authorities of the day considered simplicity all - important , and were opposed to any , even the most simple ...
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... increased . Instead of an annual class consisting of eight officers , sixteen are now admitted . The course lasts for one year ; at the end of that time half the number are selected to compete for a second year , and these eight on ...
... increased . Instead of an annual class consisting of eight officers , sixteen are now admitted . The course lasts for one year ; at the end of that time half the number are selected to compete for a second year , and these eight on ...
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Seite 400 - And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.
Seite 365 - England — of that great compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs, which is called public opinion...
Seite 503 - I say that it is a narrow policy to suppose that this country or that is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual enemy of England. We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.
Seite 53 - ... a convenient stock of flax hemp wool thread iron and other necessary ware and stuff to set the poor on work: and also competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame impotent old blind and such other among them being poor and not able to work...
Seite 53 - ... for setting to work all such persons, married or unmarried, having no means to maintain them , and use no ordinary and daily trade of life to get their living by...
Seite 53 - ... or the greater part of them, shall take order from time to time, by and with the consent of two or more such Justices of Peace as is aforesaid...
Seite 75 - And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also **. 3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
Seite 365 - It is but too true, that the love, and even the very idea, of genuine liberty is extremely rare. It is but too true that there are many whose whole scheme of freedom is made up of pride, perverseness, and insolence. They feel themselves in a state of thraldom, they imagine that their souls are cooped and cabined in, unless they have some man or some body of men dependent on their mercy.
Seite 366 - Protestant cobbler, debased by his poverty, but exalted by his share of the ruling church, feels a pride in knowing it is by his generosity alone that the peer whose footman's instep he measures is able to keep his chaplain from a jail.
Seite 500 - In case neither of the high contracting parties should have notified twelve months before the expiration of the said ten years the intention of terminating it, it shall remain binding until the expiration of one year from the day on which either of the high contracting parties...