History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, Volumen2Longmans, Green, 1889 |
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... Horse Guards that an officer of the scientific branch of the service was for that very reason incom- petent to fill such a post . It was left for Sir Robert Napier to prove the fallacy of the notion . The difficulties attending the ...
... Horse Guards that an officer of the scientific branch of the service was for that very reason incom- petent to fill such a post . It was left for Sir Robert Napier to prove the fallacy of the notion . The difficulties attending the ...
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... horses were wrested from the enemy in the face of a powerful resistance . " In the month of May , 1852 , a serious disaster befel a party of Sappers under Captain Moody , who were escorting an ammunition train from Graham's Town to the ...
... horses were wrested from the enemy in the face of a powerful resistance . " In the month of May , 1852 , a serious disaster befel a party of Sappers under Captain Moody , who were escorting an ammunition train from Graham's Town to the ...
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... horses was heard rapidly approach- ing , and the challenge of the sentinel , from whose platform we looked on a mass ... horse across the swollen stream , and Tylden and Stanton had taken the necessary points and bearings for their ...
... horses was heard rapidly approach- ing , and the challenge of the sentinel , from whose platform we looked on a mass ... horse across the swollen stream , and Tylden and Stanton had taken the necessary points and bearings for their ...
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... horses and commissariat stores begun . It was not , however , in their power to effect much until the projected junction with the Khyber force under General Bright had been carried out . Transport difficulties had impeded the movements ...
... horses and commissariat stores begun . It was not , however , in their power to effect much until the projected junction with the Khyber force under General Bright had been carried out . Transport difficulties had impeded the movements ...
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... horse was wounded under him . It is only with the circumstances attending the fate of Lieutenant Henn at this fatal field that it is proposed to deal . A week before that date Henn had written a letter dated at Kushk- i - Nakhud , July ...
... horse was wounded under him . It is only with the circumstances attending the fate of Lieutenant Henn at this fatal field that it is proposed to deal . A week before that date Henn had written a letter dated at Kushk- i - Nakhud , July ...
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