A Subaltern's Letters to His WifeLongmans, Green, 1901 - 228 páginas |
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... waggons , goaded oxen shambled on desperately in the rear . The victory was ours ; but , as usual , we had no horseflesh left for the pursuit . One of my troop was sent back to the Brigadier with the news , and he told us afterwards ...
... waggons , goaded oxen shambled on desperately in the rear . The victory was ours ; but , as usual , we had no horseflesh left for the pursuit . One of my troop was sent back to the Brigadier with the news , and he told us afterwards ...
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... waggons ; oxen drew guns and waggons . The sun burned them day by day ; the cold tortured them by night ; they were insufficiently fed , and their labours were never - ending . Like the men , they went into the fore - front of the ...
... waggons ; oxen drew guns and waggons . The sun burned them day by day ; the cold tortured them by night ; they were insufficiently fed , and their labours were never - ending . Like the men , they went into the fore - front of the ...
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... waggons , then marked by wrecks of woodwork and heaps of calcined iron , there lay hundreds of horses in every stage of putrefaction . One group - worthy of sculptured immortality — will ever live in my memory . Three horses lay piled ...
... waggons , then marked by wrecks of woodwork and heaps of calcined iron , there lay hundreds of horses in every stage of putrefaction . One group - worthy of sculptured immortality — will ever live in my memory . Three horses lay piled ...
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... waggons in front , paying no attention to the country into which he was advancing . Finally , he bivouacked between a river and a spruit , and at dawn advanced ( still without scouting ) into the very midst of the Boers concealed among ...
... waggons in front , paying no attention to the country into which he was advancing . Finally , he bivouacked between a river and a spruit , and at dawn advanced ( still without scouting ) into the very midst of the Boers concealed among ...
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... waggons have been left far in the rear . Horses should in future be used for such draught purposes , and more and lighter vehicles substituted for the cumbrous machines now generally in vogue . The colonials had several splendid covered ...
... waggons have been left far in the rear . Horses should in future be used for such draught purposes , and more and lighter vehicles substituted for the cumbrous machines now generally in vogue . The colonials had several splendid covered ...
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