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...s Barnstone Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature Indiana University aul Alexander Bartlett’s journal of Sappho is a m... ...ernoon warm, a lazy hunting dog at his feet. “I don’t understand how your army crossed the Alps in six or seven days.” “Five days,” he corrected me.... ...d there. I have seen some of it when I was collecting fossils. But for an army to get through, it seems impossible. You had cannons, horses, mules..... ...ree hundred guests, I hear: Germans, Dutch, Austrian, Swiss, two or three British, a Greek potentate; the majority will be Parisians and the château ... ... smoked on the long watches. It settles the blood and calms the mind. The Indians...” “We know about the Indians,” Jonson said. “Just remember, we’r... ...om Italy, I be- lieve; also a red handkerchief and books. Mary gave him a British belt buckle with lion and unicorn, a set of brushes and tubes of p... ... colored pins, on the fields of battle, designate more than battle lines, regiments, infantry, artillery, cavalry, fortifications...those pins are me... ...ns, on the fields of battle, designate more than battle lines, regiments, infantry, artillery, cavalry, fortifications...those pins are men, my men, ... ...battalions of dragoons, eight companies of artillery, twelve companies of infantry, the whole constabulary force of the city police, the entire disp...

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............................................................. 46 The American Army ................................................... 55 America’s Defen... ...hile I was getting ashore, demanding of all things in the world news about Indian journalism. It is an awful thing to enter a new land with a new lie ... ...rests us,” he said. “Have you got reporters anything like our reporters on Indian newspapers?” “We have not,” I said, and suppressed the “thank God” r... ...x-officer of the South over his evening drink to a colonel of the Northern army, my introducer, who had served as a trooper in the Northern Horse, thr... ...e the American army, as at present constituted, is made up of:—Twenty-five regiments infantry, ten companies each. Ten regiments cavalry, twelve compa... ...ican army, as at present constituted, is made up of:—Twenty-five regiments infantry, ten companies each. Ten regiments cavalry, twelve companies each.... ...ry, ten companies each. Ten regiments cavalry, twelve companies each. Five regiments artillery, twelve companies each. Now there is a notion in the ai... ...on in the air to reorganize the service on these lines:—Eighteen regiments infantry at four battal- 56 American Notes ions, four companies each; thir... ...y they inspire (two trunks and a walking-stick and a bit of pine forest in British Columbia are not satisfactory, any way you look at them), I turned ...

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...VI: CAIRO AND CAMP WOOD......................................................................................................... 114 CHAPTER VII: THE ARMY OF THE NORTH..................................................................................................... 135 CHAPTER VIII: BACK TO BOSTON.............................................................................

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........................................................ 114 CHAPTER VII: THE ARMY OF THE NORTH ............................................................ ...y hair, but often covered with feathers, and is intended to typify the red Indian. The red Indian is generally supposed to be receiving comfort; but i... ... and then I knew that the Post-office had become a provision depot for the army. The official arrangements here for the public were so bad as to be ab... ... about through the Patent-office I also found a hospital for sol- diers. A British officer was with me who pronounced it to be, in its kind, very good... ...interrupted whether he would consent to be so treated. “The gentleman from Indiana has the floor.” “The gentleman from Ohio wishes to ask the gentlema... ... impede the celerity of the work to be done, and that a closer copy of the British model might not on the whole increase the efficiency of the America... ...me that these were men going on furlough, or on special occasions; for the regiments were of course not received by ordinary passenger trains. 72 Nor... ...r east or west of them—at any rate this may be said of them as regards the infantry. But perhaps the greatest charm of the place to me was the beauty ... ...Their cavalry regiments are, in general, more numer- ous than those of the infantry, and on this occasion we saw, I believe, about 1200 men pass by us...

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.... LINCOLN. 6 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six SPEECH TO THE 12TH INDIANA REGIMENT, MA Y [15?] 1862 SOLDIERS, OF THE TWELFTH INDIANA REGIMENT... ...ree government and free institutions. For the part which you and the brave army of which you are a part have, under Providence, performed in this grea... ...re prudent, it would re- quire more time to effect a junction between your army and that of the Rappahannock by the way of the Potomac and Y ork river... ...f his force remains for the present at Fredericksburg. We are sending such regiments and dribs from here and Baltimore as we can spare to Harper’s Fer... ...r that you can safely do with- out abandoning your own position. Let it be infantry entirely, as he said yesterday that he had cavalry enough. EDWIN M... ...stood as it really is. I think the new force should be all, or nearly all, infantry, principally be- cause such can be raised most cheaply and quickly... ... W AR DEPARTMENT, W ASHINGTON, D.C. June 28, 1862. GOVERNOR O. P . MORTON, Indianapolis, Ind: Y our despatch of to-day is just received. I have no rec... ...ton himself endured greater physical hard- ships than if he had remained a British subject, yet he was a happy man because he had engaged in benefitin... ...y. The great interior region bounded east by the Alleghenies, north by the British domin- ions, west by the Rocky Mountains, and south by the line alo...

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...CUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, D. C., October 30, 1863. MAJOR-GENERAL MEADE, Army of Potomac: Much obliged for the information about deserters contained... ... that position. If not, let him retake his commis- sion and return to the army for the benefit of the country. This will heal a dangerous schism for ... ...d their authority to prevent the departure of new hostile expeditions from British ports. The Emperor of France has, by a like proceeding, promptly v... ...of the several organized Territories is gener- ally satisfactory, although Indian disturbances in New Mexico have not been entirely suppressed. The m... ...rsements there were for the civil service $23,253,922.08, for pensions and Indians $4,216,520.79, for interest on public debt $24,729,846.51, for the ... ... or lately, at Johnson’s Island, for Capt. T. Ten Eyck, Eigh- teenth U. S. Infantry, and now at Richmond. I would like to have it done. Can it be? A... ...s of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and Wis- consin offer to the President infantry troops for the approach- ing campaign as follows: Ohio, thirty tho... ...ged. 3. The troops to be mustered into the service of the United States by regiments, when the regiments are filled up, accord- ing to regulations, to... ...o merchandise warehoused under bond the privilege of being exported to the British North American prov- inces adjoining the United States, in the mann...

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..., my sovereign appreciates them. If asked who was the brav- est man of the Indian army, there is not an officer belonging to it who would not cry at o... ...vereign appreciates them. If asked who was the brav- est man of the Indian army, there is not an officer belonging to it who would not cry at once, Ga... ...iving his letters from Benares—for his exclama- tion upon the death of the Indian chief—for his desire to marry his daughter: the woman I was wooing w... ...d a camp at Kanouge on the Jumna, where he exercised that brilliant little army which was speedily to perform such wonders in the Dooab. It will be as... ...ng rather as it appeared that they had any strength to fight a battle, the British Government, ever anxious to see its en- emies by the ears, by no me... ...rvice, and inflaming the minds of the various na- tive princes against the British East India Company. A number of these entered into Scindiah’s ranks... ...itle of the Grand Army of the Ganges and the Jumna; it consisted of eleven regiments of cavalry and twelve battalions of infantry, and was commanded b... ...umna; it consisted of eleven regiments of cavalry and twelve battalions of infantry, and was commanded by General Lake in person. Well, on the 1st of ... ...ear to me. There was — “Mrs. Major-General Bulcher, wife of Bulcher of the Infantry. “Miss Bulcher. “MISS BELINDA BULCHER (whose name I beg the printe...

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...endence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, our army and our navy. These are not our reliance against tyranny All of those ... ... were desirous of regulating their own concerns in their own way, that the British Government should not interfere; that at one 50 The Writings of Ab... ...50 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five time they struggled with the British Government to be permit- ted to exclude the African slave trade,—if... ...dinance for the government of this country, here in Ohio, our neighbors in Indiana, us who live in Illinois, our neighbors in Wisconsin and Michigan. ... ... original States. The same process in a few years was gone through with in Indiana, and so with Illinois, and the same substantially with Michigan and... ...ization which rallies around it. Y ou can scarcely scatter and disperse an army which has been formed into or- der in the face of your heaviest fire; ... ...s cavalry had charged again and again upon the unbroken squares of British infantry, at last they were giving up the attempt, and going off in disorde... ...e mustered into service as 230 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five infantry and cavalry. The proportions of each arm and the de- tails of enro... ...he Regular Army of the United States be increased by the addition of eight regiments of infantry, one regiment of cavalry, and one regiment of artille...

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... for some time, between the years 1824 and 1828, senior officer of a small British Squadron on the West Coast of South America. His book published in ... ...ason or other to the “well-known fact” of two officers in Napoleon’s Grand Army hav- ing fought a series of duels in the midst of great wars and on so... ...fortunes. General Santierra began his service as lieutenant in the patriot army raised and commanded by the famous San Martin, afterwards conqueror of... ...d chief, to whom the defeats of our troops were ascribed. She rode like an Indian woman, astride, wearing a broad-rimmed man’s hat and a dark poncho. ... ...nd running short of ammunition, found his death at the hands of the Arauco Indians, the allies and auxiliaries of Gaspar Ruiz. This was the fatal affa... ...utenants in the Maipu valley. Scouts sent afar brought news of a column of infantry advancing through distant passes to the re- lief of the fort. They... ... would be difficult to imagine for heroes of this leg- end two officers of infantry of the line, for example, 137 Joseph Conrad whose fantasy is tame... ... added to the impressiveness of the affair. Several older officers of both regiments, prompted by nothing but sheer kindness and love of harmony, prop... ...all private feel- ings in a sea of disaster and misery. Colonels with- out regiments, D’Hubert and Feraud carried the musket in the ranks of the so-ca...

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... to guess how he knew she had a brother on the medical staff of one of the regiments in India: she asked 8 Lord Ormont and His Aminta him twice, and ... ...any chance of distinction. No need to say much of his mastering the picked Indian swordsmen in single combat: he knew their trick, and was quick to sa... ...nearly black in their minds. Well, and Englishmen have been known to marry Indian princesses: some have a liking for negresses. There are Nubians rath... ...arked. He dared to claim the countenance of the Commander-in- chief of the Army of India for an act disapproved by the India House. Other letters migh... ...R III THE TUTOR THERE WAS NO COUNTING now on Lord Ormont’s presence in the British gathering seasons, when wheatears wing across our fields or swallow... ...protect the girl. “Your name is Weyburn; your father was an officer in the army, killed on the battle-field, Arthur Abner tells me,” was her somewhat ... ...fi- culty to persuade them!... and my own niece! whom I saw married at the British Embassy in Madrid, as I take good care to tell everybody; for it wa... ...hduke Charles? or cavalry and artillery equal to the Hungarian? or drilled infantry numbering within eighty thousand of the Boulogne-Wimereux camps? W... ...eomanry and volunteer horsemen are becoming a serviceable cavalry arm; our infantry prove that their heterogeneous composition can be welded to a hand...

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...of this past trial as an initiation before entering into life—as our young Indians undergo tortures si- lently before they pass to the rank of warrior... ...officer of King William’s, the bravest and most beloved man of the English army. The two jolly prisoners had been drinking with a party of friends (fo... ...o send from Dunkirk, and which was to swallow up the Prince of Orange, his army and his court. She had received the Duke of Berwick when he landed her... ...ced with six thousand foot, English and Dutch, thirty squadrons, and three regiments of Imperial Cuirassiers, the Duke crossing the river at the head ... ...mbling down the stairs when the fife and drum call you, and huzzah for the British Grenadiers—do you take account that these items go to make up the a... ...d without their soup-kettles, which are as much the palladia of the French infantry as of the Grand Seignior’s Janissaries, and round which they rally... ...ontaining ammunition of all sorts, and was escorted out of Ostend by 2,000 infantry and 300 horse. At the same time M. de la Mothe quitted Bruges, hav...

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... old when he went away.” “Isn’t he very rich?” said Rebecca. “They say all Indian na- bobs are enormously rich.” “I believe he has a very large income... ... minute the father of the family walked in, rattling his seals like a true British merchant. “What’s the matter, Emmy?” says he. “Joseph wants me to s... ...t’s as good as my own curries in India.” “Oh, I must try some, if it is an Indian dish,” said Miss Rebecca. “I am sure everything must be good that co... ...rdinary complacency, she thought in her little heart that in His Majesty’s army, or in the wide world, there never was such a face or such a hero. “I ... ...k; and the colonel and alderman had been knighted. His son had entered the army: and young Osborne followed pres- ently in the same regiment. They had... ...r, to make a little heap for Rebecca. And going to her Papa, that generous British merchant, who had promised to give her as many guineas as she was y... ... of us will lay siege to old Mr. Osborne. So this Machiavellian captain of infantry cast about him for some happy means or stratagem by which he could... ...Y ou don’t know military affairs, my dear. I do, and I tell you there’s no infantry in France can stand against Rooshian infantry, and no general of B... ...-gallery—there was a ride, or an opera. The bands of 278 V anity Fair the regiments were making music at all hours. The greatest folks of England wal...

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...n to geography , or recognised by the muse of History—than at this day the British empire on the sea can be brought into question or made conditional,... ...ef of Owyhee or Tongataboo should proclaim a momentary independence of the British trident, or should even offer a transient outrage to her sovereign ... ...hed nation. They were regarded as barbarians—potent only by their standing army, not upon the larger basis of civic strength; and, even under this lim... ...d sacred: but as a question might still be raised, by means of a mercenary army, as to the claims of the particular individual who at any time filled ... ...vil war, he gave a sum which allowed about two hundred pounds a man to the infantry, and four hundred to the cavalry. It is *Middleton’s Life of Cicer... ...ere he lay indolently stretched amongst favorite ladies, “And like a naked Indian slept himself away.” He had also tables composed of the same delicat... ... good deal of delusion prevalent on such subjects. In some English cavalry regiments, the custom is for the privates to take only one meal a day, whic... ... ascertained that the quantity of porter or substantial ale drunk in these regiments does virtually allow many meals, by comparison with the washy tea... ...arus: it has been conjectured by some writers that they were engaged in an Indian war. Carus, it is certain, met with little resis- tance. He insisted...

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...Dabney’s estate to play with, and they explored it with the stealth of Red Indians and the accuracy of burglars. They could enter either by the Lodge-... ...t attempt to deny it! Ye did. Silence, Sergeant!” T wenty-one years in the army had left their mark on Foxy. He obeyed. “Now. March!” The high Lodge g... ...t us tea when we were moral lepers. Foxy has a heart. Foxy has been in the Army, too.” “I wish I’ d ha’ had you in my company, young gentlemen,” said ... ...inks too. Let’s come out an’ smoke. Here’s a treat.” Stalky held up a long Indian cheroot. “‘Bagged it from my pater last holi- days. I’m a bit shy of... ...r—the Gunner?” Perowne asked. “No, the minor—’Toffee’ Crandall—in a native infantry regiment. He was almost before your time, Perowne.” “The papers di... ...o in the corridor with the little red school-sergeant, telling news of old regiments; they would burst into form-rooms sniffing the well-remembered sm... .... If Mr. Martin had not yet faced an audience of this particular class of British youth, the Head had no doubt that he would find it an interesting e... ...ngle eye to my benefit. There was a baldish, broken-down captain of Native Infantry, shivering with ague behind an indomitable red nose—and they calle...

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...was trot- ting downstairs on his commission. “Obedience is the soul of the army. We will go to our duty while Mrs. O’Dowd will stay and enlighten you,... ...e “Howling Wil- derness,” the “Washerwoman of Wandsworth Common,” and the “British Soldier’s best Bayonet,” which, bent upon awak- ening her before sh... ...on board confidentially that he was going to join the Duke of Wellington’s army, folks mistook him for a great personage, a commissary-general, or a g... ...Y ou don’t know military affairs, my dear. I do, and I tell you there’s no infantry in France can stand against Rooshian infantry, and no general of B... ...woke them in the morning; at nightfall they went to bed to the note of the British fife and drum: all the country and Europe was in arms, and the grea... ... see, or a picture-gallery—there was a ride, or an opera. The bands of the regiments were making music at all hours. The greatest folks of England wal... ...ld-laced cap?” on which Becky replied, “that he was an officer in the East Indian service.” But Rawdon Crawley rode out of the ranks of his company, a... ... the women were praying ten miles away, the lines of the dauntless English infantry were re- ceiving and repelling the furious charges of the French h... ... sum, as George’s guardian, Dobbin proposed to put out at 8 per cent in an Indian house of agency. Mr. Sedley, who thought the Major had some roguish ...

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...from M. le Maistre; the shipwrecks chiefly from Gilly’s ‘Shipwrecks of the British Navy;’ the Jersey Powder Magazine from the Annual Registrer, and th... ...ased after Louis’s death in a condition which disproves this atrocity. The Indian mutiny might likewise have supplied glorious instances of Christian ... ...d yet not without service in showing the dauntless spirit of the Christian army. But the same can hardly be said of the dar- ing shown by the Emperor ... ...w a Roman soldier did his duty. In like manner the last of the old Spanish infantry origi- nally formed by the Great Captain, Gonzalo de Cordova, were... ... costs and all risks is, however, the very essence of a soldier’s life. An army could not exist with- out it, a ship could not sail without it, and mi... ...est acts that history can show. Y et, it was paralleled in the time of the Indian Mutiny, when every English man and woman was flying from the rage of... ...nd other curious plants of the newly won land; here was the breastplate of British pearls that Caesar dedicated to Venus. A band of flute-players foll... ... in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire, of whom he had formed a regiment of infantry. With him was his son Montagu Bertie, Lord Willoughby, a noble-loo... ...nd in the valley he could see with his telescope the various Parliamentary regiments, as they poured out of the town of Keinton, and took up their pos...

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...ighbourhood, peons of the estancias, vaqueros of the seaboard plains, tame Indians coming miles to market with a bundle of sugar-cane or a basket of m... ...ity, and awe. The impious adventurers gave no other sign. The sailors, the Indian, and the stolen burro were never seen again. As to the mozo, a Sulac... ...er. His features were recognized by several deserters from the Dictatorial army amongst the rascally mob already engaged in smashing the windows of th... ...ly, an Englishman who had turned up in Palermo after its evacuation by the army of the king, had given him a Bible in Italian—the publication of the B... ... army of the king, had given him a Bible in Italian—the publication of the British and Foreign Bible Society, bound in a dark leather cover. In peri- ... ... the landau, seemed to look at nothing. The front rank of the com- pany of infantry drawn up three deep across the shore end of the jetty when pressed... ... out to Costaguana, had been surgeon in one of Her 322 Nostromo Majesty’s regiments of foot. It was a conception which took no account of physiologic... ... lucky had happened to him recently. He had seen from a distance Sotillo’s infantry camped along the shore of the harbour on each side of the Custom H...

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...New England port during the war of 1812, she had been captured at sea by a British cruiser, and, after seeing all sorts of service, was at last employ... ...apoleon’s. In one night attack, his invincible musket, backed by the light infantry of spears and javelins, vanquished two clans, and the next morning... ... we had not the undisputed possession of them. Myriads of cockroaches, and regiments of rats dis- puted the place with us. A greater calamity than thi... ...like an old woman seeing the children to bed. A basket of baked “taro,” or Indian tur- nip, was brought in, and we were given a piece all round. Then ... ...d offered to give us, every day, a small quantity of baked bread-fruit and Indian turnip in exchange for the bread. This we agreed to; and every morni... ... It purported to be, “the affidavit of John Jennin, first of- ficer of the British Colonial Barque Julia; Guy, Master;” and proved to be a long statem... ...ling stories; of which the doctor had as many as a half-pay captain in the army. Sometimes we chatted, as well as we could, with the natives; and, one... ...elled from the island. After a short exile he returned from Imeeo, with an army of eight hundred warriors, and in the battle of Narii routed the rebel...

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...we found ourselves again in the great stalwart roast-beef world; the stout British steamer bearing out of the bay, whose purple waters had grown more ... ...hem with dismal gardens of dry cracked earth, where a few reedy sprouts of Indian corn seemed to be the chief cultivation, and which were guarded by h... ...Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and set there to guard the passage for its British mistress. The next British lion is Malta, four days further on in t... ...nd foreign ministers and ambassadors may enjoy a dignified sine- cure; the army will rise to the rank of peaceful constables, not having any more use ... ...e heroism saved his island from the efforts of Mustapha and Dragut, and an army quite as fierce and numerous as that which was baffled before Gibralta... ... is the reason that blundering Yorkshire squires, young dandies from Corfu regiments, jolly sailors from ships in the harbour, and yellow old Indians ... ...m Corfu regiments, jolly sailors from ships in the harbour, and yellow old Indians returning from Bundelcund, should think proper to be enthusiastic a... ..., whither the Sultan goes to sport with his women and mutes. A regiment of infantry, with their music at their head, were march- ing to exercise in th... ...umph of some Byzantian emperor. There were three battalions of the Turkish infantry, exercis- ing here; and they seemed to perform their evolutions in...

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...y, as Michu was watching the park and expecting, after the manner of a red Indian, a propitious moment for his vengeance, the astute Malin, accustomed... ...erious source from which great generals on fields of battle who inflame an army, great orators inspiring vast audiences, and (it must be said) great c... ...n a posi- tion to defend the interests of his ward. He had two sons in the army of the princes, and every day, at the slightest un- usual sound, he be... ...ye. Michu, lying flat on his stomach, his ear to earth, gauged, like a red Indian, by the strength of the sounds the time that remained to him. “I cam... ...the Emperor would have paid the nation for his election by the ruin of the British power. The camp at Boulogne had just been raised. Napoleon, whose s... ...t only of new battles to fight, and his mind was occu- pied in massing his regiments to strike the great blow at the heart of the Prussian monarchy. H... ...d and branches, surrounded by a few fruit-trees, and guarded by pickets of infantry and cavalry. It may be said that the majesty of war appeared here ...

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...he battle of Preston, 1745, made their memorable attack on Sir John Cope’s army, a battery of four field-pieces was stormed and carried by the Cameron... ...hile the civil war was raging, and strag- gling officers from the Highland army were executed with- out mercy, Invernahyle hesitated not to pay his la... ...es regular forces and militia, furnished a vol- unteer brigade of cavalry, infantry, and artillery, to the amount of six thousand men and upwards, whi... ...—Sometimes this mister wight held his hands clasped over his head, like an Indian Jogue in the attitude of penance; sometimes he swung them perpendicu... ...al cause of their being written, without a glance into the interior of the British Cabinet at the period in question. The Ministers of the day happene... ...e himself could have expected; but it is men- tioned of the North American Indians, when at the stake of torture, that on the least intermission of ag... ...at he protested he could beat any known march or point of war known in the British army, and had accordingly commenced with ‘Dumbarton’s Drums,’ when ... ..., to attain their place in the march, by keeping at some distance from the infantry, and making their way through the enclosures to the right, at the ... ... and pointed against the heights. The march was continued by three or four regiments of in- fantry marching in open column, their fixed bayonets show-...

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...nsider- able action and reaction between the two classical churches of the British soil. Such was the varying condition, when sketched in outline, of ... ... as one section in that general extension of religious machinery which the British people, by their government and their legislature, have for many ye... ...nd lately in Lord Amherst’s progress through the northern provinces of our Indian empire, &c. we read con- tinually of the Khelawt, or robe of state, ... ..., must in any age ensure. Of Charlemagne, in an age when as yet the use of infantry was but imperfectly known, it may be said symbollically, that he f... ...s. In the one case we find a general, the leader of a soi-disant Christian army, the representative of the ‘most Christian’ nation, and, as amongst in... ...eir speedy re-appearance as active enemies to a diminished and debilitated army; for, as to sending them off by sea, that measure was impracti- cable,... ...rhaps the right, for the Prussian cavalry (who drew their custom from some regiments in the service 107 Thomas de Quincey of Gustavus Adolphus; and t... ...ibes of those savages, and, upon a scale still more awful, to the American Indians. In such cases, mere strangers would 132 Theological Essays and Ot...

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...eying the Captain’s orders. But the husband of the other woman—he’s in the Army—wrote me no end of a letter of thanks. I don’t suppose he considered t... ...osts, assaulters of innocent citizens, and recklessly daring heroes in the Army List. Half Europe and half Asia has had cause to know the Black T yron... ...“Opin ordher! Double!” sez Crook. “Blow, child, blow for the honour of the British Arrmy!” ‘That bhoy blew like a typhoon, an’ the Tyrone an’ we opine... ...had experience. Now, the Mother Superior of a Convent and the Colonel of a British Infantry Regiment would be justly shocked at any comparison being m... ...rience. Now, the Mother Superior of a Convent and the Colonel of a British Infantry Regiment would be justly shocked at any comparison being made betw... ...nown a woman treat me like this before. I might be— Dash it, I might be an Infantry subaltern! (Aloud.) Oh, please don’t trouble. I’m not worth thinki... ...girl to come out to— what is it Thackeray says?—’the splendid palace of an Indian pro-consul.’ DOONE. Which reminds me. My quarters leak like a sieve.... ...bling. Thank Goodness, here’s Anthony—looking like a ghost. Enter ANTHONY, Indian Medical Staff, very white and tired. ANTHONY. ‘Evening, Blayne. It’s... ... pattern that all the saddlers must copy—and so it will be used by all the regiments. MRS. G. And that interests you? CAPT . G. It’s part of my profes...

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...o you always stand out after half a dozen turns? I thought officers in the Army didn’t tell fibs. CAPT. G. It wasn’t a fib, believe me. I really do wa... ...nown a woman treat me like this before. I might be— Dash it, I might be an Infantry subaltern! (Aloud.) Oh, please 12 Rudyard Kipling don’t trouble. ... ...caught by a Colonel’s daughter, and (looking cautiously round room.) Black Infantry at that! No offence to you, Blayne. BLAYNE. (Stiffly.) Not much, t... ...f his love as sure as death. Have you ever noticed the thorough-minded way British Cavalry take to cholera? It’s because they are so expensive. If the... ... 22 Rudyard Kipling what is it Thackeray says?— “the splendid palace of an Indian pro-consul.” DOONE. Which reminds me. My quarters leak like a sieve.... ...richer—either way. BLAYNE. Can’t you take leave? Done. That’s the pull you Army men have over us. T en days are nothing in your sight. I’m so importan... ...bbling Thank Goodness, here’s Anthony-looking like a ghost. Enter ANTHONY, Indian Medical Staff, very white and tired. ANTHONY. ‘Evening, Blayne. It’s... ... pattern that all the saddlers must copy—and so it will be used by all the regiments. MRS. G. And that interests you? CAPT . G. It’s part of my profes...

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...f national prowess. This is the principle upon which, very naturally , our British school- boys value a battle. Painful it is to add, that this is the... ...he shipwreck on the coast of Peru, the rescue of the royal banner from the Indians of Chili, the fatal duel in the dark, the astonishing passage of th... ...’s family. Both served for many years in India: the first in the Company’s army, the other upon the staff of the king’s forces in that country. Each, ... ...rously awful, though, at that time, the practice was common throughout our Indian possessions. He had a Hindoo servant with him; and this servant ever... ...apoleon, his very existence depended upon war. He lived by and through the army. Without a succession of wars and martial glories in reserve for the a... ...ng men, aged severally sixteen and seventeen years, went out to join their regiments, both regiments be- ing on the Bengal establishment. Very differe... ... Or do we grind her still?” Pretty much the same authority it is which the British public of this day has for its craze upon the subject of English op... ...s, as it were, the army, and the colleges express the several brigades, or regiments. To resume, therefore, my own thread of personal narra- tion. On ... ... Greek volunteers, of birth and education, the very élite of the insurgent infantry. The T urks gave themselves up for lost; but, happening to observe...

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...hundred this would have happened. You can see the principle working in any Indian Station. But this particular case fell through because The Boy was s... ...m across Dunmaya, the daughter of a Rajput ex- Subadar-Major of our Native Army. The girl had a strain of Hill blood in her, and, like the Hill women,... ...es enough for that. She was the exception which proved the rule that Anglo-Indian ladies are in every way as nice as their sisters at Home. She spent ... ...I am writing of took place in an almost pre-historic era in the history of British India. Some folk may remember the years before lawn-tennis was born... ...pped the key of the telegraph instrument, and went out, at the head of his army, to meet the mob. As the shouting crew came round a corner of the road... ...urf, like a shot rabbit, the watch and guard flew from his waistcoat—as an Infantry Major’s sword hops out of the scabbard when they are firing a feu ... ...the Government that he had a scheme whereby a very large percentage of the British Army in India could be fed, at a very large saving, on Pig. Then he... ...ite Hussars by their “side,” which is greater than that of all the Cavalry Regiments on the roster. If this is not a sufficient mark, you may know the... ...e one great and peculiar privilege. They won it at Fontenoy, I think. Many Regiments possess special rights, such as wearing col- lars with undress un...

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...hitherward, from the claws of the Chatelet; and will raise whole scoundrel-regiments. Also it has to hear of Royalist Camp of Jales: Jales moun- tain-... ...might be reconquered by theatrical machinery, by the picture of a Royalist Army done to the life! (Dampmartin, Evenemens, i. 208.) Not till the third ... ...spitting streaks of fire? A sea cockfight it is, and of the hottest; where British Serapis and French-American Bon Homme Richard do lash and throttle ... ...hich may never arrive. Few years ago Bouille was to have led a French East-Indian Expedition, and recon- quered or conquered Pondicherri and the Kingd... ...neral outlook of things, Bouille himself augurs not well of it. The French Army, ever since those old Bastille days, and earlier, has been universally... ...y: it has some forty thousand divided souls of population; and three large Regiments, one of which is Swiss Chateau- Vieux, dear to Patriotism ever si... ...lesse in epaulettes; the grim Patriot Swiss of Chateau-Vieux, effervescent infantry of Regiment du Roi, hot troopers of Mestre-de-Camp! Walled Nanci, ... ...mpmartin, and subalterns be- neath him, and General Choisi above him, with Infantry and Cavalry, and proper cannon-carriages rattling in front, with s...

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...andahar, ridin’ two an’ two. —Barrack-Room Ballad. ‘I’M NOT ANGRY with the British public, but I wish we had a few thousand of them scattered among th... ...ghting for the dear life, in a town called Khartoum. There were columns of British troops in the desert, or in one of the many deserts; there were yet... ...thrilled and interested, whether Gordon lived or died, or half the British army went to pieces in the sands. The Soudan campaign was a picturesque one... ... That scrub’s alive with enemy.’ The camel-corps on the bank yelled to the infantry to come to them, and a hoarse shouting down the river showed that ... ...n a Kentish hop-garden seen when the train races by at full speed; and the infantry fire, held till the oppor- tune moment, dropped them in close-pack... ...ndents, skip- pers of the contract troop-ships employed in the cam- paign, army officers by the score, and others of less 25 Rudyard Kipling reputabl... ... when they find that they’ve been getting Out of England by next Tuesday’s Indian mail.’ Following the trampling of feet, slamming of Torpenhow’s door... ...d. We shall have to be hauled up, as usual.—Somebody tell me if there’s an Indian con- 149 Rudyard Kipling tingent, or I’ll break everybody’s head.—D... ...ter end she smiled upon scowling and furtive Turkish officers of fellaheen regiments, and more than kind to camel agents of no nationality whatever. I...

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...l not be troubled to favour you with a taste of it, or, by Bacchus and his Indian nymphs, I should speedily behold you jumping like peas in a pan, lik... ...nnot trust him. I do not. But, if we make such a tide in Lombardy that his army must be drawn into it, is such an army to be refused? First, the tide,... ...t will not accept it for its loath- someness. There were Englishmen in the army of Austria. Could one of them be this one whom she had cared for when ... ...as from a rock of defence. A group of officers, of the cavalry, with a few infantry uni- forms skirting them, were sitting in the pleasant cooling eve... ...her than any immediate settled scheme to watch at the gates. Artillery and infantry were in motion before sunrise, from various points of the city, be... ...k marble. CHAPTER XVII IN THE PIAZZA D’ARMI CARLO AND LUCIANO followed the regiments to the Piazza d’Armi, drawn after them by that irresistible attra... ...to disconcert a youngster such as he was; nor have the subalterns of Croat regiments a very signal repu- tation for efficiency in the Austrian Service... ...ia him; he was accustomed to inquire of Angelo’s condition, and praise the British doctor who was attending him gratu- itously. “I wish I could get hi...

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...s beating. After that he will be as se curely brave as any veteran in the army—and there will not be a shade nor suggestion of personal merit in it... ... better things than that, and it did not enthuse over that crude Salvation Army eloquence. It was courteous to Holme— but cool. It did not pet him, di... ..., greatly performed. Take it to pieces and examine it, if you like. Y.M. A British troop ship crowded with soldiers and their wives and children. She ... ...t let us look further before we decide. The ant has soldiers—bat talions, regiments, armies; and they have their appointed captains and generals, who... ... he had his own cares, and deeper. From two direc tions two long files of infantry came plowing through the pack and press in silence; there was a lo... ...and chain and other millinery so that Columbus could discover America. The Indian wars were very desecrating to the country. The Indians pursued their... ...dge of all men twenty five hundred years before the Christian era. Our red Indians have left many records, in the form of pictures, upon our crags and...

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...native land; Tartar and Frank, and millions whom the wings _3835 Of Indian breezes lull, and many a band The Arctic Anarch sent, and Idumea’s s... ...earth; _3885 The wheeled artillery’s speed the pavement tore; The infantry, file after file, did pour Their clouds on the utmost hills. Five ... ... _505 And therefore dared to be a liar! In truth, the Indian on the pyre Of her dead husband, half consumed, As well might there ... ...lar thieves to represent; _165 An army; and a public debt. 5. 5. 5. 5. 5. Which last is a scheme of paper mon... ...Radical-butchers, Paper-money-millers, Bishops and Deacons, and the entire army Of those fat martyrs to the persecution Of stifling turtle-soup, and b... ...hat’s the matter, my dear fellow, now? Do the troops mutiny?—decimate some regiments; Does money fail?—come to my mint—coin paper, Till gold be at a d... ...f ocean to the Islamite.— Now shall the blazon of the cross be veiled, And British skill directing Othman might, Thunder-strike rebel victory. Oh, kee... ...e engine of parliaments Might be deferred until I can bring over The Irish regiments: they will serve to assure The issue of the war against the Scots...

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...done.” “It wouldn’t be a bad idea to hand him over to some public body—the British Museum Trustees, or the Royal College of Physicians. Sounds a bit o... ... city. And underneath these wandered the countless flocks and herds of the British Food Trust with their lonely guards and keepers. Not a familiar out... ...a and jostled Spanish- English at Gdiz, a Gallicised Russian which met the Indian English in Persia and Kurdistan and the “Pidgin” English in Pekin, a... ...illiant, the language of lucidity, which shared the Mediterranean with the Indian English and German and reached through a negro dialect to the Congo.... ..., may remember it—an emotional religious organisation called the Salvation Army—that became a business company. In the first place it was almost a cha... ... the earliest properties your Trustees acquired. They bought the Salvation Army and reconstructed it as this. The idea in the first place was to give ... ... for ever. That day began with the bowmen of Crecy, it ended when marching infantry, when common men in masses ceased to win the battles of the world,... ...n has been shown. It is their own negroes—French speaking negroes. Senegal regiments, and Niger and Timbuctoo.” “Regiments?” said Graham, “I thought t...

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...on. The Highlanders, who formed the principal strength of Charles Edward’s army, were an ancient and high-spirited race, peculiar in their hab- its of... ...nce, young, valiant, patient of fatigue, and despising danger, heading his army on foot in the most toilsome marches, and defeating a regular force in... ...enough to induce him to risk himself within the dangerous precincts of the British capital. This appears from Dr. King’s Anecdotes of His Own Times. ‘... ... countenance forbid such a suspicion, I might think myself the son of some Indian director, or rich citizen, who had more wealth than grace, and a han... ...fety and future for- tunes, from visiting England; every other part of the British dominions, and a tour, if I pleased, on the Continent, being left t... ...eft side of the brook, the Quaker and I sauntered on, like the cavalry and infantry of the same army occupying the oppo- site banks of a river, and ob... ...ttom of the room, apparently intent upon examining the figures upon a fine Indian screen, a present to the provost from his brother, cap- tain of a ve... ...rs, upon whom alone the trust of the exiled family reposed, assembled into regiments which act under the orders of the existing dynasty. [The Highland... ... I have come here, of course, sufficiently supported both with cavalry and infantry, to do whatever might be nec- essary; but my commands are—and I am...

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................................................................ 37 THE YOUNG BRITISH SOLDIER .............................................................. ............................................................ 270 “BACK TO THE ARMY AGAIN” .................................................................. ...he spree, ‘E’s the on’y thing that doesn’t give a damn For a Regiment o’ British Infantree! So ‘ere’s to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your ‘ome in the S... ...ty gunners be’ind me, an’ never a beggar forgets It’s only the pick of the Army that handles the dear little pets — ‘Tss! ‘Tss! For you ... ..., But Two’s off-lead ‘e answered to the name o’ Snarleyow. Down in the Infantry, nobody cares; Down in the Cavalry, Colonel ‘e swears; But... ...want to win your battles take an’ work your bloomin’ guns! Down in the Infantry, nobody cares; Down in the Cavalry, Colonel ‘e swears; But... ... From Harrison’s down to the Park! There was a row in Silver Street — the regiments was out, They called us “Delhi Rebels”, an’ we answered “Threes a... ...ore than a hundred years ago, in a great battle fought near Delhi, an Indian Prince rode fifty miles after the day was lost with a beggar-gi... ...some, but you know the Army knows; We was put to groomin’ camels till the regiments withdrew, An’ they gave us each a medal for subduin’ England’s fo...

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...Grant, and his younger brother, Solomon, held com- missions in the English army, in 1756, in the war against the French and Indians. Both were killed ... ...- missions in the English army, in 1756, in the war against the French and Indians. Both were killed that year. My grandfather, also named Noah, was t... ...nd Lexington, he went with a Connecti- cut company to join the Continental army, and was present at the battle of Bunker Hill. He served until the fal... ...n Connecticut until old enough to do for himself, when he emigrated to the British West Indies. Not long after his settlement in Pennsylvania, my gran... ...any one study, during the four years. I came near it in French, artillery, infantry and cavalry tac- tics, and conduct. Early in the session of the Co... ...f the class were called upon to record their choice of arms of service and regiments. I was anxious to enter the cavalry, or dragoons as they were the... ...d lieutenants. I recorded therefore my first choice, dragoons; second, 4th infantry; and got the latter. Again there was a furlough—or, more properly ... ... least one of these hamlets lived underground for pro- tection against the Indians. The country abounded in game, such as deer and antelope, with abun... ...ination of the war, but also because foreign governments, particularly the British Government, were constantly threatening that unless ours could main...

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...lectively, they’re just a mob of Anglo-Indi- ans. Who cares for what Anglo-Indians say? Your salon won’t weld the Departments together and make you mi... ... The Mussuck. How badly he rides. There!’ She blew a kiss to the venerable Indian ad- ministrator with infinite grace. 12 Under the Deodars ‘Now,’ sh... ...” He whines: ‘’Why haven’t I been given this and that?” If you were in the Army, I should say learn to spin plates or play a tambourine with your toes... ...the difficulties and privations inseparable from Military Service. —Bengal Army Regulations. THEY MADE BOBBY WICK pass an examination at Sandhurst. He... ...tin spurs and rode qualified mokes at the hiatused heads of forsaken Black Regiments. He was a rude man and a terrible. Wherefore the remnant took mea... ...n the end of a chewed stick. Bobby did not kneel and worship them, because British subalterns are not constructed in that manner. Indeed, he condemned... ...rts of the camp, and heading back men who, with the innate per- versity of British soldiers, were always wander- ing into infected villages, or drinki... ...rience. Now, the Mother Superior of a Convent and the Colonel of a British Infantry Regiment would be justly shocked at any comparison being made betw... ... ‘ole lot O’ you! Colonel John Anthony Deever, C.B.!”—he turned toward the Infantry Mess and shook his rifle-”you think yourself the devil of a man-bu...

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...nch envoy in the camp of the victorious Ibrahim, the march of the Egyptian army was stopped—the menaced empire of 19 Burlesques the Ottomans was save... ...ey say in the ring. Cambaceres was known to be the best shot in the French army; but I, who am a pretty good hand at a snipe, thought a man was bigger... ...y in the intervals, and con- verging by different epaulements on the light infantry, that 38 Thackeray formed, as usual, the centre of the line. It w... ...her mind was duty above every other feeling!— so strong may it be in every British maiden!) the lovely girl kept her promise. “My former engagements,”... ...id Louis XVI., looking rather awkward. “Approach, Tatua.” And the gigantic Indian strode up, and stood undaunted before the first magistrate of the Fr... ...the denizen of the primaeval forests. The redoubted chief of the Nose-ring Indians was deco- rated in his war-paint, and in his top-knot was a peacock... ...ver his head, and putting his arms a-kimbo, “we have learned that from the British, to whom we are superior in everything: and I’d have your Majesty t... ...itle of the Grand Army of the Ganges and the Jumna; it consisted of eleven regiments of cavalry and twelve battalions of infantry, and was commanded b... ...umna; it consisted of eleven regiments of cavalry and twelve battalions of infantry, and was commanded by General Lake in person. Well, on the 1st of ...

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...ealized to the English mind as suppression of rebellion and maintenance of British dominion, and to the American as defence of liberty, resis- tance t... ...f to Richard’s good breeding). Well, no sir. At least, 35 GB Shaw only an army chaplain. (Showing the handcuffs.) I’m sorry, air; but duty— RICHARD. ... .... 44 The Devil’s Disciple ACT III Early next morning the sergeant, at the British headquarters in the T own Hall, unlocks the door of a little empty ... ...nd nearly half our troops are Hessians, Brunswickers, German dragoons, and Indians with scalping knives. These are the countrymen on whose devotion yo... ...forms are those of the 9th, 2Oth, 21st, 24th, 47th, 53rd, and 62nd British Infantry. One officer is a Major General of the Royal Artillery. There are ... ...an officers of the Hessian Rifles, and of German dra- goon and Brunswicker regiments.) Oh, good morning, gentle- men. Sorry to disturb you, I am sure.... ... excuse my saying so. Have you any idea of the average marksmanship of the army of His Majesty King George the Third? If we make you up a firing party... ..., are heard; and a com- pany of soldiers with fixed bayonets, half British infantry, half Hessians, tramp quickly into the middle of the market place,... ...ccasion by handing him back his sword. In connection with the reference to Indians with scalping knives, who, with the troops hired from Germany, made...

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...uite agile. It was not until after that dreadful siege of our house by the Indians, which left me a widow ere I was a mother, that my dear mother’s he... ...his youth:— ”Were your father, Madam,” he said, “to go into the woods, the Indians would elect him Sachem;” and his lordship was pleased to call me Po... ...at he asked leave to serve as a vol- unteer, and join the Duke of Argyle’s army in Scotland, which the Pretender never had the courage to face; and th... ... a story (whereof I myself was the au- thor) was got to be believed in the army, that he was eldest son of the hereditary Grand Bootjack of the Empire... ...eep pretty generally), Esmond read many volumes of the works of the famous British Divines of the last age, and was familiar with W ake and Sherlock, ... ...ced with six thousand foot, English and Dutch, thirty squadrons, and three regiments of Imperial Cuirassiers, the Duke crossing the river at the head ... ...mbling down the stairs when the fife and drum call you, and huzzah for the British Grenadiers—do you take account that these items go to make up the a... ...d without their soup-kettles, which are as much the palladia of the French infantry as of the Grand Seignior’s Janissaries, and round which they rally... ...ontaining ammunition of all sorts, and was escorted out of Ostend by 2,000 infantry and 300 horse. At the same time M. de la Mothe quitted Bruges, hav...

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...Valladolid, were the King and his Court. Consequently, there was plenty of regiments and plenty of regimental bands. Attracted by one of these, Catali... ...ral, had a right to expect. This ship was full of recruits for the Spanish army, and bound to Concepcion. Even in that destiny was an iteration, or re... ...r all, that did most to serve our Kate, was Kate. War was then raging with Indians, both from Chili and Peru. Kate had always done her duty in action;... ...r a 100 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers small party—galloped after the Indian column that was car- rying away the trophy—charged—saw all her own p... ... obliged to do such things. Besides all these grounds of evil, the Spanish army had just there an extra demoralization from a war with sav- ages—faith... ... hours; but the Khan having too great advantages, namely, a strong body of infantry, who had been conveyed by sections of five on about two hundred ca... ...ing cut down; but at length Zebek succeeded in rallying a strong column of infantry, which, with the sup- port of the camel-corps on each flank, compe... ... especially in the rainy season, the Ganges is the cock of the walk in our British orient. Else, as regards the body of water discharged, the absolute... ... a step above even that object which some four-and-twenty years ago in the British Museum struck me as simply the sublimest sight which in this sight-...

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...between Rockhampton and London, who had risen to the rank of sarang on the British India boats, but wearying of routine musters and clean clothes, had... ...l right. He’s got something on his mind. You’d think that ten years in the British India boats would have knocked most of his religion out of him.” “S... .... Two full months before the time!” “ That’s why it comes. I’ve only known Indian rivers for five-and-twenty years, and I don’ t pretend to understand... ... now royally wasting the revenues accumulated dur- ing his minority by the Indian Government. His steam-launch, 33 The Day’s Work with its silverplat... ...n Chinn the Second was rather clever, but as the eldest son he entered the army, according to Chinn tradition. His duty was to abide in his father’s r... ...he Order of British India, with thirty-five years’ spotless service in the army, and a rank among his own people superior to that of many Bengal princ... ...sat on his pilot as he went forward, and on his tender as he returned; and regiments of men ran along the tops of the box-cars beside him, screwing do... ...n- try-carts, by their masters, who belonged to a poor but hon- est native infantry regiment. “Money means pace and weight,” said Shiraz, rubbing his ... ... tune called “Freshly Fresh and Newly New,” just as a warning to the other regiments that the Skidars were fit. All the natives laughed. “And now,” sa...

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...mpiegne, the old King of France, on foot, with doffed hat, in sight of his army, at the side of a magnificent phaeton, doing homage the— Dubarry. ’ (L... ...rom the day when rough Clovis, in the Champ de Mars, in sight of his whole army, had to cleave retributively the head of that rough Frank, with sudden... ...e never to have a Navy.’ Brave Suffren must return from Hyder Ally and the Indian Waters; with small re- sult; yet with great glory for ‘six non-defea... ...under the nurture of a ‘Friend of Men,’ has, in State Prisons, in marching Regiments, Dutch Authors’ garrets, and quite other scenes, ‘been for twenty... ... Lomenie’s by adoption. Not in vain has Lomenie studied the working of the British Constitution; for he professes to have some Anglo- mania, of a sort... ...! The other captive Bodyguard is still circling the corpse of Jerome, amid Indian war-whooping; bloody Tilebeard, with tucked sleeves, brandishing his... ...itting streaks of fire? A sea cock- fight it is, and of the hottest; where British Serapis and French- American Bon Homme Richard do lash and throttle... ...sse in epaulettes; the grim Patriot Swiss of Cha- teau-Vieux, effervescent infantry of Regiment du Roi, hot troopers of Mestre-de-Camp! Walled Nanci, ... ...Dampmartin, and subalterns beneath him, and General Choisi above him, with Infantry and Cavalry, and proper cannon-carriages rattling in front, with s...

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...a Ford....................313 Bivouac on a Mountain Side..............313 An Army Corps on the March...........314 By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame......... ...f the long running Mississippi, and down to the Mexican sea, Chants of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota, Chants going forth from... ...e corrupting below; Where the dense starr’d flag is borne at the head of the regiments, Approaching Manhattan up by the long stretching island, Under ... ...taracts, forests, volcanoes, groups, Malaysia, Polynesia, and the great West Indian islands. 3 What do you hear Walt Whitman? I hear the workman ... ...and lock’d in its mountains, The spread of the Baltic, Caspian, Bothnia, the British shores, and the bay of Biscay, The clear sunn’d Mediterranean, an... ...reak call—hark! how loud and clear I hear it wind, Swift! to the head of the army!—swift! spring to your places, Pioneers! O pioneers! TO Y OU Wh... ...ps, the arm’d sentries around, the sunrise cannon and again at sunset, Arm’d regiments arrive every day, pass through the city, and embark from the wh... ... of a sudden unlook’d for by defiles through the woods, gain’d at night, The British advancing, rounding in from the east, fiercely playing their guns... ...and all the old mad joy in the depths of my soul,) And ever the hastening of infantry shifting positions, batteries, cavalry, moving hither and thithe...

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...ce Club. He had lately married an heiress in a small way, retired from the army, and settled in a house of hers in a country town, and thus he could g... ... own in Bible and Catechism questions! Ask your brother if they can’t. And Army is a dear little fellow, with a bit of the angel, or of his father, in... ...had taken a great fancy. “I shall learn the habits of the genuine species, British farmer,” said he, as his mother kissed him, and declared him the be... ...nd this had never been forgiven. The young couple had gone out to the West Indian isles, where the early home of her husband had been, and where he he... ...ht to the pound. (H. S. H.) 6th.—Mr. B. keeps a bloodhound trained to hunt Indians, and has six pounds of prime beef steaks for it every day . (Emma.)... ...a year or two will show it. Which shall it be? Do you go in for cavalry or infantry? I like cav- alry, but he’s all for the other.” Jock was wearied e... ...ames’s Indian and Crimean campaigns, and for the comparative merits of the regiments his nephew had beheld at reviews. He was interrupted by a message... ... pers or to bestow his time somewhere—in the picture galler- ies or in the British Museum, where he had a reading order; but it was always uncertain w...