Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 186William Blackwood, 1909 - England |
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... soldier than have the islands of Great Britain . Among these , although others may have attained to wider celebrity , certainly none more truly deserved the the title of hero than did Neville Bowles Chamberlain , the subject of this ...
... soldier than have the islands of Great Britain . Among these , although others may have attained to wider celebrity , certainly none more truly deserved the the title of hero than did Neville Bowles Chamberlain , the subject of this ...
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... soldier who ever trod in Afghanistan . " It is hard to guess what a young man of such high spirit , and so thirst- ing for excitement and action as Neville Chamberlain , might have become if condemned to the inactivity and drudgery of ...
... soldier who ever trod in Afghanistan . " It is hard to guess what a young man of such high spirit , and so thirst- ing for excitement and action as Neville Chamberlain , might have become if condemned to the inactivity and drudgery of ...
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... soldier's profession to kill his enemies in battle , and had I not done my utmost I should have failed in my duty to my masters , the Queen , and John Company . " Thereafter followed in rapid succession the outbreak at Kabul , the ...
... soldier's profession to kill his enemies in battle , and had I not done my utmost I should have failed in my duty to my masters , the Queen , and John Company . " Thereafter followed in rapid succession the outbreak at Kabul , the ...
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... soldier is too valuable to be overlooked . The Chamberlains had no resources beyond their pay , and during the first year or so of their service in Afghan- istan , when they were only ensigns of native infantry , native infantry , they ...
... soldier is too valuable to be overlooked . The Chamberlains had no resources beyond their pay , and during the first year or so of their service in Afghan- istan , when they were only ensigns of native infantry , native infantry , they ...
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... soldiers of duce . Eight years before , in the Frontier Force . After the 1849 , Chamberlain wrote- capture of Lucknow the Pun- jabi troops openly boasted that they had reconquered Hindu- stan for us . As Sir John Lawrence wrote to Lord ...
... soldiers of duce . Eight years before , in the Frontier Force . After the 1849 , Chamberlain wrote- capture of Lucknow the Pun- jabi troops openly boasted that they had reconquered Hindu- stan for us . As Sir John Lawrence wrote to Lord ...
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