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Updated: May 11, 2025
The next number was thus announced: "Le Camarade Millet will sound, first, all the French bugle-calls and then the Boche ones." Le Camarade Millet, a big man with a fine horseshoe beard, stood at the edge of the stage, said, "la Charge français" and blew it on the bugle; then "la Charge boche," and blew that. "La Retraite français La Retraite boche," etc.
The signal for the Indians to attack was never given. Instead, the bugle-calls of the relieving force, for which my ears had thirsted so long, burst out, terrifying like the call of the Last Day to our surprised enemies.
And every morning, too, the drums would sound from the hill at our back; and be answered by a soldier, who came steadily down the roadway beside the dock, halted in front of our gates, and blew a call on his bugle. Other bugle-calls sounded all around us throughout the day and far into our sleep-time: but this was the only performer I ever saw.
There were always officers riding, squads of soldiers moving about, bugle-calls in all directions, and continuous arrivals at the station of deputies and journalists hurrying to the palace, their black portfolios under their arms. The palace was cold.
A view of Delhi Vicissitudes of the city Its defences defences The ridge Position of our camp Our position The Goorkhas Cholera raging Heat and flies Executions The Metcalfe pickets A sortie expected expected Hodson Bombardment of Metcalfe picket Enemy reported moving on Alipore A force sent after them The action described Forces complimented by Sir Henry Barnard His death His services Our meagre armament Scarcity of ammunition Amusing incident The Metcalfe house Our bugle-calls in use by the enemy A sortie Ruse by the enemy's cavalry Gallant conduct of Lieutenant Hills and Major Tombs, Bengal Artillery Expedition under Brigadier Chamberlain Chamberlain Gallant conduct of Brigadier Wm.
I have carried him thousands and thousands of miles on scout duty for the army, and there's not a gorge, nor a pass, nor a valley, nor a fort, nor a trading post, nor a buffalo-range in the whole sweep of the Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains that we don't know as well as we know the bugle-calls. He is Chief of Scouts to the Army of the Frontier, and it makes us very important.
They went out like French matches, sputtering before they died. In all parts of Paris there were thousands of people watching the apparition in the sky. On the heights of the Sacre Coeur inhabitants of Montmartre gathered and thrilled to the flashing of the searchlights and the bursting of shrapnel. The bugle-calls bidding everybody stay indoors had brought Paris out of bed and out of doors.
He was an Irishman, also, and when any bugle-call and when any bugle-call sounded he had to ask some one what it was. There was a great deal of uncertainty about bugle-calls, I noticed, among officers as well as men.
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