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I thought of them as I had seen them in the morning riding forward through the rain thousands of independent riflemen, thinking for themselves, possessed of beautiful weapons, led with skill, living as they rode without commissariat or transport or ammunition column, moving like the wind, and supported by iron constitutions and a stern, hard Old Testament God who should surely smite the Amalekites hip and thigh.
Monsieur Carre-Lamadon, a man of wide experience in the cotton industry, had taken care to send six hundred thousand francs to England as provision against the rainy day he was always anticipating. As for Loiseau, he had managed to sell to the French commissariat department all the wines he had in stock, so that the state now owed him a considerable sum, which he hoped to receive at Havre.
In this loose and desultory but exceedingly arduous warfare, the irregulars and friendlies undoubtedly proved far more efficient than the regular troops had usually been permitted to be. They did not think it useless to follow the enemy into the bush; far from it. They went there to seek him out. They could march many miles in a day, and were not fastidious as to commissariat.
More than half the men's boots were in holes. But this defect was not due to any fault of the regimental commander, for in spite of repeated demands boots had not been issued by the Austrian commissariat, and the regiment had marched some seven hundred miles.
Lastly, they had taken a fancy to me, because I saved one of their comrade's lives the man who showed you up here." "Well, lad, you shall tell me all about it, this evening. I must be going down to the commissariat yard, to arrange the landing of my beasts. I came straight to see you, directly I landed. We dropped anchor here at daybreak." "I will go with you, uncle.
Captain Lincoln was drilling his men, marching the twenty or so "by the front," when he found himself before a gap in the fence through which he wanted to go. In the Black Hawk War, Captain Lincoln came to cross-purposes with the regular army commissariat.
But here the tragedy is enacted with no narrower limits than the boundaries of a kingdom, the victims an entire people, within our own days, at our own thresholds." Commissariat Series, part 1, p. 438. The italics are Captain Wynne's. Report of Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends, pp. 180-2. Census of Ireland for the Year 1851. Report on tables of deaths.
A man was coming to meet them an investigating agent attached to the general commissariat department at Dieppe. "They are asking for Monsieur Henri on the telephone," he announced. De Loubersac rushed to the police station. Over the telephone, a War Office colleague informed him that the fugitive corporal, accompanied by a priest, had during the last hour arrived at a garage in Rouen.
The commissariat and transport departments are said to have been badly organized; but some thousands of baggage camels always accompanied an army, carrying stores and provisions. Of these a considerable portion were laden with arrows, of which the supply was in this way rendered inexhaustible. The use of the elephant in war was still more rare in Parthia than that of the chariot.
Our provisions consisted of about ten pounds of hard bread, a twenty-gallon breaker of water, two thirds full, and three gallons of rum. Really a fatality appeared to follow us as regards our commissariat. Beginning with our first drenching on the St.
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