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It is amusing, on a division's first taking up its ground, to see the numbers of hares that are, every instant, starting up among the men, and the scrambling and shouting of the soldiers for the prize.
Provide him with a lavish supply of grease-paint, wigs, and the contents of the chaplain's or the officer of his division's wardrobe, and the success or otherwise of his turn, when it ultimately comes, matters little to the sailor-man. He has had his hour. In front of the stage, a little in advance of the men, rows of chairs and benches provided sitting accommodation for the officers.
The black flag was carried to within 900 yards of Colonel Maxwell's left. Learning from their earlier failure, the Khalifa's men directed their attack upon the Egyptian troops. But the British division's cross-fire smote them, and the guns and Maxims knocked all cohesion out of their ranks. Still defiantly they set their standards and died around them.
"Yes, that is right; you've made it out," Says Mary, with a pretty pout, "Subtraction don't me please." Division's next upon the list; Young Henry taught while Mary kiss'd, And much admired the rule; "Now, Henry, don't you think me quick?" "Why, yes, indeed, you've learn'd the trick At kissing you're no fool."
March through Washington Reporting to Burnside The Ninth Corps Burnside's personal qualities To Leesboro Straggling Lee's army at Frederick Our deliberate advance Reno at New Market The march past Reno and Hayes Camp gossip Occupation of Frederick Affair with Hampton's cavalry Crossing Catoctin Mountain The valley and South Mountain Lee's order found Division of his army Jackson at Harper's Ferry Supporting Pleasonton's reconnoissance Meeting Colonel Moor An involuntary warning Kanawha Division's advance Opening of the battle Carrying the mountain crest The morning fight Lull at noon Arrival of supports Battle renewed Final success Death of Reno Hooker's battle on the right His report Burnside's comments Franklin's engagement at Crampton's Gap.
At 1.50 a wireless came in to say that the Irish and Hants from the River Clyde had forced their way through Sedd-el-Bahr village and had driven the enemy clean out of all his trenches and castles. Ah, well; that load is off our minds: every one smiling. Passed on the news to Birdwood: I doubt the Turks coming on again but, in case, the 29th Division's feat of arms will be a tonic. I was wrong.
The Russians, stimulated by our 2nd Division's apparent terror, and finding also that they were steadily gaining upon the chase, strained every nerve to overtake them, and at length came pounding round the point in great style.
Perhaps he considered his positions impregnable they would have been practically impregnable in British hands and he made no attempt to cut support trenches behind the crest. There was one system only, and his failure to provide defences in depth cost him dear. Against the 74th Division's front the nature of the country was equally difficult.
It heard many divergent opinions as to what the Column was going to do; some contending that it was waiting to be re-inforced by the "Sixth Division"; more dictating with fiery rancour that it was for the "Seventh Division" the Column waited; another insisting that the "Seventh Division" was operating a thousand miles away and all of us knowing about as much of the Sixth or Seventh Division's movements as Plato did of ping-pong!
The feelings of the two commanders-in-chief, at this pregnant instant, were singularly in contradiction to each other. The Comte de Vervillin saw that the rear division of his force, under the Comte-Amiral le Vicomte des Prez, was in the very position he desired it to be, having obtained the advantage of the wind by the English division's coming down, and by keeping its own luff.
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