... twenty years of age, enlisted as a trooper in Lord Lovatt's Corns of Highland Scouts in February, 1900, and proceeded to South Africa. He was much injured by his horse falling on him in July while scouting for General Rundle, in company with other six Scouts ...

... as in the case of the Roman operations in Africa 1880 years ago, to the combined movements of flying columns in a region delimited by blockhouses. Nothing has been so impressive in this latter stage of the war as the quiet persistence with which Lord Kitchener ...

... having been swollen by the honours dis tributed in connection with the Prince of Wales's colonial tour and by the war in South Africa. Deep sympathy has been expressed for Mr. St. John Brodrick on account of the accident that befell his daughter last ...

... Egmont-op-Zee in 1799, in the Peninsular War, at Corunna, and Orthes. It suffered severely at Waterloo and spent a year in Canada, 1838-9. It distinguished itself in the Indian Mutiny, took part in the Transvaal War of 1881, and was in Rhodesia in 1896 THE ...

... than (since the Romans, while they knew the most of Europe, with much of Asia and a little of Africa, recked nothing of America, nothing of West and South Africa, nothing of Australia) exists in any his tory which is ours to read. But despite all that despite ...

... sent to South Africa. Shortly after his return to Canada he was appointed to the command of the Manitoba and North-West Rifles, and was entrusted with the organis ing of that force. Canada has sent three contingents to the seat of war (1) a regiment ...

... poisoning a generation as he has hitherto been scandalously and crimi nally indifferent to them. In the ever- present war or rather the little war, the guerilla, which we are content to call by a bigger name than it deserves his simple, pastoral habits have ...

... perhaps, they will be oppressed or maltreated by military adventurers at the head of the State to which they belong, or a civil war will arise in which they desire to take no share. What is to pre vent them from declaring their independence and calling in ...

... corps of the north of England. numbering, as it does at the present time, 800 members. When difficulties occurred in South Africa, he at once offered a Battery, which was accepted by the Government, and under the title of the Elswick Battery, did splendid ...

... election without a civil war are unfit to occupy the earth's surface. Some of the more Southern American republics have at least got beyond that stage. Chili and Argentina are indeed arming, but they are not likely to go to war just at the present moment ...

... have been built up in a haphazard fashion. Thus we have Somerset House in the Strand, the Record Office in Chancery Lane, the War Office in Pall Mall, while a dozen other offices are bunched together as if by accident in Whitehall. On the west side leaving ...

... finishing the war. People, seemingly, cannot understand how these Boers can reconcile it with their conscience to light against their own people. 1 1 must be borne in mind that from the very commencement, as far as the colonies of South Africa are concerned ...