... be carried out in the follow- ing manner. The first rank with bayonets fixed were to advance till fired on and then, Iving dowvn, to pour a Ihieavy fire on the Boers while the Elgi- neers au(l the second line made a trench. The plan was entirely successful ...

... Meanwhile the cavalry had been under heavy shell fire. General French's force included the Australian Horse and the New South Wales Lancers under Captain Cox, the Colonials being brigaded with the 6th Dragoon Guards, Scots Greys, and Inniskillings under Colonel ...

... so. Until one has realized something of the effect of fire, he is not in any sense overawed by it, and even then he is apt to magnify the lesser danger and ignore the greater. The Boer artillery fire was, with us, never at any time terrific. It brought ...

... century it was used as a dve for silk, wool, and leather without its explosive qualities being suspected. About 1889, however, a fire occurred at a chemical works in Manchester and spread to a shed containing this acid. Being melted by the heat, the acid flowed ...

... score of them jumped into the water and attempted to escape. They were fired on by the officers, but four only were caught, and they were put in irons. Almost simultaneously a fire was discovered in the hold, the fuel having been carefully laid and dreniched ...

... will look longest at two. At this, the Eagle of the 1st Regiment of the Grenadiers of the -Old Guard. It is the Eagle the Emperor embraced when he bade his Guard good-bye in that historic Horseshoe Court at Fontainebleau. And at this other-the little tinl ...

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... to-day. His Excel- lency wvas met by Lord Roberts at the railway station, where a guard of honour of the uincolnshire Regiment was drawn up. A salute of guns was fired. Sir A. Miiler has been assigned a house near headquarters.- teu!ep's Special Scrvi(c ...

... to ilo've out of your tamnbo at a late hotir of night, for oii th~e least suspicious Si inove a rounid of blaiik would be fired at you. It was at the gate when fuel was being issued that TuIE GROSS MISMANAGEMENT or THE BOER OFFICIAL ki slhowed itself ...

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... musketry (firediscipline, long-range firing, and collective firing). Volunteers and yeomanry should be under military law when out for their annual training; they could both, as a rule, perform their class-firing on their home ranges, but their camps ...