The Life of Major-General WauchopeHodder & Stoughton, 1905 - 350 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
A. G. WAUCHOPE advance advanced-guard Andy army arrived Ashanti attack August AURANIA battalion battle Black Watch boat Boers British Cairo Cambo camp campaign Cape Coast Castle Captain character characteristic Colour-Sergeant column command Coomassie course DEAR duty Edinburgh Egyptian El Teb enemy enemy's Expedition feeling fighting fire force friends front ground guns hand heart Highland Brigade Highland Light Infantry honour hope hour Infantry interest Khartoum kind knew labour later letter Lord Methuen Magersfontein Malta Mid-Lothian miles military mind Modder River native nature never Niddrie night November occasion officers once Orange River position present proceeded realised received recognised regiment remembered Seaforths sergeant served ship side Sir Archibald Alison Sir Garnet Wolseley soldier things tion took troops village Wauchope's whilst words Worksop wounded writes Yetholm
Popular passages
Page 84 - Without stop or stay the 42d rushed on cheering, their pipes playing, their officers to the front ; ambuscade after ambuscade was successfully carried, village after village won in succession, till the whole Ashantis broke and fled in the wildest disorder down the pathway on their front to Coomassie.
Page 206 - He ought, therefore, never to let his thoughts stray from the exercise of war; and in peace he ought to practise it more than in war, which he can do in two ways: by action and by study. As to action, he must, besides keeping his men well disciplined and exercised, engage continually in hunting, and thus accustom his body to hardships; and meanwhile learn the nature of the land, how steep the mountains are, how the valleys debouch, where the plains lie, and...
Page 176 - I shall want you to show that you can work hard as well as fight. If there is any fighting to be done, I know that I have only to call on the Black Watch, and you will behave as you have always done.
Page 164 - ... in Dongola, Mahomet Achmet, the Nubian carpenter's son, had gradually succeeded in uniting the long separated nations of the Middle Nile into one powerful confederation, whose objects were the expulsion of the Turk and the cleansing of the creed of Islam from the corruptions of Ottoman ascendency. To his friends he was a genius, a guide, a Mahdi ; to his enemies an impostor, a villain, a fanatic ; to history he will be a man who proved his possession of great genius by the creation of empire...
Page 167 - The front and left of the square were covered by a squadron of the loth Hussars, the right by a troop of the 19th Hussars, the remainder of the cavalry being in rear.
Page 340 - ... 1 Of the conduct of the troops the author of The ' Times ' History of the War writes as follows : — ' Few accounts yet published have done sufficient justice either to the splendid courage with which the unshaken portions of the brigade sought to retrieve the initial disaster, or to the endurance of the rallied men who hung on practically unsupported for eight or nine hours in front of the trenches.
Page 166 - February 2Qth the march was resumed from Fort Baker. The formation adopted in the advance was that of a rectangle, having an interior space of about 500 by 150 yards. The Black Watch advanced in line, and when halted formed the rear face of the figure — being drawn up 25 yards to the rear of its right and left faces. The intervals left at the angles were designed to be filled by the guns and Gatlings which accompanied the force.
Page 225 - For the following anecdote I am indebted to the Reverend George Dodds of Liberton. In the midst of one very stormy meeting, when the uproar seemed to have got altogether beyond control, the audience was surprised to see a smart-looking working-man step on to the platform beside the Colonel. A momentary hush ensued, of which the intruder took advantage to speak somewhat as follows : ' I dinna ken vera much aboot politics. But I was wounded at the battle of Tel-el-Kebir, and a man came up to me and...
Page 84 - without stop or stay the 42nd rushed on cheering, their pipes playing, their officers to the front ; ambuscade after ambuscade was carried, village after village won in succession till the whole Ashantis broke and fled in the wildest disorder down the pathway on their front to Kumasi.
Page 257 - While we pour sailors go skipping to the tops, And the land lubbers lie down below, below, below, And the land lubbers lie down below. Then up spake the captain of our gallant ship, And a well.spoken man was he; "I have married a wife in Salem town, And to.night she a widow will be.