A Month in the Camp Before SebastopolLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855 - 125 pages |
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... canvass , John Bull beats them hollow ! Such , at least , was the ethnological conviction - the more valu- able , as I never travelled in Arabia which - flashed across me on arriving at the Division . My traps had not come up ; I was an ...
... canvass , John Bull beats them hollow ! Such , at least , was the ethnological conviction - the more valu- able , as I never travelled in Arabia which - flashed across me on arriving at the Division . My traps had not come up ; I was an ...
Page 23
... Canvass forage - bags , cloaks , and waterproofs , spread around , hid the bare earth ; and on them re- clined , more antiquo , the General and his Staff . I alone enjoyed the dignity of a seat , viz . , a portmanteau . No such thing as ...
... Canvass forage - bags , cloaks , and waterproofs , spread around , hid the bare earth ; and on them re- clined , more antiquo , the General and his Staff . I alone enjoyed the dignity of a seat , viz . , a portmanteau . No such thing as ...
Page 26
... canvass tent - lining for bed- clothes , I made no doubt that I should pass the night comfortably ( N.B. Nobody undresses in camp , except for ablutionary purposes ) . My friend's servant engaged to find lodging for John . The only ...
... canvass tent - lining for bed- clothes , I made no doubt that I should pass the night comfortably ( N.B. Nobody undresses in camp , except for ablutionary purposes ) . My friend's servant engaged to find lodging for John . The only ...
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... canvass , and sud- denly become conscious , that you are on the Czar's land without leave . It takes a mo- ment or two to remember , that the perfect stillness is not solitude ; that the slumbering host around is encircled by hundreds ...
... canvass , and sud- denly become conscious , that you are on the Czar's land without leave . It takes a mo- ment or two to remember , that the perfect stillness is not solitude ; that the slumbering host around is encircled by hundreds ...
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... canvass , and when closed at both ends forms a distinct inner room . The protection it affords against cold , or heat , may be put down at six degrees Fahrenheit . Thus , though my tent is so much less tall than a bell - tent , that its ...
... canvass , and when closed at both ends forms a distinct inner room . The protection it affords against cold , or heat , may be put down at six degrees Fahrenheit . Thus , though my tent is so much less tall than a bell - tent , that its ...
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affair Agamemnon Aide-de-camps Allies Army arrival artillery Balaklava battle BATTLE OF BALAKLAVA believe bell-tent Bellerophon biscuit board ship bombardment brigade Britannia British brown canteen canvass Cape Constantine Captain carry centre cholera cloth commissariat Constantine cooked Cossacks course Crimea day in camp dinner distance Division consists Duke of Cambridge Edmund Lyons enemy enemy's engaged England fact feet field fight fire French front gabions gallant guns half half-past heard hill horses hour land LETTER Light Division LONGMAN looked Lord Raglan lying Malta men-of-war ment morning musketry night Officers Picket-house pickets poles poor fellows portion portmanteau Post 8vo price One Shilling regiments ridge round shot Round Tower Russians Scutari Sebastopol Second Division seen shell shore sick side Silistria sleep smoke soldiers soon Staff stretcher suppose tents thing three hundred yards tion tobacco told troops Turkish Turks valley Varna vessel whole wounded