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Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1895. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature.Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes...

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The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 was important for many reasons, even though it has been regarded as something of a side-show by many military historians. It was the first conflict in northern Europe since the Napoleonic era, and the French belief that they still had the elan and verve of the Old Guard was shattered by German needle rifles and long range guns. Aerial warfare had its genesis in the balloons of Paris, yet the belief in Vauban ...

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Excerpt from Battles of the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 6: The Boer War of 1899-1900, Down to the Occupation of PretoriaThe alliance of the Orange Free State with the Transvaal made it necessary to include a march across the Orange River in the plan of operations. An advance on this side would give the main British army three lines of rail way for bringing up supplies and reinforcements, and would open a way into the Transvaal on which there were...

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Excerpt from War Correspondence as a Fine Art When the congregation knelt for the last prayer Serene knelt with them, but did not rise again. She did not respond even when her com panion touched her on the shoulder before turn ing to go. She Could not lift her face just then, full as it was of that strange rapture which came of the sudden clear realization that her life was the tool in the hands of the Infinite by which her soul was shaped. L...

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Excerpt from Souvenirs of Some Continents [t was in the early summer of '77. A month had passed since I had seen that (want-courier of active hostilities, Schahofskoy's advance-guard Cossack, ride his shambling pony up the main street of Galatz, and pushing on through the swamp-land beyond, annex the bridge of Babosch at the point of that long lance of his. Ever Since that afternoon the main tide of the Russian march on the Danube had been st...

Excerpt from Memories and Studies of War and Peace Here you and I are, said Skobelefi' with a laugh, like' Uriah the Hittite, right in the forefront of the battle, and how strange it is that quiet. Stay-at-home folk all over the' world, who take their morning papers just as they do their breakfasts, know ever so much more about this war as a whole than we fellows do, who are actually listening to the whistle of the bullets and the crash of th...

Excerpt from William of Germany: A Succinct Biography of William I., German Emperor and King of Prussia By the death of Kaiser William, the successorship to the royal and imperial thrones of Prussia and Germany falls to his eldest son, so long known as the crown-prince or Um ser Fritz, who ascends the throne as Frederic III. His consort, the new Empress, Princess Royal of England, the favorite daughter of the late Prince Consort, is a woman o...

Excerpt from Czar and Sultan: The Adventures of a British Lad in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 Y name is John Carnegie, I am in my thirty-third year, and, thank God, I do not know what sickness means, ex cept for an occasional touch of Danube. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forg...

Excerpt from The Afghan Wars: 1839-42 and 1878-80 Since it was the British complications with Persia which mainly furnished what pretext there was for the invasion of Afghanistan by an anglo-indian army in 1839, some brief recital is necessary of the relations between Great Britain and Persia prior to that aggression. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenboo...

Excerpt from Havelock There are two occasions on which a man, reserved by nature and training, is apt to disclose himself without restraint, in confidential communication with his closest and most trusted friend, and on his deathbed face to face with eternity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important histori...

Excerpt from Colin Campbell Lord ClydeYet even in the British military service the aphorism occasionally holds good, that everything comes to him who knows how to wait. Colin Campbell, the half-pay colonel of 1854, was a full general in 1858 and a peer of the realm in the same year in 1862 he was gazetteda field-marshal. In less than nine years the half-pay colonel had attained the highest rank in the service, - a promotion of unique rapidity ...