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Even the few wasters and ne'er - dowells caught the magic of it , and became for a season at least heroic and dependable . They knew that the enemy outnumbered them by a hundred to one , but they made nothing of it .
Even the few wasters and ne'er - dowells caught the magic of it , and became for a season at least heroic and dependable . They knew that the enemy outnumbered them by a hundred to one , but they made nothing of it .
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Food became scarce then , when Burnham with four others , scouting well ahead of the column , sighted a herd of about five hundred cattle being driven under guard of about two hundred and fifty Matabele , they decided to try to capture ...
Food became scarce then , when Burnham with four others , scouting well ahead of the column , sighted a herd of about five hundred cattle being driven under guard of about two hundred and fifty Matabele , they decided to try to capture ...
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Then I began to wonder how men could build a bridge which at a guess was three hundred yards long , when the nearest terrestrial support was seven hundred feet below . I personally could not attempt the job , even had I the know - how ...
Then I began to wonder how men could build a bridge which at a guess was three hundred yards long , when the nearest terrestrial support was seven hundred feet below . I personally could not attempt the job , even had I the know - how ...
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Contents
THE DUEL OF THE FRIGATES BY VICTOR ALLAN | 42 |
A LITTLE SOMETHING BY GORDON MEYER | 137 |
A MILITARY APPRECIATION OF BRITISH INDUSTRY BY BRIGADIER | 157 |
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| Title | Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 292 Blackwood's Magazine |
| Publisher | William Blackwood, 1962 |
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