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Lumsden of the Guides: A Sketch of the Life of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Harry Burnett ... - Page 19
by Sir Peter Stark Lumsden, G. R. Elsmie - 1900 - 336 pages
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Lives of Indian Officers: Illustrative of the History of the Civil ..., Volume 3

Sir John William Kaye - 1869 - 412 pages
...Melvill, are men such as you will seldom find anywhere, but when collected under one administration were worth double and treble the number taken at hap-hazard....was a good man ; the most were excellent officers. My chief help, however, was in my brother John, without whom I should have had difficulty in carrying...
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Life of Sir Henry Lawrence, Volume 2

Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes, Herman Merivale - 1872 - 418 pages
...Melville, are men such as you will seldom see anywhere, but when collected under one administration were worth double and treble the number taken at haphazard....was a good man : the most were excellent officers. My chief help, however, was in my brother John, without whom I should have had difficulty in carrying...
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Soldiers of the Victorian Age: Sir Thomas Willshire. Sir George Cornish ...

Charles Rathbone Low - 1880 - 382 pages
...They are men such as you will seldom find anywhere, but when collected under one administration, were worth double and treble the number taken at hap-hazard. Each was a good man ; the most were good officers." And again, " I was very fortunate in having my assistants, all of whom were my friends,...
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Hodson of Hodson's horse

William Stephen Raikes Hodson - 1883 - 412 pages
...&cc., are such men as you will seldom see anywhere ; but when collected under one administration were worth double and treble the number taken at haphazard....was a good man. The most were excellent officers." The slight foundation of truth on which Mr. Smith has raised his fabric of calumny is this: — During...
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Memorials of the Life and Letters of Major-General Sir Herbert B ..., Volume 1

Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes - 1886 - 450 pages
...Melville are men such as you will seldom see anywhere, but, when collected under one administration, were worth double and treble the number taken at haphazard....was a good man ; the most were excellent officers." Of this band of young men, all whom Colonel Henry Lawrence personally attached to himself, and by whom...
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Memorials of the Life and Letters of Major-General Sir Herbert B ..., Volume 1

Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes - 1886 - 504 pages
...Melville are men such as you will seldom see anywhere, but, when collected under one administration, were worth double and treble the number taken at haphazard. Each was a good man j the most were excellent officers." Of this band of young men, all whom Colonel Henry Lawrence personally...
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Reynell Taylor, C.B., C.S.I.: A Biography

Ernest Gambier-Parry - 1888 - 428 pages
...Melvill are men such as you will seldom see anywhere, but when collected under one administration were worth double and treble the number taken at haphazard....was a good man ; the most were excellent officers. My chief help, however, was in my brother John.' l At the close of the first Sikh war Henry Lawrence...
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Gossip of the Century: Personal and Traditional Memories--social ..., Volume 1

Mrs. Wm. Pitt Byrne - 1892 - 530 pages
...they are men such as you will seldom see anywhere ; but, collected under one administration, they were worth double and treble the number, taken at haphazard. Each was a good man and an excellent officer." Henry Lawrence's original Punjaxib staff consisted of "James Abbott, John...
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