Identifier: cassellshistoryo00gran (find matches)
Title: Cassell's history of the war in the Soudan
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Grant, James, 1822-1887
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Publisher: London Cassel
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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nAdye, K.C.B. The march past was inaugurated atfour in the afternoon, when a splendidbattery of the Royal Horse Artillery,led by Colonel G. W. Borrowdaile, C.B.(late of the Bombay army), went clatter-ing past, their wheels revolving as if allwere on one axle. These were the gunsthat struck terror on the Egyptians atMahsameh, that silenced their sevenKrupps, and opened the way for thecharge in the dark at Kassassin. To the old Scottish Jacobite air, Weel may the keel row,* the 2ndBrigade of Cavalry trotted past, andthen came the three squadrons of theLife Guards in sections of fours, led byDrury Lowe ; the 4th and 7th DragoonGuards, and lastly, the smartest regi-ment on the ground, the 13th Hussars. The Mounted Infantry followed, eachman with the butt of his rifle plantedon his right thigh, the weapon muzzleupward. They were all in their fight-ing kits, and about sixty in number. The Indian Cavalry, so picturesquein their costume and aj^pointments,came next,—the 2nd and Gth Bengal, I
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28 23 CASSELLS HISTORY OF THE WAR IN THE SOUDAN. the former wearing green faced with red,and the latter blue faced with red, andthe 13th Bengal Lancers, with red andblue swallow-tailed pennons fluttering,their turbans highly peaked, and theirwhole array equal in discipline to therest of our Cavalry, though their restiveArab horses at times could scarcely berestrained from breaking into a gallopor a canter. The Heavy Field Artillery broughtup the rear of this division, which,according to the Times, consisted alto-gether of 4,320 horses, with sixty piecesof cannon. The lively Scottish reels which thebands had been playing as trotting airsfor the Cavalry now changed time as theNaval Brigade under Captain Fitzroyand the men of Fishers Ironclad Traininder Commander Henderson came up,their steady tramp eliciting the firstcheer that had yet been accorded. To the air of The British Grena-diers, the Brigade of Guards (pre-ceded by the Royal Marine Artillery)came next, under the Duke of Con-nau

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