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BARRACKS
BIVOUACS AND BATTLES
BY
ARCHIBALD FORBES, LL.D.
London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND NEW YORK
1891
All rights reserved
All the pieces in this little volume are reprints.I have to express my obligations to the proprietorsand editors of the periodicals to which they wereoriginally contributed, for the permission to reproducethem.
A. F.
| PAGE | |
| How “The Crayture” got on the Strength | 1 |
| The fate of “Nana Sahib’s Englishman” | 31 |
| The Old Sergeant | 56 |
| The Gentleman Private of the “Skilamalinks” | 72 |
| Jellypod; alias The Muleteer | 89 |
| The Double Coup de Grâce | 112 |
| Bill Beresford and his Victoria Cross | 129 |
| La Belle Hélène of Alexinatz | 151 |
| An Outpost Adventure | 175 |
| The Divine Figure from the North | 190 |
| A Yarn of the “President” Frigate | 206 |
| Fire-Discipline | 218 |
| A Christmas Dinner de Profundis | 242 |
| Absit Omen! | 251 |
| A Forgotten Rebellion | 291 |
| My Campaign in Pall Mall | 307 |
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