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mike snook 2
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Andrew,
Yes, extraordinary as it may seem, somehow I have managed to cram all those blunders into one [admittedly thick] volume.
Chapter Headings are:
Prologue (Isandlwana based)
1. The Victorian Army in an Age of Transition.
2. Wounded and Left on Afghanistan's Plains.
3. Floreat Etona
4. Hill of Doves
5. White Pashas
6. Desert Column
7. Sold by a Damned Gunner.
8. That Complete Shambles.
9. School of Hard Knocks.
Covered in detail: Maiwand, Bronkhorstspruit, Laing's Nek, Ingogo, Majuba, Hicks Pasha, Val Baker (1st El Teb), Abu Klea, Abu Kru, Wilson & Beresford on the Nile, Colenso, Spion Kop.
In passing: Magersfontein, Modder River, Kabul Residency, Jameson Raid, Siege of Khartoum, El Obeid, too many Egyptian defeats in the Sudan to immediately recall, Alexandria and Tel-el-Kebir, Stormberg, Talana, Elandslaagte bla bla bla.
Cast of characters: Wolseley, Roberts, Duke of Cambridge, Buller, White, Metheun, Warren, Colley, Cavagnari, Fred Burnaby, Herbert Stewart, JDH Stewart, Anstruther, Burrows, Charlie Beresford, Churchill, Gandhi, Kruger, Joubert, Cronje, Botha, Clery, Wauchope, Lyttelton, Woodgate, Hicks, Val Baker, Kitchener, Gordon, the Kaiser, The Mahdi, the Khalifa, Nicholaas Smit, Butler, Count Gleichen, 'The Swell of the Ocean', Arabi Pasha, Jameson, Rhodes, Charlie Pope, Charlie Parsons, Cromer, Gladstone, Lansdowne, Hartington.... and many many more!! Not bad eh?
Also quite a lot of stuff on organization, systemic failings of and reform of the Victorian Army.
All set then to knock J.K. Rowling and Harry for six...........!! After all if people are prepared to read about wizards, how could they not want to read out this?
Regards
Mike
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A,
I fear you confuse your El Tebs, old chap. You mean Second El Teb, whereas it is First El Teb which appears in the book. Rather confusingly, there was an earlier engagement in roughly the same area. Which I guess means that, when it comes down to it, what we call 1st El Teb is really 2nd El Teb, and 2nd El Teb is really 3rd El Teb. 'Confusing isn't it, Dutchy?'
But putting that aside...
1st El Teb is the Valentine Baker disaster. Interesting saga. Baker of course is commandant of police in Egypt, (still in disgrace at home after the ahem.... 'incident'.... in the railway carriage) and in the aftermath of Hicks Pasha's misfortune in Kordofan, gets sent with his scratch gendarmerie battalions to take care of the Suakin area on the Red Sea Coast where the Hadendawa under Osman Digna are playing up. He is accompanied by his friend Colonel Fred Burnaby of the Blues, who is one of my favourite Victorian personalities.....and the rest as they say is history. Read all about it...but sad to say 'the bloody provost' don't get a look in on this occasion.
Regards as ever
Mike
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