BREVET-LIEUT.-COLONEL SPALDING, now appointed Lieutenant-Colonel in the artillery of the expeditionary force, was originally an officer of Marines, and we believe served on board H.M.S. Challenger in that ...
Article : 106 wordsMAHOMED ACHMET, the Mahdi, is a native of the province of Dongola, and his father was by trade a carpenter. As a boy he was apprenticed to his uncle, a boatbuilder, but having received a beating, ran ...
Article : 492 wordsOUR, readers will find on page seventeen of this issue an authentic map of the seat of war in the Soudan, and some of the surrounding country. By this the locale of the British forces on the Nile can be traced, and also ...
Article : 66 wordsAs the Selection Committee appointed, by the Government to purchase suitable.horses, for Artillery work in the Soudan made their purchases, they forwarded them, to the Agricultural Ground, Moore Park, where they ...
Article : 184 wordsTHE departure of the little army from our shores to the aid of the mother country is, perhaps, not a great deal in view of the tens of thousands she has under command; but is a very significant mark of the loyalty ...
Article : 1,208 wordsON the day prior to the departure of the troops, the whole of the artillery horses were shipped on board the transports, without a single hitch or accident of any kind. The Australasian took 200 on board, and the ...
Article : 80 wordsTHE year 1885 opens with the roll of drums, and people differ in opinion as to why drums should roll at all. Is there not plenty of wine, and gold, and corn upon the earth? Everybody says, "Yes, there never was so ...
Article : 2,215 wordsTHE command of the New South Wales forces which have just departed to the aid of England in the Soudan campaign has been well and wisely deputed to Colonel J. T. Richardson, who lias bad a prolonged and creditable ...
Article : 303 wordsMAJOR GEORGE J. AIREY, the second in command as regards the artillery of the New South Wales troops for the Soudan, like his immediate superior officer, was at one time an officer of marines, and indeed we believe ...
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Illustrated Sydney News (NSW : 1881 - 1894), Sat 14 Mar 1885, Page 11
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