James Grant

One of the Six Hundred (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Excerpt: "Regimental Orders.-Head-quarters, Maidstone, December 31st. "As the regiment is to be held in readiness for foreign service in spring, captains of troops will report to Lieutenant and Adjutant Studhome, for the information of the commanding officer, on the state of the saddlery, the holsters and lance-buckets; and the horses must be all re-shod under the immediate inspection of the veterinary surgeon and Farrier-Sergeant Snaffles. Leave of absence to the 31st proximo is granted to Lieutenant Newton Calderwood Norcliff, in consequence of his urgent private affairs. "Hah! this is what most concerns me," I exclaimed, as I read the foregoing, and then handed the order-book, a squat vellum-bound quarto, to the orderly-serjeant who was in waiting. "Any idea of where we are likely to go, sir?" he asked. "The East, of course.""

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OTB eBook publishing
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783985312481
• Artikelnr.: 62363688