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Identifier: battlesofninetee01forb (find matches)
Title: Battles of the nineteenth century
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Forbes, Archibald, 1838-1900 Atteridge, A. Hilliard (Andrew Hilliard)
Subjects: Battles Military history, Modern
Publisher: London New York : Cassell and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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, and somemountain guns, the task of this contingentbeing to turn Arabis right flank, which restedon the canal. KASSASSIN : TEL-EL-KEBIR. 20I Arabi and his men fondly believed that allthis British force was sleeping the sleep ofwearied soldiers at Kassassin and other pointsbetween that place and the Suez Canal. As amatter of fact, it was marshalling itself in line ofbattle array as above detailed on an elevationcalled Ninth Hill, about five and a half miles by the long and strenuous march, they were alleager to be led on to the fight without furtherdelay. Until the hour of starting, all the menstretched themselves on the sand to snatch whatbrief and hurried sleep they could. From pre-vious experience it was reckoned that the actualprogress over the desert, with its darkness
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CARRYING THEM WITH THE HAYONET (/>. 203). from Arabis lines, from which it remainedhidden by the impenetrable curtain of the night.Some of the regiments—notably the High-landers—had but a few hours before hurried upto the front from Ismailia*; yet, though wearied* For an account of many striking incidents of themarch, some of our readers may be glad to be referred tothe graphic narrative of Sergeant Arthur V. Palmer, ofthe 79th Highlanders, in the Nineteenth Century for March,1890, entitled A Battle. Described from the Ranks,and to the controversy to which it gave rise in ensuingnumbers of the same publication. and other difficulties, would be about onemile per hour—^just think of that!—so thatby starting at 1.30 a.m.. Sir Garnet calculatedto reach the enemys works just before the firstgleam of dawn—so nicely was everything plannedbeforehand. The long sojourn at Ninth Hill,wrote General Hamley, while waiting for themoment to advance was of a sombre kind : wesat in silence

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