10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BUSHFIGHTING»
Discover the use of
bushfighting in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
bushfighting and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
With Zeal and With Bayonets Only: The British Army on ...
33 The letters of light company officer Captain William Dansey give the
impression that he had full confidence in his men's ability to best the rebels in
bushfighting, he having written "that a day's Yankee hunting is no more minded
than a day's ...
... andgazed idly out ofthe window, pouting and displeased;Mrs.Gibson,
meanwhile,counting herstitches aloud with great distinctness and vigour.
CHAPTER XXIX. BUSHFIGHTING. During all the months that had elapsed since
Mrs. Hamley's.
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, 2014
3
The United service magazine
The rebels maintained the attack upwards of five hours, but without wounding
one of the little garrison, and possibly they themselves received as little damage,
bullets in bushfighting rarely reaching the billet they are intended for and
generally ...
Arthur William Alsager Pollock, 1869
4
Political and military episodes in the latter half of the ...
On the 7th they made a gallant resistance, and their experience in bushfighting
stood them in good stead ; they were, however, overpowered and dispersed,
leaving their commander and many other officers, with above 200 men, dead
upon ...
Edward Barrington De Fonblanque, 1876
5
Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal
The rebels maintained the attack upwards of five hours, but without wounding
one of the little garrison, and possibly they themselves received as little damage,
bullets in bushfighting rarely reaching the billet they are intended for and
generally ...
As far as the captain and the men behind him were concerned, the fire was
unaimed, and was chiefly directed at the Soudanese in front; but in bushfighting
the greater part of the shots go high, and often, as was in fact the case that day,
the ...
7
His Excellency: George Washington
sion than any group of British regulars, and they were to master the mobile tactics
of "bushfighting" with Indian-like proficiency. Within a year Washington believed
he had created just such an elite force, which, because it was constantly ...
Firstly, my entire bushfighting experience was onhelicopters, which seemed to
me to be so much more worthwhile and exciting than the fixedwing activities I had
observedin thefield.Secondly, Flight Lieutenant Gordon Wright (right) was the ...
P. J. H. Petter-Bowyer, 2003
9
The English Catalogue of Books ...
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Novel, 3 vols, post 8vo, 31s 6d Bentley Oct. — — — (W. D. S.) Lonely Guiding
Star, and other Poems, 12mo, 5s Low ..May Alford (Henry) Life, Journal, and
Letters ...
10
Tough Yarns: A Series of Naval Tales and Sketches to Please ...
... once more shoved off from the beach; and, notwithstanding the old gemman
boasted highly of his prowess, he swore it should be a long day before he'd trust
his precious limbs out of the ship again, to go bushfighting like a land privateer.
