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... Colonies In India • Total · 71,000 39,780 29,200 139,980 men , with 120 field guns . There was no Reserve , the Volunteer Force did not exist , and there were only 82,852 Militia and 14,680 Yeomanry . Up to that time the object of all ...
... Colonies In India • Total · 71,000 39,780 29,200 139,980 men , with 120 field guns . There was no Reserve , the Volunteer Force did not exist , and there were only 82,852 Militia and 14,680 Yeomanry . Up to that time the object of all ...
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... Colonies were denuded of their commissariat , from the Mediterranean to the Pacific , from Canada to China ; every available officer was hurriedly summoned to join the Army in the East . The half - pay list was ransacked for its least ...
... Colonies were denuded of their commissariat , from the Mediterranean to the Pacific , from Canada to China ; every available officer was hurriedly summoned to join the Army in the East . The half - pay list was ransacked for its least ...
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... colonies - viz . , ' That whatever be the object of these colonies , the great bulk of material with which they deal consists not of efficient workmen out of work , but of tramps , ex - prisoners , and others whose distress is caused by ...
... colonies - viz . , ' That whatever be the object of these colonies , the great bulk of material with which they deal consists not of efficient workmen out of work , but of tramps , ex - prisoners , and others whose distress is caused by ...
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... Colonies was practically nil . Nor was its practical result of any great importance . The Australasian Colonies had contributed before 1900 a small sum annually to meet the cost of a special squadron tied down rather rigorously to duty ...
... Colonies was practically nil . Nor was its practical result of any great importance . The Australasian Colonies had contributed before 1900 a small sum annually to meet the cost of a special squadron tied down rather rigorously to duty ...
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... Colonies , ' that those who paid the piper called the tune , ' and that ' this was not the time after the exertion made in the war for us to call the Colonies to account . ' Such words were amazing enough at the time they were uttered ...
... Colonies , ' that those who paid the piper called the tune , ' and that ' this was not the time after the exertion made in the war for us to call the Colonies to account . ' Such words were amazing enough at the time they were uttered ...
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