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  1. 6. Mai 2024 · An 1885 cartoon for American magazine Puck shows Lieutenant-General Garnet Wolseley, author of the memorandum against the Channel Tunnel, fleeing an invading French rooster on a British lion ...

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  2. 2. Mai 2024 · On 4 February that year, following Asante efforts to protect the fort of Elmina over which they had a long-held claim, British forces under the command of Major-General Sir Garnet Wolseley launched a so-called punitive raid on the Asante state capital, Kumasi.

  3. Vor 6 Tagen · Garnet Wolseley. Blog. Forrest. The officer of regular troops intrusted with the duty of quickly raising levies for immediate war service is often too prone to think that his one great endeavor should be to “set them up” and so instruct them in drill as to make them look as much 1ike regulars as possible.

  4. 14. Mai 2024 · Of the Southerners, Garnet Wolseley wrote this, ”I can recognise the chivalrous valour of those gallant men who fought not only for fatherland and in defence of home but for those rights most prized by free men” And he went on, ” The history of both armies abounds in gallant and chivalrous deeds done by men who fought for their respective convictions and from a sincere love of country.

  5. Vor 2 Tagen · During the retreat back across the desert via Jakdul (the expedition had reached Khartoum too late to save Gordon) Major French led a rearguard of thirteen men, again warding off Dervish attacks and impressing Redvers Buller and Sir Garnet Wolseley. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel on 7 February 1885.

  6. Vor 3 Tagen · He does this in the specific context of British India, using both contemporary opinion and modern commemoration to analyse three separate, but related, aspects of Irish involvement with the British Empire: the relationships between Irish and Indian nationalists; the appropriation of individual Irishmen as British imperial and Irish nationalist h...

  7. 15. Mai 2024 · On February 5, 1874, the Anglo-Saxon colonialist army led by Colonel Sir Garnet Wolseley, entered Kumasi in the evening with hordes of English, Scots, Welsh, Irish, West Indies, Hausas, Sierra...