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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...then, that we are in difficulties whenever we enter upon such a trifling business as the Egyptian campaign of 1882? It arises from the prevalence of a belief that England is effaced from the list of Great European Powers, and has no need to be prepared for war. The result is as simple as shameful. The men are present with their arms--this is all that the public asks; but everything else is absent, or present in such small proportion as to leave the army practically useless for the field. We want organization, proper distribution, and preparation. There is a true story told of a man whose wife had fallen into a stream which would carry her over a cataract. She was caught by a friendly rock, and might be rescued. Her husband rushed to a boat which was near, launched it on the swift waters, sprang in, and then found that there were no oars. Such would be the position of England if she were called upon to mobilise an army in time of great danger. We have a costly boat on which we spend immense sums of money annually for repairs, but in time of trial it would be found that there were no oars. To carry this illustration a little farther, we must suppose that the proprietor of the estate is anxious that the boat should always be ready to save life, and the boatmen are constantly asking the steward for oars, but he replies that he has no money for them, and meanwhile the proprietor is being adjured to buy a bigger boat instead of supplying oars for the small one. The expedition to Egypt two years ago was on a small scale compared with what might be required, and could easily be provided so far as men are concerned. Yet we have lately heard from the witnesses before the Committee of Investigation that the arrangements for transport were so bad that the force could n...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781232187004
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 406
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1232187003
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 721 gr


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