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Dan to Beersheba - Work and Travel in four Continents

1908

The reason for the disappearance of the place or district name is probably found in the fact that the head of the family in the third generation from the first Humphrey married the heiress of a big estate on Loch Lomond and went to I've there at Luss which became the centre of the family possessions. [...] At the time when all Britain was shaking wit li fear of invasion from Roney" he raised a troop of regulars for home service called in the fashion of the day " Fencibles." One of his grandsons afterwards carried on the tea business in Glasgow which was the source of the family fortunes under the name of Semple and Co. [...] The two sons of Hugh and Elizabeth Colquhoun were -amed Archibald and Hugh and the former entered the army in 1796 at the age of sixteen or seventeen was catain in the 4oth Foot from 1805 to 1813 and saw a good deal of service in South America and the Peninsula. [...] It gives some idea of the odds against which he and other young officers of similar standing had to contend to read that the enemy's force in the battle of the Helmund consisted of six divisions of i 000 each with a mollah at the head of each and standards bearing the inscription : We have been trusting in God may He guide and guard us ! " The British opposing troops consisted of five detachmer [...] Wade brought the remainder of the Army of the Indus through the Khyber despite the stomach-ache with which the Sikhs greeted the ic.ea of that dreaded Pass and all went well on the surface.
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Pages
363
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.147023
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
v-xviii Archibald R. Colquhoun view
Chapter I My Father goes to India
1-16 Archibald R. Colquhoun view
Chapter II My Father goes to Kandahar and Kabul
17-44 Archibald R. Colquhoun view
Chapter III My Mother goes “ Home ”
45-67 Archibald R. Colquhoun view
Chapter IV My Boyhood
68-87 Archibald R. Colquhoun view
Chapter V I go to India
88-98 Archibald R. Colquhoun view
Chapter VI In Lower Burma
99-115 Archibald R. Colquhoun view
Chapter VII A Mission to Siam
116-133 Archibald R. Colquhoun view
Chapter VIII I Explore Southern China
134-164 Archibald R. Colquhoun view
Chapter IX The Far East in Peace and War
165-193 Archibald R. Colquhoun view
Chapter X A Campaign at Home
194-217 Archibald R. Colquhoun view
Chapter XI In Upper Burma
218-247 Archibald R. Colquhoun view
Chapter XII South Africa and Rhodes
248-271 Archibald R. Colquhoun view
Chapter XIII Mashonaland and Groot Schuur
272-295 Archibald R. Colquhoun view
Chapter XIV A Visit to the United States
296-319 Archibald R. Colquhoun view
Chapter XV In Central America
320-342 Archibald R. Colquhoun view
Index
343-348 Archibald R. Colquhoun view

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