Around the World with Uncle Sam: Or, Six Years in the United States ArmyCommercial Printing Company, 1907 - 232 Seiten |
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American ammunition army arrived artillery attack band barracks battalion beautiful became began bicycle race boat boys bridge brigade built bunks called camp Caney captain captured carried cavalry chasing bands China Chinamen Chinese clothing cocoanut commanding comrades crossed Cuba Cubans deck detachment distance drill duty El Caney feet Filipinos fire forbidden city garrison ground guard guard mount guns hardtack headquarters hill hospital hundred Infantry insurrectos intrenchments island Japanese land large number legations lieutenant looking Luzon Majayjay Manila Manila Bay marched miles morning mountain mules natives night officers ordered Pasig river passed Peiho river Peking Philippines placed Port Tampa quarters railroad rations received regiment retreated returned river road San Miguel bay Santiago secured sergeant shore side sight soldiers soon Spaniards Spanish street tents thousands Tientsin town transport trees troops vessel village wagon trains wall wounded
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Seite 168 - Mr. Captain, stop the ship, I want to get out and walk, I feel so flipperty, flopperty flip,
Seite 4 - my own, my native land ! Whose heart has ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand? If such there breathe, go mark him well ; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name; Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, Despite those titles, power and pelf The wretch concentred all in self; Living shall forfeit fair renown, And doubly dying shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored and unsung....
Seite 1 - CONTINENT, SAILING ACROSS THE PACIFIC, IN THE PHILIPPINES, A YEAR IN CHINA DURING BOXER TROUBLE, THROUGH THE SUEZ CANAL,
Seite 21 - I found that the best thing for me to do was to
Seite 97 - on one side of the river and the Americans on the other.
Seite 189 - When hope lies dead within the heart, By secret sorrow close concealed, We shrink lest looks or words impart What must not be revealed. Tis hard to smile when one would weep ; To speak when one would silent be; To wake when one should wish to sleep, And wake to agony. Yet such the lot by thousands cast, Who wander in this world of care, And bend beneath the bitter blast To save them from despair. But nature waits her guests to greet, Where disappointments