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Title: The Royal Navy
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Swinburne, Henry Lawrence Wilkinson, Norman, 1878-1934 illus Jellicoe, John Rushworth Jellicoe, Earl, 1859-1935, illus
Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Navy Great Britain. Royal Navy
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ofarmour plating, and this moving fortress mountedone 40-pounder Armstrong, a Nordenfeldt, and abrace of Catlings. There were also working withthe train a small body of blue-jackets manning alittle field battery of two 9-pounders. The Britishtroops had by now, and unopposed, taken possessionof and fortified Ramleh, some six or seven milesfrom Alexandria and about the same distance fromArabis entrenched position at Kafrdowar, andwhen, on 5th August, General Alison made areconnaissance in force against Arabis position, itwas on the blue-jackets, who, with their armouredtrain, covered both the advance and the retirementof the troops, that the brunt of the fighting fell.In the sharp skirmish that took place the enemyshowed a bold front, but were completely routedwith heavy loss, the casualties amongst the blue-jackets amounting to two killed and twenty-fourwounded. When Sir Garnet Wolseley arrived fromEngland on 15th August, he decided to make A ROYAL ESCORTArrival of the King of Portugal
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:■ M NAVY OF STEAM AND STEEL 269 the advance against Arabi from Ismailia, and thebase of operations was shifted from Alexandria tothe Suez Canal. On the 19th, Captain Fairfax ofthe Monarchy with 500 seamen and marines,occupied Port Said, whilst Captain Fitzroy withhis men of the Orion on the following day occu-pied Ismailia. Meanwhile, Admiral Sir WilliamHewitt, V.C., with his flag-ship Euryalus^ and oneor two other of the ships under his command onthe East Indies Station, had occupied Suez. In allthe engagements that preceded the decisive actionof the campaign, Chalouf, Tel-el-Mahuta, and thetwo actions at Kassassin, blue-jackets and marineshad their share. By 12th September the wholeexpeditionary force was assembled at Kassassin,and at nightfall the force moved out on the eight-mile desert march which was to end with thestorming of Arabis entrenched position at Tel-el-Kebir at daybreak on the morning of the 13th. Itwas Lieutenant Rawson, naval aide-de-camp toSir Garnet Wolseley, w

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