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Identifier: cu31924028018574 (find matches)
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
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rines and blue-jackets played in the actualaction, it was an important one. The marineswere with Grahams brigade on the right and in thefront line of the attack, and suffered terribly. Twoofficers and three men were killed, and fifty-fourofficers and men wounded. This loss was greaterthan that of any other battalion engaged with theexception of two both belonging to the High-land Brigade, on which the brunt of the fightinghad fallen. The blue-jackets, with six Gatling guns,were on the left of the attack with the Indiancontingent, and escaped without casualties. Aseaman contingent also did useful service in themanning of an improvised armoured train fitted witha 50-pounder gun, which operated from the railwaythat flanked the left of the attack. Tel-el-Kebirfinished the campaign, and on 17th September theNaval Brigade returned to Ismailia and rejoinedtheir ships. When the Mahdist occupation of the Soudanagain entailed British intervention in the affairs H,M. FIRST-CLASS CRUISER BLENHEIM
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NAVY OF STEAM AND STEEL 271 of Egypt, the Royal Navy, throughout 1884-5,figured prominently in the expeditionary forcesthat operated around Suakim, and that followed theNile route to Khartoum too late, alas! to saveGordon from his martyrs death. Naval Brigadesand marine battalions of considerable strengthshared in the heavy fighting around Suakim in1884. At El-Teb, 29th February 1884, the Navywas represented by a brigade of 13 officers and150 seamen with six machine guns, and a battaUonof 400 marines. It was in this action that CaptainA. K. Wilson (now Admiral of the Fleet Sir A. K.Wilson, V.C.) won his Victoria Cross, and, in generalorders after the action. Sir Gerald Graham, aftercomphmenting the brigade on their cheerful en-durance when suffering from heat and scarcity ofwater, their ready gallantry and steadiness under fire,added : The Naval Brigade contributed materi-ally to the success of the action, and the generalofficer commanding cannot too highly express histhanks for their

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