The Story of the Guides

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Excerpt from The Story of the Guides Martinets Of the Old school gravely Shook their heads, and trembled for the discipline of men without stocks and overalls. Men Of the Irregular Cavalry, almost as much trussed and padded as their Regular comrades (who were Often SO tightly clad as to be unable to mount without assistance), looked with good-natured tolerance on a fore doomed failure. But Sir Henry Lawrence had the courage Of his Opinions, and determined to put his theories to practice, though at first on a small scale. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.