It was employed entirely in Mashonaland, where its doings in the field drew unqualified praise fromColonials and Dutch alike.
Happily--and the Colonials here are beginning to realise it--these types are not the rule in the service, but the exception.
In the Olympic games proper, British athletes, including two wins by colonials from Canada and Africa, scored 25 successes, and the Americans 18.
There was much active loyalty on our side: thousands of colonials fought for the crown during the course of the war; in the central provinces at least half the population was for us.
In both wars our well-drilled troops constantly found their previous training useless or worse; in both we received loyal support from numerouscolonials on the spot.
It is true that these ardent Jingoes were but a small minority and that the right-minded elements among the English Colonials universally blamed the unwarranted attack that had been made against the independence of the Transvaal.
Both commanders were wounded; Dieskau was captured; the French lost about 300; and the colonials nearly the same (including those who fell earlier in the day).
Both the English and the English Colonials have the power to survive defeat.
The Colonials are incomparably keener Imperialists than we ourselves claim to be.
The answer is usually unfavourable, simply because many colonials cannot disassociate the idea of a gentleman adventurer from that of a scapegrace or ne'er-do-well.
On the other hand, incivility is much more rarely experienced among even the roughest colonials than it is in many parts of the old country, in Birmingham, for example.
Colonials will not touch their hats, or use any form that appears to remind them of servility, flunkeyism, or inequalities of station.
The great question that of late years has been continually asked of old colonials in England is, what are the prospects afforded by New Zealand to men of the middle classes?
Of course, there was much merriment among the colonials at our expense, but I think the greatest mirth was excited by our cases of revolvers.
Here was a tough proposition to tackle in the darkness, but these Colonials are practical above all else, and they went about it in a practical way.
My companion informed me that the poilu at the organ wore a uniform of horizon blue which marked him as casual to this village, whose French garrisons were Moroccans with the distinctive khaki worn by all French colonials in service.
At the same time, French colonials which had held a position throughout the day on the north bank on the edge of the town, withdrew in accordance with the same plan.
By 10:30 that night the completion of the movement was signalised by a terrific explosion, as the French colonials blew up one of the stone bridges over which they had withdrawn.
These paidColonials were used as attacking troops, as laborers on roads and as drivers of light trucks.
Colonials and other dependants might demand independence, and equal status in the family of nations.
British colonials in Asia and Africa after 1943 were less fortunate.
The widely advertised World Peace Council turned more and more from general advocacy of peace, such as the Stockholm Peace Petition, to the support of liberation movements among colonials and supressed minor nationalities.
And because to the colonials their destiny was not yet clear, amidst the futile hostilities of the next 20 years the work of improving Castillo de San Marcos went forward.
Within the safety of the thick walls were stored the arms that went to ranger, regular, and Indian ally alike for repeated use against the rebellious colonials to the north.
And a goodly number of those colonials and their friends languished in the damp prison of the castle.
And fine indeed were the gallants that did them homage; those young colonials of bright velvets and flowered waistcoats and lace ruffles and powdered periwigs.
The green bayberry candles grew dim, and in their fragrant smoke the old colonials faded away.
This was the last serious engagement in which the regular troops took part, and for the rest of the campaign, which terminated in 1869, the Colonials were engaged under the direction of Colonel (afterwards Sir George) Whitmore.
Privately, much discussion had already taken place in the interests of the Colonials who had fought on the Republican side, and an informal conversation now followed on this subject.
Colonials are also so harshly treated that they have not the chance or desire to rise.
As a wicket-keeper Carter worthily filled the place of Kelly, and the fielding of the Colonialsfully maintained the brilliant Australian standard of former years.
Duff saved the colonials by a great innings in the fifth test match; Trumper was less certain than formerly, and Clement Hill more reckless; whilst J.
On this tour for the first time colonialscontended on equal terms, one match v.
The Colonials are a hard race to manage and a greedy.
The colonials were already beginning to feel a pride in the fact of belonging to the new country, America, and therefore Gaine shrewdly changed the English title to one more likely to induce people to purchase.
The air was so full of the growing differences between the colonials and the king's government, that in seventeen hundred and seventy Mein closed out his stock and returned to England.
The hatred felt toward such colonials as were true to the king has until recently hardly subsided sufficiently to permit any sympathy with the hardships they suffered.
Cape colonials enlisted in the British ranks, and these acted as guides and scouts.
This gentleman also expressed great satisfaction at Sir Alfred Milner and Mr. Chamberlain being at the head of affairs, which he said was the only thing that gave the colonials confidence.
Colonel Maxse became the head of the police, and many Colonials who volunteered for civil employment were given posts of importance.
Some circumstances attending the brilliant resistance of the Colonials are almost heroic.
The Colonialslooked and saw, and came to their conclusion with rapidity: they were in a trap as close as Cronje's, a trap which must be kept open as long as possible.
The Colonials were fairly trapped, and surrender stared them in the face.
His career was typical of the careers of many of the gallant Colonials who rushed to the aid of their country.
The captain in command was wounded in several places, and the Colonials lost eight killed and eighteen wounded, three of whom since died.
Personally I loathe Colonials except at the Earl's Court Exhibition.
The Hau Haus were superior in numbers, but during the first few days the Colonials gained some trivial advantages, and on the fourth day began to sap up to the works, which they had surrounded.
Travel, by the colonials back and forth to England, and the arrival of ships ladened with merchandise of all sorts, kept the planters and their wives abreast of the changing modes in dress.
The colonials possessed a great deal more jewelry than might be imagined.
I have also other British Colonials and many nice foreign.
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