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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539652" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Battle of Tel-el-Kebir</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye sons of Great Britain, come join with me,<br>And sing in praise of Sir Garnet Wolseley;<br>Sound drums and trumpets cheerfully,<br>For he has acted most heroically. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Therefore loudly his praises sing<br>Until the hills their echoes back doth ring;<br>For he is a noble hero bold,<br>And an honour to his Queen and country, be it told. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He has gained for himself fame and renown,<br>Which to posterity will be handed down;<br>Because he has defeated Arabi by land and by sea,<br>And from the battle of Tel-el-Kebir he made him to flee. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With an army about fourteen thousand strong,<br>Through Egypt he did fearlessly march along,<br>With the gallant and brave Highland brigade,<br>To whom honour is due, be it said. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Arabi's army was about seventy thousand in all,<br>And, virtually speaking, it wasn't very small;<br>But if they had been as numerous again,<br>The Irish and Highland brigades would have beaten them, it is plain. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas on the 13th day of September, in the year of 1882,<br>Which Arabi and his rebel horde long will rue;<br>Because Sir Garnet Wolseley and his brave little band<br>Fought and conquered them on Kebir land. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He marched upon the enemy with his gallant band<br>O'er the wild and lonely desert sand,<br>And attacked them before daylight,<br>And in twenty minutes he put them to flight. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The first shock of the attack was borne by the Second Brigade,<br>Who behaved most manfully, it is said,<br>Under the command of brave General Grahame,<br>And have gained a lasting honour to their name. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Major Hart and the 18th Royal Irish, conjoint,<br>Carried the trenches at the bayonet point;<br>Then the Marines chased them about four miles away,<br>At the charge of the bayonet, without dismay! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">General Sir Archibald Alison led on the Highland Brigade,<br>Who never were the least afraid.<br>And such has been the case in this Egyptian war,<br>For at the charge of the bayonet they ran from them afar! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With their bagpipes playing, and one ringing cheer,<br>And the 42nd soon did the trenches clear;<br>Then hand to hand they did engage,<br>And fought like tigers in a cage. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! it must have been a glorious sight<br>To see Sir Garnet Wolseley in the thickest of the fight!<br>In the midst of shot and shell, and the cannons roar,<br>Whilst the dead and the dying lay weltering in their gore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the Egyptians were forced to yield,<br>And the British were left masters of the field;<br>Then Arabi he did fret and frown<br>To see his army thus cut down. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Arabi the rebel took to flight,<br>And spurred his Arab steed with all his might:<br>With his heart full of despair and woe,<br>And never halted till he reached Cairo. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now since the Egyptian war is at an end,<br>Let us thank God! Who did send<br>Sir Garnet Wolseley to crush and kill<br>Arabi and his rebel army at Kebir hill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Topaz+McGonagall">William Topaz McGonagall</a><div class=q>
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And sing in praise of Sir Garnet Wolseley;
Sound drums and trumpets cheerfully,
For he has acted most heroically. 

Therefore loudly his praises sing
Until the hills their echoes back doth ring;
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