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In view of the fact that the 250th an niversary of the foundation of the Royal Dragons has just been observed, a writer in the Cavalry Journal" gives some interesting details of the early history of this famʊas esvarly regiment of the line.
When Chazlea married the Portuguese
were wrought by English soldiers finally abandoned." The improved systems introduced among the Mors by European renegaders made it now onceN«Kry to employ at Tangier much stronger grison then: hitherto, the question was brought before Parliament, but no grant of money being voted, it was decided by the Government to destroy the works and withdraw the troops.
Tangier was fated not to become the steppingstone to an African, as Bombay
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THE accommodation on this Train boing requested to assist the management by booking seats in advance which may
TH strictly limited the Public are again
hought as her dowry half million of memorial an to be seen at Tangier to money, and in addition the properios of mark the occupation of the British is the Bumbay and Tangier. The latter place remains of the mole at the barbour. The". reyured a garrison to protect it, and the Tangier Horse returned to England in
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Earl of Peterborough was commissioned to 1885, and King Charles, deciding to keep ART EXHIBITION Hungking, October 10, 1919. raise a force to hold it and operate against on the Tangier troops, added two more the Moom, who in those days word no troo;s to the already existing four troops mean antagonists, and had only recantly of horse, and re-based the regiment "The ben rolled back out of Europe from
be dund either by telephone or by letter: they also had many retegade Exropears in King's Own Royal Regiment of Dragoona Alexandra Buildings,
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their pay to help them.
Paterborough raised a regiment of foot, known as "The Tangier Foot," and late
the 2nd Quera's, and a strong troop of horse, which later was increased to seven troops, known as "The Tangier Horse,” and now as the Real Dragoons. These troops, mostly raised from the woll- *enamed veterans of the Continental ware, were mastered in October, 1881, the Fonti on Putney Health and the Borse on Georga's Field, Southwark, and, saliing in December, arised at Tangier in January, 1562.
The King's Own" was very en drop- ped, and the regiment.styled The Royal Regiment of Dragons," by which name it as always been known-unlike other regiments, which were known by the wes of their commandata.
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A sheet of twelvd 1 anna purple stamps.
FONG KAY, which the Dalai Lama of Thibet is said -to-be-gally-to-jumus, has been sent to HAIR DRESSING SALOON,
RAZORS GROUND and Set, contemporary, "says the "London and China Express. It is a curious produc From this time onwards, till 1880. they tion, suggestive of the crude stamps of o. 54, WELLINGTON STREET, were constsatly engaged in a vesations the feudatory States of India. In the sort of warfare, but with continued, small, | centre of each stamp is a device repre successful engagements—a mere handful of senting the white lion of Thibet. The men against hordes of Mours. Fortescue inscriptions are in nativo and in English relates that in March, 1863, after long characters, and the spandrel devices are endurance of incessant harassing attacks crudely copied from the Indian stamp from the Muses, the Governor, who had of the same denomination, viz., I anas. hitherto stood on the defensive, took the It is understood that other valvės cor. initiatisenad launched the Royal Dragons templated are anna, 2 sanse, and 4 annas, in each case the ornamentation of straight at them. So sigaul was the succusa
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of this firt venture that it was repeated a the Indian stamps of those values being The American New Style Chair. fnrtoight later by the same regiment and copied for the frames enclosing the white THE THIRTY-FIRST ORDINARY renewed on
a grander scala after two lion. The sheet in question came, It is MERTING of Shareholders will be outer by a rally of the whole gurriane, said, from the very highest ethether held at the Offices of the Undersigned, on WEDNESDAY, the 23rd instant, at Noon, which, after desperate fighting, auded once the stamps will ever get to issue.
in victory."
The leng-expected stamps of Kedah," The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com- more i
State recently transferred from In 1679 a large army of Moors made the CROWN YAROL EXTRA CANVAS pany will be CLOSED from 9th to 23rd
October, both daya inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LD., desperate attempts tu take Tangier, and in Siamese to Brikish protection, bave come
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the following year returned in increased to hand after nearly two years of waite Hongkong, October 1, 1912. 1244 numbers, when King Charles etched ang. They are very attractive in design. battalion of Giocadiers and Coldstream and are beautifully engraved. There are Guarda and sixteen cumpanies of the Royal fourteen denominations fro c.1 to #5, Scots to assist the garrison. In an attack and the designs represent
to c.60) and the meeting place, of the the enemy's lines in September, Sir paddy (1 to c.), azen ploughing (c.10 Palmes Fairborne, the Governor, was Basta. Connell, så Alor fituz (81 to $5), mortally wounded.
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