On the Road to Bagdad A Story of Townshend's Gallant Advance on the Tigris
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On the Road to Bagdad
A Story of Townshend's Gallant Advance on the Tigris
Author of "With Joffre at Verdun" "Under French's Command" "With Our Russian Allies" &c. &c.
Illustrated by Wal Paget
"THE CHIEF RETURNED THE OFFICER'S FRANK GAZE WITH A GLANCE WHICH TOLD OF COURAGE AND PRIDE"
Contents
Illustrations
ON THE ROAD TO BAGDAD
CHAPTER I
A Frontier Station
CHAPTER II
Geoffrey Keith and Another
Sketch Map of Mesopotamia
CHAPTER III
The Persian Gulf
CHAPTER IV
The First Encounter
"WHAT WAS LEFT OF THOSE ARAB HORSEMEN SCATTERED AND FLED"
CHAPTER V
News of the Enemy
CHAPTER VI
An Exploring-party
CHAPTER VII
Major Joseph Douglas
CHAPTER VIII
The Motor-boat in Action
"GEOFF LEVELLED HIS OWN PIECE ON HIM"
CHAPTER IX
A Cutting-out Expedition
CHAPTER X
Geoff and Philip manœuvre
"PHILIP HURLED HIMSELF AND HIS CAPTIVE OVER THE RAIL OF THE VESSEL"
CHAPTER XI
A Soldiers' Battle
CHAPTER XII
Esbul, the Armenian
"GEOFF TURNED, AND, DRAWING HIS REVOLVER, EMPTIED IT AT THE TWO MEN STILL PURSUING"
CHAPTER XIII
An Amphibious Expedition
CHAPTER XIV
Captured by the Enemy
CHAPTER XV
Von Hildemaller's Intervention
CHAPTER XVI
Breaking Out
CHAPTER XVII
The Road to Bagdad
CHAPTER XVIII
News of Douglas Pasha
"THE ARAB SET OFF ALONG A PATH WITHIN SOME TWENTY YARDS OF OUR HEROES"
CHAPTER XIX
Tracking the German
CHAPTER XX
Success at Last
STORIES OF WAR
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