Noblemen and grooms rode knee to knee in the ranks, and the officers included many well-known country gentlemen and masters of hounds.

Well horsed and well armed, a better force for the work in hand could not be imagined.

So high did the patriotism run that corps were formed in which the men not only found their own equipment but contributed their pay to the war fund.

Many young men about town justified their existence for the first time.

In a single club, which is peculiarly consecrated to the jeunesse doree, three hundred members rode to the wars.
Without waiting for these distant but necessary reinforcements, the Generals in Africa had two divisions to look to, one of which was actually arriving while the other was on the sea.