They brought them water and any food they had.

Joubert came round the ambulance, commanding there should be no distinction between the wounded of either race.

Major Kincaid had seen a good deal of the so-called Colonel Blake and his so-called Irish Brigade.

He found that the very few who were not Americans were English.
He had not a single real Irishman among them.

Blake, an American, had come out for the adventure, just as he went to the Chili War.
As we were talking, up galloped General Brocklehurst, Ian Hamilton, and the Staff, and I was called upon to give information about certain points in the country to our front--names and directions, the bits of plain where cavalry could act, and so on.