#camel corps

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Those who would cross the desert wastes with their purse and body intact had better keep a keen eye on the dunes and a quick hand on their powder horn.

For my abandoned Shining Force project.

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Welcome to “Episode 209: The Red Ghost”. In Eagle Rock, Arizona 1883, a woman was trampled to death by what was described as a hoofed beast with red hair being ridden by a devilish skeleton cowboy. Decades passed, and more sightings of the fearsome specter were observed throughout Arizona. Some claimed the creature flew, others claimed it trampled all who stood in its way, and still others thought it might be the Devil himself or one of his horsemen, but when the mystery was finally solved in the 1890s, the truth would prove to be stranger than fiction. Join us on this Wild West adventure as we dissect the tall tale of “The Red Ghost”.

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Nov 16 1915 in WWI

November 16 1915 

Germans create Camel Corps in Africa anticipating that the British will invade

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Pakistan Army Frontier Force Regiment

The first Frontier Force unit ever was the Scinde (Sindh) Camel Corps raised at Karachi in 1843 by Lieutenant Robert FitzGerald, on the orders of Sir Charles Napier after the British conquest of Sindh. Its purpose was to pacify the lawless tribes in interior Sindh.

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© IWM (Q 15693) operations against the Senussi. Loading a camel at camp, Er Sollum, April 1916 (2/7th Middlesex, 1/6th Royal Scots, Camel Corps, mountain artillery and armoured cars.)

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Embankment Gardens

One of the joys of having time to walk through London is the chance discoveries, or re-discoveries, you make all the time. Walking through Embankment Gardens this morning I came across the gateway above. It is the old river gateway to York House built in 1626 by the aptly named Nicholas Stone for the Duke of Buckingham who had just bought York House. It is a small world of course because…

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Statues and Monuments: The Camel Corps Memorial

This memorial is to the members of the Camel Corps of the British Army who died in service. It is situated in Victoria Embankment Gardens, near Charing Cross Station.

The Camel Corps was formed in 1916 and in its short existence, it saw service in Egypt, Sinai and Palestine. The memorial records that the men of the Corps came from a number of Commonwealth Countries including the UK, Australia,…

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May 14, 1856 The Red Ghost

May 14, 1856 The Red Ghost

Long before Jefferson Davis became President of the Confederate States of America, he was a young Army Officer who was approached with the idea of using camels as pack animals. To Davis, the beast’s ability to survive in the desert, its massive strength and great stamina, made him wonder if this wasn’t the weapon of the future.

Twenty years later, then-US Secretary of War Jefferson Davis ordered…

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