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Excerpt from The Horse and the War
I wonder if people understand that in order to keep pace with the require ments of our Armies we have had to buy horses and mules running well into seven figures. I wonder! Can you, for instance, imagine that whereas the Army possessed about horses on August 4, 1914, we must now own at least a million? And in the interval of four years that million and many more - for, of course, we must allow for the heavy wastage from death and disease which has gone on in all the theatres Of war from day to day - have had to be bought in all parts of the world and brought by our Ships to Europe and the East. We have bought colossal numbers in North America, and others in South America, Australia and New Zealand, India, Spain, Portugal, South Africa, while camels, oxen and donkeys have been purchased for use in those theatres to which they were peculiarly suited. We may assume that the four or five hundred thousand bought Up to date in the United King dom and the seven or eight hundred thousand bought and Shipped from North America have been employed in this country and France in the same way as horses from Australasia would naturally be most conveniently used in Egypt, India and Mesopotamia.
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I wonder if people understand that in order to keep pace with the require ments of our Armies we have had to buy horses and mules running well into seven figures. I wonder! Can you, for instance, imagine that whereas the Army possessed about horses on August 4, 1914, we must now own at least a million? And in the interval of four years that million and many more - for, of course, we must allow for the heavy wastage from death and disease which has gone on in all the theatres Of war from day to day - have had to be bought in all parts of the world and brought by our Ships to Europe and the East. We have bought colossal numbers in North America, and others in South America, Australia and New Zealand, India, Spain, Portugal, South Africa, while camels, oxen and donkeys have been purchased for use in those theatres to which they were peculiarly suited. We may assume that the four or five hundred thousand bought Up to date in the United King dom and the seven or eight hundred thousand bought and Shipped from North America have been employed in this country and France in the same way as horses from Australasia would naturally be most conveniently used in Egypt, India and Mesopotamia.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Sidney Galtrey
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ISBN - 9780265168554
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.8 cm
Page Count - 146
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Sidney Galtrey
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ISBN - 9781330796948
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.8 cm
Page Count - 148
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