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Harris, Henry. Introduction By Lieut.-General Sir Brian Horrocks. Special Foreword By Professor G.A. Hayes-McCoy. ListingsIf you cannot find what you want on this page, then please use our search feature to search all our listings. Click on Title to view full description
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Harris, Henry. Introduction by Lieut.-General Sir Brian Horrocks. Special foreword by Professor G.A. Hayes-McCoy. THE ROYAL IRISH FUSILIERS (THE 87th AND 89th REGIMENTS OF FOOT). FAMOUS REGIMENTS SERIES.
Leo Cooper, London, 1972, first edition.
171 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photographs, reproductions. Music for Regimental March (Barrosa). " 'Faugh-a-ballagh' - this is the motto of the Royal Irish Fusiliers, and it is a war-cry that has struck terror in the heart s of Britain's enemies in scores of desperate battles, dating from the Regiment's formation in 1793 to its last gory encounter with the Germans in Northern Italy in 1945. (It) means 'clear the way', and the rifles and bayonets of the 'Faughs' - p r o nounced 'Fogs' - have always done just that. The record of the Rement has always been a splendid one, but never more so than in the Battle of Barrosa in 1811 when the 'Faughs' routed the French in a charge, described by an eye-witness as t he mo st t errible bayonet fight he had ever seen. In this battle, too, Sergeant Masterson, one of the greatest 'Faughs' of them all, wrested the Imperial Eagle standard from a French officer to the accompaniment of the immortal words 'Be Jaber s, bo y s, I h ave the cuckoo!' The spirit of Barrosa lived on in many more savage charges - the 'Faughs' have never acknowledged any peers when it came to close and bloody work with the bayonet: at Vittoria, Nivelle, Orthes and Toulouse against the Fre nc h; in E gypt against the dervishes; in South Africa against the Boers; in Palestine against the Turks. And of the Regiment's charge at St. Eloi in March, 1915 it was said 'it was Barrosa all over again'....In the Second World War the s piri t was th e s ame, and m any a hard-pressed commander in France, North Africa, Sicily and Italy slept easier in the knowledge that the 'Faughs' - the 'neutrals' from Galway, Louth and Meath - were under his command." Light cigarette odor, ligh t bro wning to e dges of t ext bl ock, very light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has very light browning, light wrinkling at bottom of spine. Very Good/Very Good
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