Length4h 58m
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(Excerpt): "MacIver was born on Christmas Day, 1841, at sea, a league off the shore of Virginia. His mother was Miss Anna Douglas of that State; Ronald MacIver, his father, was a Scot, a Rossshire gentleman, a younger son of the chief of the Clan MacIver. Until he was ten years old young MacIver played in Virginia at the home of his father. Then, in order that he might be educated, he was shipped to Edinburgh to an uncle, General Donald Graham. After five years his uncle obtained for him a commission as ensign in the Honorable East India Company, and at sixteen, when other boys are preparing for college, MacIver was in the Indian Mutiny, fighting, not for a flag, nor a country, but as one fights a wild animal, for his life. He was wounded in the arm, and, with a sword, cut over the head. As a safeguard against the sun the boy had placed inside his helmet a wet towel. This saved him to fight another day, but even with that protection the sword sank through the helmet, the towel, and into the skull. To-day you can see the scar. He was left in the road for dead, and even after his wounds had healed, was six weeks in the hospital."
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length4 hrs 58 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
5CAPTAIN PHILO NORTON McGIFFIN
2MAJOR-GENERAL HENRY RONALD DOUGLAS MACIVER
6GENERAL WILLIAM WALKER,
3BARON JAMES HARDEN-HICKEY
7MAJOR BURNHAM, CHIEF OF SCOUTS
4WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL
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