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Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 56, December 2, 1897, The
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Title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 56, December 2, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
Author: Various
Editor: Julia Truitt Bishop
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Language: English
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The recent despatches from India tell us that the soldiers who are fighting on the frontier have performed another gallant deed.
The heroes, this time, belonged to the Northamptonshire regiment.
It was necessary for the British to find out if the enemy was encamped anywhere in the neighborhood, so a portion of the troops left the British camp and marched to the summit of a mountain called Saran Sar.
There were no signs of the Afridis as they marched along, and the top of the hill was reached with little difficulty.
There they found the remains of a hastily vacate