BLUE SHIRT AND KHAKI

Blue Shirt and Khaki at Malta.

BLUE SHIRT
AND KHAKI
A COMPARISON

By JAMES F. J. ARCHIBALD

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
TAKEN BY THE AUTHOR

SILVER, BURDETT AND
COMPANY, NEW YORK,
BOSTON, CHICAGO. 1901

Press of I. J. Little & Co.
Astor Place, New York

To the Memory of My Father,
F. A. Archibald, D.D., LL.D.

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	The New Soldier and His Equipment	17
II.	British and American Recruits	38
III.	The Common Soldier in the Field	60
IV.	The Officers	90
V.	American and British Tactics	121
VI.	Feeding the Two Armies	147
VII.	The Railroad in Modern War	171
VIII.	Transportation of Troops by Sea	194
IX.	The Last Days of the Boer Capital	217
X.	The British in Pretoria	247

List of Illustrations

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A Guard at Pretoria

Captain Arthur Lee, R.A., attaché with General Shafter in Cuba