Word: auchinleck
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...quantities of manuscript and unpublished writing. Boswell's descendants were gentry, and did not propose to add any more fuel to their ancestor's reputation, already to their minds a little too lurid. From one respectable generation to another Boswell's manuscripts mouldered, first in Auchinleck Castle, then in Malahide Castle, Ireland, whither Lord Talbot de Malahide, Boswell's great-great-grandson and heir, transported them...
...turbaned Pathans and Sikhs of the Peshawar and Nowshera Brigades, the tough, kilted Scots of the Highland Light Infantry, to a total of 15.000 men. as well as planes, mountain artillery, light tanks. Commanding was a hardened Scot of a professional British Army family. Brig.-General Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, advised by Acting Chief of Staff Major-General Eric de Burgh and Director of Military Operations and Intelligence Brig.-General Alan Fleming Hartley. This impressive trio and all their men and metal were obviously far more than the Haji's son warranted. Britain was determined, however, to show its power...
After nightfall, General Auchinleck sent his Indian sharpshooters up the sides of Khazana Sar, two battalions to a peak. It was a perfect frontier night, cold and clear with a half moon. In the valley the General waited. At dawn he heard his Indian rifles sniping back at the Haji's son's snipers. The honor of storming the Pass went to the white men of the Highland Light. They advanced in deployed formation while their batteries threw metal over the Pass...
...half a dozen Mohmands scuttling up the gorges, a turbaned man in front of a village waving a white flag. It was a British victory. The job ended in the plain hard work of British empire-building. By transferring his supplies from trucks to mule and camel, General Auchinleck advanced his base into the Haji's plain. Then he rushed construction of a water line and the extension of the Gandab Road through the Pass. Said dispatches: "The nature of the territory and the skill of the soldiers as mountain climbers place the operations among the most notable undertaken...
...long time this cabinet was lost. Then one day James Boswell's great-great-grandson, James Boswell Talbot, Sixth Baron Talbot de Malahide, visited his Scottish estates, the Castle of Auchinleck. Rummaging in a closet, his hand found a peculiar trunklike cabinet, made of a dark and heavy wood. In its drawers and cubbyholes there were a lot of old papers, so soft they made no noise when Lord Talbot shuffled them together and lifted them out of the box. Very gently, burning with excitement as if he had been touching gold, Lord Talbot laid them on a desk. Then...