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...rifleman hid in the thicket...
...while charting the South China Sea, Britain's map-making ship Rifleman found a circle of sandy coral reefs, each about 500 yards by 300 and rising only eight feet above sea level. The British named the islands for an obscure whaling captain-and forgot them. In 1933, French sailors from the surveying ship Astrolabe and the dispatch vessel Alerte, finding a handful of Chinese living happily on the reefs on coconuts, bananas, sweet potatoes and succulent turtles, hoisted a French flag on each island, blew a bugle call, buried bottles containing a French claim to the islands...
Elken 'Turk, Jr. '39, retiring president of the Rifle Club, shot 375 out of 400 in a met here last night, qualifying as the Export Rifleman, the highest collegiate rank...
Thus wrote John Joseph Henry, rifleman of Captain Matthew Smith's company, concerning Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec in 1775. He could not know, dictating these opening lines of his journal to his daughter thirty-five years after the expedition, that one day the exploits of Arnold and his men would be the background of one of the greatest of American historical novels--Keneth Roberts' "Arundel". In "Arundel", Arnold's march to Quebec forms the principle episode of a book alight with the fire and energy of the Revolutionary period, an episode which created such interest in the expedition...
...rifleman Henry's wish that Arnold's march be remembered as a stirring feat is realized with the publication of "March to Quebec". The book contains the diaries and journals of officers and common soldiers, including the journal of Henry himself, and the letters of Benedict Arnold which he dispatched during the expedition. There are accounts from members of all four of the division of the army, which followed closely upon each other. Some of the diaries are quite technical, dealing principally with the topography of the land traversed and the nature of river currents, while others are written...