Ambush

p 201, line, Roberts, 39 x 97 mm

Signature, 'Roberts', blc. Five figures at left, arms raised, four figures with guns over rise, at right of picture, pointing left.

p 271 [tr ed p 289] - 'They would pass below our ambush, and Zaal and the men were urgent to attack them on the sudden. We were one hundred, they little over two hundred. We had the upper ground, could hope to empty some of their saddles by our first volley, and then would camel-charge upon them.'

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