Chapter XII: Cecil Rhodes 279

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

BY STANLEY L. WOOD

“ALMIGHTY GOD, OF THY GOODNESS, GIVE ME LIFE AND
LEAVE ONCE TO SAIL AN ENGLISH SHIP ON YONDER
SEA!” _Frontispiece_

_Facing p._
HE DROVE THE GOOD STEEL THROUGH MAIL AND FLESH AND BONE 10

DUKE WILLIAM ROARED OUT THAT HE WAS ALIVE 17

EDWARD GRIPPED THE WOULD-BE MURDERER 30

THEY CARRIED HIM DOWN TO THE BOATS 53

HE SWOOPED WITH HIS CAVALRY ROUND THE REAR OF THE KING’S ARMY 83

HE HALTED HIS ARMY ... AND SANG THE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEENTH
PSALM 94

MADE HIM REEL IN HIS SADDLE 112

“MEN OF ENNISKILLEN, WHAT WILL YOU DO FOR ME?” HE CRIED 113

MISSED HIM AND KILLED ANOTHER MAN BEHIND HIM 141

INSTEAD OF CHARGING THEY TURNED ROUND AND MADE LANES THROUGH
THE ARMY BEHIND THEM 158

HIS ENEMY WENT DOWN WITH A BULLET IN THE RIGHT SIDE 185

NELSON AT COPENHAGEN 214

THE ORDER THAT SENT THE BRITISH LINE STREAMING DOWN FROM THE
RISING GROUND 246

THE LONELY MAN WHO STOOD ON THE RAMPARTS OF KHARTOUM 275

THAT HISTORIC INDABA IN THE MATOPPOS 300