Dalton paused midway in the secret passage, and through a loop or narrow window concealed by architectural ornaments, and which overlooked the great drawing-rooms, made a reconnaissance of the field.

Until fog came down to prevent reconnaissance in an extremely bad bit of country they were well up to their march table, and in the few clear moments of the afternoon of the 7th, General Mott, from the top of Ras esh Sherifeh, a hill 3237 feet high, the most prominent feature south of Jerusalem, caught a glimpse of Bethlehem and the Holy City.

* I made my first Front Line Reconnaissance on July 27th, two days after we had moved forward to our new Battery position.

There had been many reconnaissances by officers who were to act as guides to columns, and they were quite familiar with the ground; and the guns and ammunition columns were taken by routes which had been carefully selected and marked.

Your son, W.B. CONTENTS CHAPTER I - INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER II - THE MARCH BEGINS CHAPTER III - THE SHANDUR PASS CHAPTER IV - FROM LASPUR TO GASHT CHAPTER V - CHOKALWAT CHAPTER VI - THE RECONNAISSANCE FROM MASTUJ CHAPTER VII - THE FIGHT AT NISA GOL CHAPTER VIII -

THROUGH THE BRAZILIAN WILDERNESS BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT PREFACE This is an account of a zoo-geographic reconnaissance through the Brazilian hinterland.

"[G] General Washburn rode out to make a reconnaissance for a route to the river, and returned about 3 o'clock in the afternoon with the intelligence that from the summit of a high mountain he had seen Yellowstone lake, the proposed object of our visit; and with his compass he had noted its direction from our camp.

Now an officer in the Royal Flying Corps, the ribbon of the Military Cross bearing witness to many a risky reconnaissance over the Rufigi Valley; but then a dirty mechanic in the French Aviation Corps and a prisoner.

On the 5th I got up at four o'clock in the morning and carried out a Front Line Reconnaissance with Sergeant Cotes, the No. 1 of my gun, and Avoglia, an Italian Sergeant Major attached to our Battery, rather a sleek person, who had been a maître-d'hôtel at Brighton before the war.

It was an English aeroplane on a journey of reconnaissance above the enemy's lines.

The first requirement is that airships, in addition to simplicity of handling and independence of weather, should possess a superior fighting strength, for it is impossible effectively to screen the movements of the army and to open the road for reconnaissances without attacking successfully the hostile flying-machines and air cruisers.

It is desirable that here and there a part of the work should be done in outline by such a geographic and zoological reconnaissance as ours; we would, for example, be very grateful for such work in portions of the interior of the Guianas, on the headwaters of the Xingu, and here and there along the eastern base of the Andes.

Reconnaissances at the river mouth were carried out with great daring.

A short way out of the village we were met by a patrol which Borradaile had sent out to meet us, and by two o'clock we were in camp, where we found Oldham in command, Borradaile having gone on a reconnaissance down the valley.

It can scarcely be regarded now as anything but an interesting failure, but a failure that has all the educational value of a first reconnaissance into unexplored territory.

In 1519 he gathered an army for his first expedition, which was, however, more of a reconnaissance than a conquest.

After we had reached the other side we crawled out on the beach and made a careful reconnaissance to the north.

On the 23rd we made a reconnaissance up the mountains to look for positions.