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Show Wolseley's ExcilinK Run. The following incident in Lord Wol-seley's Wol-seley's military career is recorded as having taken place when he was in his twenties, and had been in the British Brit-ish army three years. He speaks of it himself as the most exciting experience exper-ience of his life. It was in Burma, and Wolseley was in charge of a small detachment. During Dur-ing the advance he had the bad luck to fail into a deep hole, and when ha crawled out found himself on the enemy's en-emy's side. As he emerged, he was met with such a showei of bullets that he slid back in short order. After a few minutes min-utes he came out again, and amid a vigorous volley, ran for his life. He was nearly two hundred yards from the British line, and was hit three times before he reached a place of safety. 1 |
