Awarded for Valour_ A History of the Victoria Cross and the Evolution of the British Concept of Heroism
12 AWARDED FOR VALOUR officer. Likewise was the case of future Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood; denied a Victoria Cross in the Cri ...
THE HERO IN VICTORIAN POPULAR MYTHOLOGY 13 Martial virtue was the measure of manliness, and thus attractive to women. Although G ...
14 AWARDED FOR VALOUR ‘That I had lost my left arm, mother. Well, that is nothing to fret about when thousands have been killed. ...
THE HERO IN VICTORIAN POPULAR MYTHOLOGY 15 The hundredth part of a moment seemed an hour, For one could pass to be saved, and on ...
16 AWARDED FOR VALOUR ‘An’ hand over back!’ sez a Sargint that was behin’. I saw a sword lick out past Crook’s ear, an’ the Payt ...
THE HERO IN VICTORIAN POPULAR MYTHOLOGY 17 And in defeat, to remain defiant and deny the enemy his (or her) pleasure: When you’r ...
18 AWARDED FOR VALOUR Henty’s view differed with that of Mulvaney, as he deemed a certain amount of seasoning necessary to produ ...
THE HERO IN VICTORIAN POPULAR MYTHOLOGY 19 ‘Well, Bob, so I hear you have been fighting and commanding ships and doing all sorts ...
20 AWARDED FOR VALOUR proper officer could impart the virtues of valour and fidelity, at least among the martial races:^59 Sons ...
THE HERO IN VICTORIAN POPULAR MYTHOLOGY 21 privateer, under which conditions he had engaged the crew, the ship would become a re ...
22 AWARDED FOR VALOUR Take up the White Man’s burden – Send forth the best ye breed – Go bind your sons to exile To serve the ca ...
THE HERO IN VICTORIAN POPULAR MYTHOLOGY 23 from a waggon under very heavy fire, a shot having disabled the horses. On 5 November ...
24 AWARDED FOR VALOUR plateau, where the crowd of battered soldiers made way for their fresh and unblooded brothers. ‘Are you re ...
THE HERO IN VICTORIAN POPULAR MYTHOLOGY 25 Here in the storming of a native stronghold we see the epitome of the Victorian ideal ...
TWO The Institutionalization of Heroism in Britain A rather obvious question in dealing with the creation of a new thing is ‘why ...
THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF HEROISM IN BRITAIN 27 because he had no other alternative required discipline. The soldier who enlis ...
28 AWARDED FOR VALOUR Miani in 1843, but with one exception in 1846 it did not become common practice until the dispatches of Lo ...
THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF HEROISM IN BRITAIN 29 By mid-century the subjects of Queen Victoria were used to reading accounts of ...
30 AWARDED FOR VALOUR Army reform when he served as Secretary at War in the 1830s and had served as Secretary of War between Jul ...
THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF HEROISM IN BRITAIN 31 representatives of parliamentary policy and they answered to the monarch throu ...
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