Awarded for Valour_ A History of the Victoria Cross and the Evolution of the British Concept of Heroism

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  1. Tennyson, ‘Sir Galahad,’Best Of, 94.

  2. Henty,One of the 28th, 249–50.

  3. Rudyard Kipling, ‘With the Main Guard,’ Soldiers Three:The Story of the Gadsbys in Black
    and White(New York: Doubleday, Page, 1914), 60, 62, 66, 70.

  4. Henty,One of the 28th, 372, 376. See also Henty,With Moore at Corunna, 94–7 for an
    almost identical philosophic treatment of serious maiming.

  5. Henty,Jack Archer, 103–4.

  6. G. A. HentyFor Name and Fame, or, Through Afghan Passes(New York: Hurst, n.d.), 253.
    This volume proves once again that you cannot judge a Henty work by the cover; the
    troops depicted marching through the Afghan Passes carry the US flag.

  7. Henry Newbolt ‘Craven (Mobile Bay, 1864),’ inPoems:Old and New(London: John
    Murray, 1912), 38–9. Italics as in original.

  8. G. A. Henty,Beric the Briton(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1896), 178–9.

  9. Hector Bolithio, ed.,Letters of Queen Victoria From the Archives of Brandenburg-Prussia(New
    Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1938), 50. Letter from Queen Victoria to Princess
    Augusta, 23 October 1854.

  10. Rudyard Kipling, ‘With the Main Guard,’ 63.

  11. Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Ballad of Boh Da Thone’in Kipling: A Selection of His Stories and Poems,
    John Beecroft, ed., (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., n.d.), 496–503.

  12. Henty,One of the 28th, 332. See also Henty,The Bravest of the Brave, or, With Peterborough in
    Spain(New York: Hurst, n.d.), 119.

  13. Thomas Babington Macaulay,Macaulay’s Essays on Clive and Hastings, Charles Robert Gaston,
    ed. (Boston: Ginn, 1910), 26.

  14. Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Young British Soldier,’Rudyard Kipling’s Verse, Inclusive Edition,
    1885–1918(Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, 1920), 475–6.

  15. Kipling, ‘That Day,’Verse, 497.

  16. Henty,With Moore at Corunna, 269–70.

  17. Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Taking of Lungtungpen,’Kipling Stories:Twenty-Eight Exciting Tales
    by the Master Storyteller(New York: Platt & Munk„ 1960), 300.

  18. Henty,The Bravest of the Brave, 29.

  19. Kipling, ‘Lord Roberts,’Verse, 234.

  20. Kipling, ‘The Taking of Lungtungpen,’Kipling Stories, 300; ‘Bobs,’Verse, 450.

  21. G. A. Henty,Held Fast for England: A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar(New York: Charles Scribner’s
    Sons, 1902), 237.

  22. Henty,One of the 28th, 135.

  23. G. A. Henty,In Greek Waters: A Story of the Grecian War of Independence(New York: Charles
    Scribner’s Sons, 1902), 141.

  24. Heather Elizabeth Gillis Streets, ‘ “The Right Stamp of Men:” Military Imperatives and
    Popular Imperialism in Late Victorian Britain’ (PhD diss., Duke University, 1998).

  25. Henry Newbolt, ‘The Guides at Cabul,’ inThe Island Race(London: Elkin Mathews,
    1902), 61–4.

  26. Henty,In Greek Waters, 120.

  27. Ibid., p. 136.

  28. Tennyson, ‘Maud,’Best Of, 312.

  29. Henry Newbolt, ‘Hymn in the Time of War and Tumults,’ inThe Island Race, 112.

  30. Rudyard Kipling, ‘The White Man’s Burden,’in Kipling: A Selection of His Stories and Poems.
    John Beecroft, ed. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, n.d.), 444.

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