The next year Ellen Terry played Titania" in" "Midsummer Night's Dream" and the "second singing fairy" was none other than litle Madge Robertson. "But London called liber and in 1865 at the Haymarket—a theatre which was destined to Bring, her many triumphs—she was a seven: teen-year-old Ophelia to Walter Mont gommery's Hamlet; her success lead-Ing to her subsequent engagement as, Desdemona to the same actor' Othello.
'An even greater distinction came her way in 1866 when she as Lady Macbeth appeared with Samuel Phelps, played Juliet at Nottingh: and Peg Woffington in "Masks" and Faces". Edward Sothern next' tool armed and barbed, with their staves, swordes, dagears, and. the rest of their furniture and 3 men as vewfers to goe on foot on the tone side of them to put them. oilwaies in remembrance of tht true kepinge of their martch But the history of the Marines over 200 years is the history of England's wars by land and sea. In the Napoleonic War the Marine forces took part in every sort of operation afloat and ashore, and the Royal Marine Artillery manned the trenches with their brothers of the Royal Artillery before Sebas-topd in the Crimean War. In the Indian Mutiny both artillery and infantry were with Peel's Naval Brigade. As for their record in [China and in the Great War, is it not written large in contemporary history? And in the annals of gallantry at sea there is none which nobler than the story of the troopship Birkenhead, which ssnic in 1852 off the coast of South Africa between Cape Agulhas and Danger Point. Every English schoolboy knows the story of how the Marines stood to attention as the ship went down, In his ditty dedicated to the Royal Regiment of Marines, Kipling immortalizes the story:
To take your chance in the thick of a rush, with firing all about, nothing "so bad when you've cover to "and, an' leave and. int be still to the:
drill-is a damn' tough bullet to chew, 'An' they done it, the Jolfies—Er 'Majesty's Jollles—soldier an'
sailor too!
'Their work was done when it inst begun; they was younger nor me an' you; 'Their choice it was plain between drowning' in' ut bein mopped by the screw, So they stood an' was still to the Birken'ead drill, soldier an'
sailor too'
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