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Letter to the Daily Telegraph: Report by Lt. Winston Churchill about the night of 15 September 1897 before his first engagement as a combatant the following morning.
NORTH-WEST FRONTIER—I realize that if I have to attempt to give you any account of the action of the Mohmand Valley, which occurred next day, this letter would be expanded to unwieldy dimensions. Hence I must leave the reader with a picture of a sleeping camp, through the moonlight displays the dark figures of soldiery in every attitude of weariness, and glints brightly from the bayonetted rifles that lie along the shelter trench, where mules and horses shift uneasily in their pickets, and where, perhaps, inscrutable Fate is calmly
