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.........Attended Victoria & Albert at the Crystal Palace exhibition during the Worlds Fair, toured the fair with their Majesty's & Elspeth. Met with Col. Sam Colt while he's exhibiting his Colt's revolver at the fair, he asked for help in promoting his revolver to the army.
.........Political in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire. Gathering information on Turkish armies capability in dealing with the Russian Bear {the best sources fore inforemation are the Belly Dancers}. While traveling through a Turkish Albanian port on the Dalmatian coast, the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian is there with the Adiatic Fleet{marring Princess Charlotte daughter of the King of the Belgians & being Emperor of Mexico, are in his future}. While "Max" is serving as a Naval Officer {father of the modern Austrian Navy} he has been sent there on diplomatic mission for his brother the Emperor Franz Josef.
.........Appointed Board of Ordinance, approving new weapons & cartridges for the Army, Appointment by Lord George Paget, thanks to "Uncle Bindley" at Horse Guard's {Elspeth's disappointed not an assignment for a Plunger}in charge of musketry & blazing away at the eunuch's all day, Lord George is always in the middle of everything. Elspeth still leading the way all the social soirées. Met up with Lord Cardigan, awhile later at one of these soirées while inebriated & hiding in a closet in Elspeth's room waiting to surprise her, caught him instead trying to bull Elspeth, "Lord Haw Haw" gathered himself up & left as if nothing had happened {Revenge will be sweet}. With Speedicut met "little Willy" {Prince William of Celle}at the Reform Club. Met & conversed with Col. Sam Colt, who was giving evidence before the select committee on firearms, needs a prominent officers endorsement to the committee in his Colt's revolver. Meeting with C-n-C Gen. Lord Raglan at Horse Guards, he has suggested me to their Majesties for a special assignment.
.........Audience Victoria & Albert, Windsor castle, by Royal Order I'm promoted Colonel in the Duke of Cambridge's Own 17th Lancers {Death-or-Glory Boys}, Prince William of Celle is made a Subaltern in the 17th as well {showed him where to purchase the best of everything for Campaigning, our uniforms, equipment, horses and larder rivaled Cardigans}. I'm charged by their Majesty's "To guide her European cousin in his youthful footsteps, guard his person, shield him from temptation, further his military education, & supervise his physical & spiritual welfare in every way" {having visited all the best sporting houses already}, he's training to be a British Army Officer.
......... Served Crimean War {a.d.c., C-n-C Gen. Lord Raglan; gathering intelligence & skirmishing with Cossacks {overzealous "little Willy" gets himself killed in a loan Sabre charge at the Battle of the Alma, BLAST HIM!}. Laid up with a case of the Gripe's. Confidant of a.d.c. Capt. Lewis Nolan & Comdr. of the 4th Light Dragoons Col. Lord George Paget. Found "Fanny" Duberly at breakfast on a crest overlooking the Causeway Heights . With "Fanny", Gen. Campbell & his thin red line when they broke the Cossack's cavalry charge's. With Gen.'s Scarlett & Lord Cardigan's charge's of the Heavy & Light Brigades , P.O.W. Brought before the Russian command staff & checked fore the presence of liqueur {they believed all the Light Brigade officers were drunk}. Captive of Count Capt. Ignatieff, Housed under the watchful eye of the Count Gen. Pencherjevski at his estate. Intimate of Lady Valentina Pencherjevski {the Count says Vala's husband not up to snuff}, crept out in the night, over-heard & saw the Tzar & Russian High-Command planning strategies for Afghan envision, escaped with Vala & Capt. Harry "Scud" East {Rugby fag}during the Serfs revolt, recaptured on Arrow of Arabat after mad sleigh ride {"Scud" fled #*@%}. Taken to Fort Raim by Ignatieff {Gotch-eyed hound}, held & tortured there with rebel leader Yakub Beg Gov. of Ak Mechet, rescued by & intimate of Ko Dali's daughter the Silk One {numb of mind & body after that one}. Later blew up Fort Raim with Yakub Beg & the Silk One after massed attack. Political, arrived at a British outpost on the Afghan boarder with memorized Russian invasion plans of Afghanistan {laid low with cholera fore months & it took a slow, restful voyage home before being in prime fettle again}. Lord Raglan does not survive the war; Varna, Odessa, Alma, Sevastopol, Balaclava; Starotoisk; Rostov; Aral coast, Syr Daria river the Steppe's; Peshawar;}
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