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7. The Great Strikes 209 8. The Introduction of “Universal Service,” and Two Voyages Home 215 9. Military Adviser to the Australian Colonies in London 224 10. Off to the South African War 232 11. With Lord Roberts in South Africa 238 12. In Command of a Mounted Column 244 13. Some South African Reminiscences 252 Part III 1. Organizing the Commonwealth of Australia 263 2. Commandant of Victoria 273 3. Commandant of New South Wales 281 4. Lord Kitchener's Visit to Australia 290 5. The American Naval Visit 302 6. Chief of the General Staff 308

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Brigadier-General J. M. Gordon, c.b.	Frontispiece
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Wardhouse, Aberdeenshire	10
Kildrummy Castle, Aberdeenshire	10
Alfonso XII.	34
The Prince Imperial	34
Don Carlos	50
“Turf Tissue,” Facsimile of First Page	84
Opening of the Commonwealth Parliament, 1901	120
Lord Hopetoun	150
Viscount Kitchener	220
The Commonwealth Military Board, 1914	254

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José Maria Jacobo Rafael Ramon Francisco Gabriel del Corazon de Jesus Gordon y Prendergast—to give the writer of this book the full name with which he was christened in Jeréz de la Frontera on March 19, 1856—belongs to an interesting, but unusual, type of the Scot abroad.

These virile venturers group themselves into four categories. Illustrating them by reference to the Gordons alone, there was the