'Twas in the year of 1878, and. the winter had set in,
Lord Roberts and the British Army their march did begin,
On their way to Afghanistan to a place called Cabul;
And the weather was bitter cold and the rivers swollen and full.
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With an army about seven thousand strong, He spread death and desolation all along. All that is praised need not be morally good and great. tony