SMALL HORSES IN WARFARE

BY

SIR WALTER GILBEY, Bart.

ILLUSTRATED

VINTON & CO., Ltd.
9, NEW BRIDGE STREET, LONDON, E.C.
1900

CONTENTS.

PAGE
[Horses in the Crimean War.]3
[Cape Horses.]4
[Ponies in the Soudan.]6
[Burnaby's Ride to Khiva.]13
[Post Horses in Siberia.]17
[Ponies in India.]17
[Ponies in Northern Africa.[2]21
[Ponies in Morocco.]24
[Ponies in Eastern Asia.]26
[Ponies in Australia.]28
[Ponies in America and Texas.]29
[Army Horses of the Future.]34
[Breeding Small Horses.]36
[APPENDIX.]44

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE
[On the Alert]Frontispiece
[Bashi Bazouk]face 4
[One of Remington's Horse]face 12
[Six Original Pencil Sketches by Henry Alken]face 24
[Gimcrack]face 41

The present seems an appropriate time to put forward a few facts which go to prove the peculiar suitability of small horses for certain campaigning work which demands staying power, hardiness and independence of high feeding. The circumstance that the military authorities have been obliged to look to foreign countries for supplies of such horses for the war in South Africa has suggested the propriety of pointing out that we possess in England foundation stock from which we may be able to raise a breed of small horses equal to, or better than, any we are now obliged to procure abroad.

Elsenham Hall, Essex,
May, 1900.