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Definition of Bluejackets
1. bluejacket [n] - See also: bluejacket
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bluejackets
Literary usage of Bluejackets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. China and the Allies by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1901)
"CHAPTER LXV British bluejackets and marines—Our army—Artillery—Welsh ... is known
already of the behaviour and bearing of British bluejackets and marines. ..."
2. On the South African Frontier: The Adventures and Observations of an by William Harvey Brown (1899)
"... Diamond Mines—We Set Out for Mafeking—Drollery of the bluejackets — Discomforts
of Soldiering — Travelling by Ox Wagons—Hunting Springbuck Antelope—The ..."
3. King's Complete History of the World War ...: 1914-1918. Europe's War with by William C. King (1922)
"... British bluejackets and marines swarmed over tho splintering gangways, dropping
on to the shell-swept wall. The storming parties moved steadily along ..."
4. Britain's Roll of Glory: Or the Victoria Cross : Its Heroes and Their Valor by D. H. Parry (1898)
"Captain Peel, whom we have seen in the trenches before Sebastopol, started up
the Ganges with ten huge 68-pounders and 400 bluejackets, known as the ..."
5. Address ... Before the Union League Club of Chicago, February 22, 1904 by Elihu Root (1904)
"... bluejackets. They took possession of the shed of the Panama Railroad Company,
a stone building capable of defense, collected there the American men ..."
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