1 Sung to the tune of Waltzing Matilda. These may be the original early eighteenth-century words of Waltzing, although Banjo Paterson, the poet, claimed never to have heard or seen the words of Rochester.
Waltzing MatildaWaltzing,Rochester.1 Time expired – completed the term of military service. By this period, soldiers signed on for a limited number of years. Many counted the years until their time expired.
1 The Alexandria Riots of 11th June 1882 started with an argument between a Maltese and an Arab donkey boy named El Ajjan at a café called Kawat-el-Gezaz near the Great Square. When the Maltese stabbed the Arab, a crowd of some thousands of Egyptians attacked any European and Christian they saw. Around fifty Europeans died and perhaps two hundred Egyptians.
1 Prime Minister Disraeli
