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Kipling’s interests in weapons and in professionals at work combine in this account, laid out with great expository skill. The armoured train reappears in ‘The Courting of Dinah Shadd’, which opens on the scene of army manoeuvres:
[....] mounted infantry skirmished up to the wheels of an armoured train which carried nothing more deadly than a twenty-five pounder Armstrong, two Nordenfelts, and a few score volunteers all cased in three-eighths-inch boiler-plate.
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Pinney, T. (1986). An Armoured Train. In: Pinney, T. (eds) Kipling’s India: Uncollected Sketches 1884–88. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07710-6_23
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