Scenes in a Soldier's Life: Being a Connected Narrative of the Principal Military Events in Scinde, Beeloochistan, and Affghanistan, During 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, and 1843: Under Generals Lord Keane, Brooks, Sir R. Sale, Wiltshire, Pollock, Nott, England, M'Caskill, and Sir C. NapierR. and C. Chalmers, 1848 - 390 страници |
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... Narrow defile ; Power of defence ; Sixth day ; Narrowness and danger of the Pass ; Description of the Mountains ; Length of Pass ; Seventh day ; Description of scene ; Beauties of the Valley of Shawl ; Comparison ; Emerging from the ...
... Narrow defile ; Power of defence ; Sixth day ; Narrowness and danger of the Pass ; Description of the Mountains ; Length of Pass ; Seventh day ; Description of scene ; Beauties of the Valley of Shawl ; Comparison ; Emerging from the ...
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... Narrow escape of General Nott ; Skirmishes too numerous to detail ; Harrassing attacks ; Enemy Cowards ; Unsuccessful journey ; The Return ; Attack on the City ; Valiant conduct of the sick ; Bravery of the Troops ; Noble conduct of an ...
... Narrow escape of General Nott ; Skirmishes too numerous to detail ; Harrassing attacks ; Enemy Cowards ; Unsuccessful journey ; The Return ; Attack on the City ; Valiant conduct of the sick ; Bravery of the Troops ; Noble conduct of an ...
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... Narrow escape ; Unpleasant discovery ; The heat of battle ; The charge ; The return ; The enemy proceed to Ghuznee ; March across the Plain of a " Thousand Forts ; " The Hazarahs , a friendly tribe ; Provisions no longer procurable ...
... Narrow escape ; Unpleasant discovery ; The heat of battle ; The charge ; The return ; The enemy proceed to Ghuznee ; March across the Plain of a " Thousand Forts ; " The Hazarahs , a friendly tribe ; Provisions no longer procurable ...
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... narrow escape ; My arrival at Kurrachie ; Hazardous voyage to Bombay ; For- tunate again ; Remarks on Captain A. A. Nelson , 40th ; Mr. Smith ; Mr. Harvey ; Embarkation for England ; Safe arrival in my native land ; Concluding remarks ...
... narrow escape ; My arrival at Kurrachie ; Hazardous voyage to Bombay ; For- tunate again ; Remarks on Captain A. A. Nelson , 40th ; Mr. Smith ; Mr. Harvey ; Embarkation for England ; Safe arrival in my native land ; Concluding remarks ...
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... built , and the streets narrow ; the houses are of mud , and the general appearance of the place is miserable and filthy . The suburbs are somewhat more pleasant , having a few gardens , which are 56 SCENES IN A SOLDIER'S LIfe .
... built , and the streets narrow ; the houses are of mud , and the general appearance of the place is miserable and filthy . The suburbs are somewhat more pleasant , having a few gardens , which are 56 SCENES IN A SOLDIER'S LIfe .
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23rd Fusiliers 56th Regiment advance Affghanistan Affghans Ameers amongst appearance arms army arrival Artillery attack baggage Bala Hissar battle became body Bolun Pass Bombay Brigade British Cabool camels camp Candahar cantonments Captain cattle cavalry chief citadel Colonel command Commissariat consequence Dadur despatched directed encampment enemy entrance Envoy Europeans evacuated fatigue feelings fire force formed fortress Futteh Khan gates Ghuznee Gool Government ground guard guns halted harrassing Herat hills horses hundred Hydrabad immediately Indus Kelat Khiva Kojuk Kotra Kurrachie Lancashire length Lieut Lieutenant loss Mahomed Major Manchester matchlocks ment miles miserable Montreal mountains Native Infantry night Nott Nusseer officers party Peshawar possession Prince prisoners proceeded Quebec Quetta rendered road route Royal Engineers scarcely scene Scinde sent Sepoys Sergeant Shah Shooja shot sick Sir John Keane Sirdar situation soldier soon Street succeeded Sukkur tents tion treachery tribes Troops whole wounded
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Страница 152 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Страница 174 - And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him to the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth ; and he put forth his hand, and took her, and brought her in unto him into the ark.
Страница 1 - I ran it through, even from my boyish days, To the very moment that he bade me tell it : Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Страница 152 - But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Страница 1 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence And portance in my travel's history; Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven.
Страница 356 - When war's declared and danger's nigh " God and the soldier " is the people's cry, When peace is once more made and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted.
Страница 91 - If Heaven had but assign'd us To live and die in scenes like this, With some we've left behind us ! As travellers oft look back at eve When eastward darkly going, To gaze upon that light they leave Still faint behind them glowing, — So, when the close of pleasure's day To gloom hath near consign'd us, We turn to catch one fading ray Of joy that's left behind us.
Страница 145 - ... enemy's cavalry still continued to retire before us, at intervals, and very slowly. By the time that we had come within musket range, they perceived that their object had been attained ; their remaining infantry had gained the Pass, and they immediately faced about and fled with the rapidity of a rout, leaving their camp equipage entire, and a large quantity of treasure. It was, however, not without vexation that we beheld the majority of the enemy we had taken so much pains to get at, thus scampering...
Страница 62 - ... of the water : we had still a considerable distance to march ere we could arrive at the road, — no not road, track — which led to our destined object. No difficulty must daunt a soldier ; no obstacle must prevent his onward progress, if there be the most remote prospect of success. And therefore, thus stranded in the middle of a swamp, we had no alternative but to attempt to wade through the saturated mud.
Страница 114 - The camp appears as one blaze of fire from the darkness of the night, and bushes of piles of brushwood collected, being fired to give light to enable the packing and loading to be carried on ; and should you stray a dozen yards perchance it will take you half an hour to find your place again. And I have often seen, from the dream of the sleeper to the movement off the ground of more than 20,000 souls and cattle, not more than half an hour elapse. Long ere day dawns, all are again on the march ; the...