Military Service and Adventures in the Far East: Including Sketches of the Campaigns Against the Afghans in 1839 and the Sikhs in 1845-6, Том 2J. Ollivier, 1849 |
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... never flourish , which is eternally watered with human blood . The earliest records of Afghan history present to us the same prevalence of murderous tastes , from the days of Sinkol , the contemporary of Romulus , throughout the Middle ...
... never flourish , which is eternally watered with human blood . The earliest records of Afghan history present to us the same prevalence of murderous tastes , from the days of Sinkol , the contemporary of Romulus , throughout the Middle ...
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... never likely to become a profitable territory . The question of its advantages as a military position , may form a theoretical subject for dis- cussion ; but practically , the utter inability of the country to pay and maintain a large ...
... never likely to become a profitable territory . The question of its advantages as a military position , may form a theoretical subject for dis- cussion ; but practically , the utter inability of the country to pay and maintain a large ...
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... never seen one which at all satisfied me . The interior of the edifice , which is octagonal , and inlaid with mosaic of precious stones representing fruits and flowers , no drawing could ever do justice to . In the centre , surrounded ...
... never seen one which at all satisfied me . The interior of the edifice , which is octagonal , and inlaid with mosaic of precious stones representing fruits and flowers , no drawing could ever do justice to . In the centre , surrounded ...
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... Never will be obliterated those happy hours from my memory , which I passed wandering amongst the groves and terraces of that type of symmetrical beauty . I have often thought , that should any immoderate afflictions fall to my lot in ...
... Never will be obliterated those happy hours from my memory , which I passed wandering amongst the groves and terraces of that type of symmetrical beauty . I have often thought , that should any immoderate afflictions fall to my lot in ...
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... Never having been a very enthusiastic ad- mirer of architecture , and cordially admitting that " God made the country , man the town , " I ap- proached the Taj , dishonestly prejudiced against it , especially as I had heard the united ...
... Never having been a very enthusiastic ad- mirer of architecture , and cordially admitting that " God made the country , man the town , " I ap- proached the Taj , dishonestly prejudiced against it , especially as I had heard the united ...
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16th Lancers 1st Brigade 2nd INFANTRY DIVISION action advance Afghans Aliwal amongst arrived attack bank batteries battle battle of Aliwal BATTLE OF SOBRAON Bengal bridge of boats British army British forces Buddewal cantonments Capt Caubul command crossed the Sutlej ditto enemy enemy's Ensign entrenchments Ferozepore Ferozeshuhur fire flank fords front frontier gallant garrison Ghoolab Singh Goorcheras guns H.M. 50th Regt horse artillery howitzers Hureeka India INFANTRY DIVISION irregular John Littler Jugraon jungle KILLED AND WOUNDED Ladwa Lahore Lieut Lieut.-Col Loodiana main column ment Merut miles military Moodkee morning musketry Native Cavalry Native Infantry nearly night numbers occupied ORDNANCE CAPTURED palanquins party pickets position pounder protected Sikh Punjaub Rajah regiment reserve force retreat river Runjeet severely Sikh army Sikh camp Sikh forces Sir Harry Smith Sir Hugh Gough Sir John sirdars Sirmoor slightly Sobraon soldiers Staff storm Sutlej tion troops village whilst whole
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Страница 1 - 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 266 - Singh engages never to take, or retain in his service any British subject, nor the subject of any European or American State, without the consent of the British Government.
Страница 3 - ... Chief Engineer, methodically blew up the massive buildings with gunpowder. "War, even under so mild and just a commander as Pollock, is a terrible thing," commented Mackenzie, "and many a guiltless and friendly Hindu and Kuzzilbash was involved in the punishment which befel the bloodstained Caubuli." "This has always appeared to me rather a wanton mode of exciting the hostility of the harmless Bunnists," wrote Captain McKinnon, "to punish the unfortunate house owners of the bazaars was not dignified...
Страница 197 - Artillery, Commanding Artillery, 1st Division, Army of the Sutlej. NB The quantity of ammunition captured with the artillery, and found in the camp of the enemy, is beyond accurate calculation, consisting of shot, shell, grape, and small arm ammunition of every description and for every calibre. The powder found in the limbers and waggons of the guns and in the magazines of the entrenched camp has been destroyed to prevent accidents. Six large hackery loads have also been appropriated to the destruction...
Страница 198 - ... ammunition of every description, and for every calibre. The powder found in the limbers and waggons of the guns, and in the magazines of the entrenched camp, has been destroyed, to prevent accidents. Six large hackery loads have also been appropriated to the destruction of forts in the neighbourhood. As many of the shot and shell as time would admit of being collected have been brought into the Park — the shells, being useless, have been thrown into the river. The shot will be appropriated...
Страница 176 - ... mortal aid. Pain, in all its degrees and hideous varieties was forcibly portrayed on every square yard of earth which surrounded me ; and passing from sufferer to sufferer, I felt, or fancied I felt, each patient's eye following wistfully the movements of such fortunate visitants as were exempted from the services of the knife or lancet, and sometimes dwelling reproachfully on the useless spectator of their sufferings. I felt it was almost a sacrilege to remain in such a place without being useful...
Страница 175 - Outside the hospital tents were laid the bodies of those who had recently died ; many in the contorted positions in which the rigid hand of death had fixed them ; others more resembling sleep than death, had calmly passed away, struck down in full vigour and robust bodily health, when the human frame, it was natural to suppose, would have struggled more fiercely with its arch enemy : but...
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Страница 124 - Many of these guns have long Persian inscriptions on them, and very old dates; some are highly ornamented, carriages in good repair, and closely assimilating to those in use with the Bengal artillery, the whole well fitted for post guns ; the metal in these guns is much heavier than those of a similar calibre in use in the Bengal artillery.
Страница 87 - ... the Sutlej and Moodkee, and the longer towards Ferozepore and the open country. The plains, as at Moodkee, were covered with low jhow jungle, which added to the difficulty of the advance, which was made in four divisions; the left wing under the direction of the Governor-General (Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Hardinge), who had volunteered his services as second in command. One hundred guns of the enemy, nearly one-half of battering * See memoir of Colonel Sir John McCaskill in Appendix, page...