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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... officer wore in his belt a pistol in proportion to his own stature , and was moreover known to have made as much noise since he came into the world as qualified him to compete , in that respect , with the artillery of the whole British ...
... officer wore in his belt a pistol in proportion to his own stature , and was moreover known to have made as much noise since he came into the world as qualified him to compete , in that respect , with the artillery of the whole British ...
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... officers , which was situated on a hill commanding an extensive view over the bare country , and where the breeze whistled most musically along the verandahs . The character of the country we now traversed was the opposite to that of ...
... officers , which was situated on a hill commanding an extensive view over the bare country , and where the breeze whistled most musically along the verandahs . The character of the country we now traversed was the opposite to that of ...
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... officer , who was travelling the same road , I embarked in a palan- quin amidst the torrents of rain which descended in streams , threatening to convert our sturdy little bearers into strong resemblances of water - rats . We managed ...
... officer , who was travelling the same road , I embarked in a palan- quin amidst the torrents of rain which descended in streams , threatening to convert our sturdy little bearers into strong resemblances of water - rats . We managed ...
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... officer in charge . They were living in spacious bungalows , under little restraint , and with many of their own people around them . Were it not that those who have once been possessed of power seem to languish under its loss - should ...
... officer in charge . They were living in spacious bungalows , under little restraint , and with many of their own people around them . Were it not that those who have once been possessed of power seem to languish under its loss - should ...
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... officers in his service . Their arms and uniform resembled much that of our native troops , except the peculiar Sikh turban ; and , until the revolutions which succeeded Runjeet's death , their discipline had been strictly maintained ...
... officers in his service . Their arms and uniform resembled much that of our native troops , except the peculiar Sikh turban ; and , until the revolutions which succeeded Runjeet's death , their discipline had been strictly maintained ...
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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...