 ... their whole force was driven from position after position with great slaughter, and the loss of seventeen pieces of artillery, some of them of heavy calibre; our infantry using that neverfailing weapon, the bayonet, whenever the enemy stood. Night...  Battles of the Nineteenth Century - Pagina 630door Archibald Forbes - 1896Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1816 - 838 pagina’s
...heavy calibre; our infantry using that never-failing weapon the bayonet, whenever the enemy stood. Night only saved them from worse disaster ; for this...dust from the sandy plain, which yet more obscured every object." The more awful combats of Ferozeshah and Sobraon must not eclipse the brightness of... | |
 | 1846 - 816 pagina’s
...heavy calibre; our infantry using that never-failing weapon the bayonet, whenever the enemy stood. Night only saved them from worse disaster ; for this...hour and a half of dim starlight, amidst a cloud of tat 't: the sandy plain, which jet mr< scured every object." The more awful combats of fe shah and... | |
 | 1846 - 798 pagina’s
...heavy calibre; our infantry using that never-failing weapon the bayonet, whenever the enemy stood. Night only saved them from worse disaster ; for this...during an hour and a half of dim starlight, amidst a clond of dust from the sandy plain, which yet more obscured every object." The more awful combats of... | |
 | Henry Hardinge Hardinge (Viscount) - 1846 - 234 pagina’s
...of heavy calibre ; our infantry using that never-failing weapon, the bayonet, whenever they stood. Night only saved them from worse disaster, for this...dust from the sandy plain, which yet more obscured every object. I regret to say, this gallant and successful attack was attended with considerable loss... | |
 | 1846 - 840 pagina’s
...heavy calibre ; our infantry, using that never-failing weapon, th.-. bayonet, whenever the enemy stood. Night only saved them from worse disaster, for this...dust from the sandy plain, which yet more obscured every object. I regret to say, this gallant and successful attack was attended with considerable loss:... | |
 | 1846 - 230 pagina’s
...of heavy calibre ; our infantry using that never-failing weapon, the bayonet, whenever they stood. Night only saved them from worse disaster, for this...dust from the sandy plain, which yet more obscured every object. I regret to say, this gallant and successful attack was attended with considerable loss... | |
 | Henry Hardinge (1st Viscount Hardinge.) - 1846 - 182 pagina’s
...of heavy calibre ; our infantry, using that never-failing weapon, the bayonet, whenever they stood. Night only saved them from worse disaster, for this...dust from the sandy plain, which yet more obscured every object. some hours, and only returned to its encampment after ascertaining that it had no enemy... | |
 | William Lewis M'Gregor - 1846 - 438 pagina’s
...heavy calibre ; our infantry using the never-failing weapon, the bayonet, whenever the enemy stood. Night only saved them from worse disaster, for this...dust from the sandy plain which yet more obscured every object." In reading a despatch, we are struck with the apparent simplicity and regularity of... | |
 | 1846 - 798 pagina’s
...heavy calibre; our infantrv . using that never-failing weapon the bayonet, whenever the enemy stood. Night only saved them from worse disaster ; for this...and a half of dim starlight, amidst a cloud of dust fron the sandy plain, which yet more obscured every object." Hunger, and thirst, and weariness vanished... | |
 | Henry Steinbach - 1846 - 206 pagina’s
...weapon, the bayonet, whenever the enemy stood. Night only saved them from worse disaster, for this stoat conflict was maintained during an hour and a half...dust from the sandy plain, which yet more obscured every object." The loss in this conflict was very severe. It consisted of 13 officers, 2 native officers,... | |
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