Grandmamma's [P. Schalch's] recollections and letters

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108. oldal - ... He was afterwards present at the demonstration before Nankin, in China, and he subsequently commanded the Royal Marine battalion in the brigade under General Jones, acting in conjunction with the French army at the bombardment and surrender of the forts at Bomarsund, Aland Isles, in 1854. From 1854 to 1857 he served as aide-de-camp to Her Majesty. He became major and lieutenant-colonel in 1851, and was promoted to colonel in 1854, major-general in 1857, lieutenantgeneral in 1865, and general...
69. oldal - ... distance, when the furnaces were opened, and the metal rushed into the moulds ; the humidity of which, as Schalch had intimated, immediately occasioned a dreadful explosion ; the water was converted into steam, and this, by its expansive force, caused the liquid...
16. oldal - ... in the Peninsula with the 28th Regt., and was present at the battle of Busaco, lines at Torres Vedras, affair of Campo Mayor, siege of Olivença, battles of Albuhera (severely wounded), Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, in front of Bayonne (llth to 13th Dec.), and Toulouse. Served also the campaign of 1815, and was present at the battle of Waterloo, where he was severely wounded by a shell which shattered his right arm, and broke his ribs. 105 Lieut. Wm. Smith (R. Artillery Drivers), served at Walcheren...

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