| William Brock - 1858 - 330 oldal
...in India. "The night of the 21st December," wrote Sir Henry Hardinge, "was the most extraordinary of my life. I bivouacked with the men without food or covering, and our nights are bitter cold. A buming camp in our front, our brave fellows lying down under a heavy cannonade, which continued during... | |
| Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence - 1859 - 528 oldal
...right hon. Baronet then read as follows : — "'The night of the 21st was the most extraordinary of my life. I bivouacked with the men, without food or covering, and our nights arc bitter cold. A burning camp in our front, our brave fellows lying down under a. heavy cannonade,... | |
| Philadelphia internat. exhib, 1876 - 1876 - 960 oldal
...to the Army of the Sutlej, March 3, 1846 : — " The night of the 21st was the most extraordinary of my life. I bivouacked with the men without food or covering, and our nights are bitterly cold. A burning camp is in our front, our brave fellows were lying down under a heavy cannonade.... | |
| Albert Augustus Gore - 1879 - 212 oldal
...wrote Viscount Hardinge, after Ferozeshah, " with the men, without food or covering ; our nights were bitter cold, a burning camp in our front, our brave fellows lying down under a heavy cannonade continuing the whole night, mixed with the wild cries of the Sikhs, our English hurrahs, the tramp... | |
| James Grant - 1880 - 620 oldal
...zist was the most extraordinary of my life," wrote the latter in a private letter to his family. " I bivouacked with the men, without food or covering,...brave fellows lying down under a heavy cannonade, mixed with the wild cries of the Sikhs, our British hurrah, the tramp of men, and the groans of the... | |
| Robert Watson Frazer - 1896 - 440 oldal
...Governor-General, in a letter to Sir Robert Peel, describes the weird scene which the battle-field disclosed. " A burning camp in our front, our brave fellows lying...heavy cannonade, which continued during the whole of the night, mixed with the wild cries of the Sikhs, our English hurrah, the tramp of men, and the... | |
| Charles Cooper King - 1897 - 508 oldal
...GovernorGeneral's staff had been killed or wounded, but he wrote cheerfully to his family and described how " I bivouacked with the men, without food or covering,...brave fellows lying down under a heavy cannonade, mixed with the wild cries of the Sikhs, our British hurrah ! the tramp of men, and the groans of the... | |
| 1899 - 300 oldal
...grape and canister. The horrors of the night may be described in the Governor-General's own words : I bivouacked with the men without food or covering, and our nights were bitterly cold. A burning camp in front, our brave fellows lying down under a heavy cannonade which... | |
| Sir John James Hood Gordon - 1904 - 308 oldal
...the day, graphically described the situation : " The night of the 21st was the most extraordinary of my life. I bivouacked with the men without food or covering, and our nights are very cold — a burning camp in our front, our brave fellows lying down under a heavy cannonade, which... | |
| 1878 - 548 oldal
...wrote Viscount Hardinge, after Ferozeshah, " with the men, without food or covering ; our nights were bitter cold, a burning camp in our front, our brave fellows lying down under a heavy cannonade continuing the whole night, mixed with the wild cries of the Sikhs, our English hurrahs, the tramp... | |
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