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In the morning , attack , the enemy they reoccupied it , and we attacked it again at daylight , and carried it with ease , and with little loss . I got a slight touch on the knee , from which I have felt no inconvenience , and I have ...
In the morning , attack , the enemy they reoccupied it , and we attacked it again at daylight , and carried it with ease , and with little loss . I got a slight touch on the knee , from which I have felt no inconvenience , and I have ...
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We may add that Baird carried the place with great gallantry by a midday assault , and applied in the evening to be relieved for a short time that he might report the details of his success in person . Colonel Wellesley followed him ...
We may add that Baird carried the place with great gallantry by a midday assault , and applied in the evening to be relieved for a short time that he might report the details of his success in person . Colonel Wellesley followed him ...
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Mr. Gleig says , ' His labours continued at Trincomalee till the resources of the country were exhausted , and then , on his own responsibility , he carried the armament to Bom- bay , as being better able to supply its wants and nearer ...
Mr. Gleig says , ' His labours continued at Trincomalee till the resources of the country were exhausted , and then , on his own responsibility , he carried the armament to Bom- bay , as being better able to supply its wants and nearer ...
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I lost an enormous number of men : 170 officers were killed and wounded , and upwards of 2000 non - commissioned officers and pri- vates ; but we carried all before us . We took their guns , which were in the first line , and were fired ...
I lost an enormous number of men : 170 officers were killed and wounded , and upwards of 2000 non - commissioned officers and pri- vates ; but we carried all before us . We took their guns , which were in the first line , and were fired ...
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... we shall carry it on with great advantage during the rainy season . ' And again , at p . 169 , in a letter to General Stuart , the ' rivers that rise from the Western Ghauts will soon fill ; crossing them , to the native armies ...
... we shall carry it on with great advantage during the rainy season . ' And again , at p . 169 , in a letter to General Stuart , the ' rivers that rise from the Western Ghauts will soon fill ; crossing them , to the native armies ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 120 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1866 |
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