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advance arms army artillery assailants assault attack Austrian Balbi battalion battery battle Battle of Inkerman Battle of Jemappes Bavarian Black Watch boat body brave brigade Captain carried cavalry charge Colonel column command courage covered Cross of Valour danger dashed death Douro dragoons Dyas enemy enemy's escape feet fell flank followed foot force forward French front gallant Girondist grenadiers ground Guards hand head heard heavy fire heroic Heroism Highlanders honour horse hour Igala Indes-Orientales infantry Innsbruck instant killed ladder Lieutenant Lord Raglan mass midst musketry Napoleon Névé night numbers officer once party passed prisoners reached rear redoubts regiment remained retreat rifle river rock Royal rushed Russians saved seized shikaree ship shot shouted side Sir Peter Parker soldiers soon spontoon spot squadrons stood storm struck tiger tree troops turned Tyrol Tyrolese Victoria Cross village whilst wounded yards
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Page 126 - Regiment Staff-Surgeon Laing. Staff-Assistant Surgeon, Robertson. " ' Yet more ! the billows and the depths have more ! High hearts and brave are gathered to thy breast, They hear not now the booming waters' roar, The battle thunders will not break their rest. Keep thy red gold and gems, thou stormy grave— Give back the true and brave 1
Page 137 - light blue jackets embroidered with silver lace, were advancing on their left, at an easy gallop, towards the brow of the hill. A forest of lances glistened in their rear, and several squadrons of grey-coated dragoons moved up quickly to support them as they reached the summit The instant they came in sight the trumpets of
Page 137 - cavalry gave out the warning blast which told us all that in another moment we should see the shock of battle beneath our very eyes. Lord Raglan, all his staff and escort, and groups of officers, the Zouaves, French generals and officers, and bodies of French infantry on the height, were spectators of the scene, as
Page 21 - the charm from him the Bakatla on the following day made a huge bonfire over the carcase, which was declared to be that of the largest lion they had ever seen. Besides crunching the bone into splinters, he left eleven teeth-wounds on the upper part of my arm. A wound from this animal's
Page 74 - for a measure adopted by General Graham, such as has never perhaps been adopted before. Perceiving that matters were almost desperate, he had recourse to a desperate remedy, and ordered our own artillery to fire upon the breach. Nothing could be more exact or beautiful than this practice. Though our men stood only about
Page 138 - By sheer steel and sheer courage, Enniskillener and Scot were winning their desperate way right through the enemy's squadrons and already grey horses and red coats had appeared right at the rear of the second mass, when, with irresistible force, like one bolt from a bow, the
Page 21 - is probably produced in all animals killed by the carnivora; and if so it is a merciful provision by our benevolent Creator for lessening the pain of death. Turning round to relieve myself of the weight, as he had one paw on the back of my head, I saw his eyes directed to
Page 148 - November, 1854, at the battle of Inkerman, Captain Lushington again brought before the Commander-in-chief the services of the brave young sailor, saying, " I have much pleasure in again bringing Mr. Hewett's gallant conduct to your notice." (Sir S. Lushington to Vice-Admiral Sir JD Dundas, inclosed in despatches of November i, 1854, and
Page 73 - and desperate strife, without the one party being able to advance, or the other succeeding in driving them back. Things had continued in this state for nearly a quarter of an hour, when Major Snodgrass, at the head of the
Page 55 - the same hour, ever since the ist June; in agitation and uncertainty, which has gradually settled down into the last stern certainty, that of death. In the Abbaye Prison she occupied Charlotte Corday's apartment. Here in the Conciergerie she speaks with Riouffe and with ex-Minister Claviere; calls the beheaded Twentytwo* Nos amis, our friends, whom we are soon to follow. • The Girondists.