Memoirs of Major-General Sir Henry Havelock, K.C.B. |
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... enemy . Great was his disappoint- ment , therefore , when Colonel Tidy , the head of the Ad- jutant's department , accosted him as he was proceeding to join the column , and stated that as his own position required him to be in ...
... enemy . Great was his disappoint- ment , therefore , when Colonel Tidy , the head of the Ad- jutant's department , accosted him as he was proceeding to join the column , and stated that as his own position required him to be in ...
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... enemy were at once repulsed . The army ad- vances to the capital . Peace with the Bur- mese . Havelock The army continued to advance towards the capital , and fought two engagements with the enemy at Napadee and Patanago , in both of ...
... enemy were at once repulsed . The army ad- vances to the capital . Peace with the Bur- mese . Havelock The army continued to advance towards the capital , and fought two engagements with the enemy at Napadee and Patanago , in both of ...
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... enemy were pre- pared to defend it to the last extremity , and the wisdom of Havelock's counsel was discovered when it was too late . It was impossible to breach the solid walls with the feeble artillery Sir John Keane had brought with ...
... enemy were pre- pared to defend it to the last extremity , and the wisdom of Havelock's counsel was discovered when it was too late . It was impossible to breach the solid walls with the feeble artillery Sir John Keane had brought with ...
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... enemy , driving them from rock to rock , while the main body pushed through the defile . This enfuriated onslaught of the enemy , in which General Sale received a serious wound , gave him a foretaste of the opposition he was likely to ...
... enemy , driving them from rock to rock , while the main body pushed through the defile . This enfuriated onslaught of the enemy , in which General Sale received a serious wound , gave him a foretaste of the opposition he was likely to ...
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... enemy . Boldness of the Every valley had poured out its armed pea- santry to attack the " Feringees . " They had ex- pected that the British troops would continue their progress enemy , and their defeat . 1841. ] CAPTAIN BROADFOOT . 87 ...
... enemy . Boldness of the Every valley had poured out its armed pea- santry to attack the " Feringees . " They had ex- pected that the British troops would continue their progress enemy , and their defeat . 1841. ] CAPTAIN BROADFOOT . 87 ...
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Page 100 - God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea ; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.