Memoirs of Major-General Sir Henry Havelock, K.C.B. |
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... Night of the 16th July . - The Order of the Day after the Battle . - The General's private Letters respecting it 267 CHAP . VIII . The Third Cawnpore Massacre . - Death of Sir Henry Lawrence . - Bithoor evacuated by the Nana . - Death ...
... Night of the 16th July . - The Order of the Day after the Battle . - The General's private Letters respecting it 267 CHAP . VIII . The Third Cawnpore Massacre . - Death of Sir Henry Lawrence . - Bithoor evacuated by the Nana . - Death ...
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... night with her assembled family . On the following morning , however , after breakfast , while Havelock was reading the Scriptures to her , in company with his sister Jane , she suddenly exclaimed , “ I am very ill , " and fell from her ...
... night with her assembled family . On the following morning , however , after breakfast , while Havelock was reading the Scriptures to her , in company with his sister Jane , she suddenly exclaimed , “ I am very ill , " and fell from her ...
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... night , and Sir Archibald Campbell ordered up some men of another corps to support it , but they were not prepared for the call after a carouse . " Then call out Have- lock's saints , " he exclaimed , " they are always sober and can be ...
... night , and Sir Archibald Campbell ordered up some men of another corps to support it , but they were not prepared for the call after a carouse . " Then call out Have- lock's saints , " he exclaimed , " they are always sober and can be ...
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... night , a cry of fire was raised , and she was suddenly awaked from slumber by the crackling of bamboos and the dour burnt , and her life endan- gered . 1836. ] MRS . HAVELOCK'S ESCAPE FROM FIRE . 49 48 [ CHAP . II . MEMOIRS OF SIR ...
... night , a cry of fire was raised , and she was suddenly awaked from slumber by the crackling of bamboos and the dour burnt , and her life endan- gered . 1836. ] MRS . HAVELOCK'S ESCAPE FROM FIRE . 49 48 [ CHAP . II . MEMOIRS OF SIR ...
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... night , to blow up the only gate which had not been walled up . Under his direction , nine hundred pounds of powder , enclosed in twelve bags , were conveyed during the night of the 22nd July to the Cabul gate , while the attention of ...
... night , to blow up the only gate which had not been walled up . Under his direction , nine hundred pounds of powder , enclosed in twelve bags , were conveyed during the night of the 22nd July to the Cabul gate , while the attention of ...
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78th Highlanders action advance Affghan Affghanistan Akbar Khan Allahabad Alumbagh appointed army arrival artillery attack battery battle Bengal Bithoor body Bombay bridge brigade British Cabul Calcutta camp campaign cantonment Captain Broadfoot Cawnpore Charbagh Colonel column command Commander-in-Chief considered corps crown 8vo defence Delhi despatch detachment Dinapore duty endeavoured enemy enemy's England entrenchment European Ferozepore fire force gallant garrison General's Government guns Gwalior Hardinge Havelock Henry Havelock Herat History honour hope horse India infantry insurgents Jellalabad letter Lieut Lord Lord Hardinge Lucknow ment miles military months morning Mungulwar mutiny Nana Sahib native Neill officers operations Oude Persian Peshawur placed position Post 8vo provinces reached received regiment reinforcements remarked Residency retire river sent Sepoys Serampore siege Sikhs Singh Sir Colin Sir Henry Sir James Outram Sir Robert Sale soldiers soon spirit success Sutlege tion town troops victory vols Woodcuts wounded
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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.