Memoirs of Major-General Sir Henry Havelock, K.C.B. |
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... soldiers of the 13th were standing up , around Havelock , singing a Christian hymn amidst those idolatrous associations . It would be difficult to picture to the mind a more de- lightful or romantic episode in this scene of warfare and ...
... soldiers of the 13th were standing up , around Havelock , singing a Christian hymn amidst those idolatrous associations . It would be difficult to picture to the mind a more de- lightful or romantic episode in this scene of warfare and ...
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... soldier ; had we but his own good sword , and the spear of his enemy , his obsequies would be complete . " On the 5th ... soldiers would have done ; not that they evinced any disposition to go about , but they stood wasting ammunition in ...
... soldier ; had we but his own good sword , and the spear of his enemy , his obsequies would be complete . " On the 5th ... soldiers would have done ; not that they evinced any disposition to go about , but they stood wasting ammunition in ...
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... soldier's mite to- wards the building of your new chapel at Serampore . Had the British army on reaching Yandaboo manoeuvred in two columns on both banks of the Irawaddy , instead of turning diplomatists , I might by this time have been ...
... soldier's mite to- wards the building of your new chapel at Serampore . Had the British army on reaching Yandaboo manoeuvred in two columns on both banks of the Irawaddy , instead of turning diplomatists , I might by this time have been ...
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... soldier and the stern disciplinarian , as the most affectionate of husbands and the most exemplary of parents . But even on his wedding- day he manifested that resolute submission to the claims of duty which was the main spring of his ...
... soldier and the stern disciplinarian , as the most affectionate of husbands and the most exemplary of parents . But even on his wedding- day he manifested that resolute submission to the claims of duty which was the main spring of his ...
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... soldiers , I have little doubt that the 1st of November will see us under canvas . " But there was to be no war with Gwalior for twenty years . Lord William Bentinck's pacific administration was interrupted by only one brief expedition ...
... soldiers , I have little doubt that the 1st of November will see us under canvas . " But there was to be no war with Gwalior for twenty years . Lord William Bentinck's pacific administration was interrupted by only one brief expedition ...
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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.