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" ... their whole force was driven from position after position with great slaughter, and the loss of seventeen pieces of artillery, some of them of heavy calibre; our infantry using that neverfailing weapon, the bayonet, whenever the enemy stood. Night... "
Battles of the Nineteenth Century - Page 630
by Archibald Forbes - 1896
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59

Scotland - 1816 - 838 pages
...heavy calibre; our infantry using that never-failing weapon the bayonet, whenever the enemy stood. Night only saved them from worse disaster ; for this...dust from the sandy plain, which yet more obscured every object." The more awful combats of Ferozeshah and Sobraon must not eclipse the brightness of...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 59

England - 1846 - 816 pages
...heavy calibre; our infantry using that never-failing weapon the bayonet, whenever the enemy stood. Night only saved them from worse disaster ; for this...hour and a half of dim starlight, amidst a cloud of tat 't: the sandy plain, which jet mr< scured every object." The more awful combats of fe shah and...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59

England - 1846 - 798 pages
...heavy calibre; our infantry using that never-failing weapon the bayonet, whenever the enemy stood. Night only saved them from worse disaster ; for this...during an hour and a half of dim starlight, amidst a clond of dust from the sandy plain, which yet more obscured every object." The more awful combats of...
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The War in India: Despatches of Lt.-Gen. Viscount Hardinge, Governor-general ...

Henry Hardinge Hardinge (Viscount) - India - 1846 - 234 pages
...of heavy calibre ; our infantry using that never-failing weapon, the bayonet, whenever they stood. Night only saved them from worse disaster, for this...dust from the sandy plain, which yet more obscured every object. I regret to say, this gallant and successful attack was attended with considerable loss...
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Bulletins and Other State Intelligence

1846 - 840 pages
...heavy calibre ; our infantry, using that never-failing weapon, th.-. bayonet, whenever the enemy stood. Night only saved them from worse disaster, for this...dust from the sandy plain, which yet more obscured every object. I regret to say, this gallant and successful attack was attended with considerable loss:...
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The War in India: Despatches of ...

Sikh War, 1845-1846 - 1846 - 230 pages
...of heavy calibre ; our infantry using that never-failing weapon, the bayonet, whenever they stood. Night only saved them from worse disaster, for this...dust from the sandy plain, which yet more obscured every object. I regret to say, this gallant and successful attack was attended with considerable loss...
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The War in India: Despatches of Visct. Hardinge, Lord Gough, Sir Harry Smith ...

Henry Hardinge (1st Viscount Hardinge.) - India - 1846 - 182 pages
...of heavy calibre ; our infantry, using that never-failing weapon, the bayonet, whenever they stood. Night only saved them from worse disaster, for this...dust from the sandy plain, which yet more obscured every object. some hours, and only returned to its encampment after ascertaining that it had no enemy...
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The History of the Sikhs: Containing the Lives of the Gooroos; the ..., Volume 2

William Lewis M'Gregor - Punjab (India) - 1846 - 438 pages
...heavy calibre ; our infantry using the never-failing weapon, the bayonet, whenever the enemy stood. Night only saved them from worse disaster, for this...dust from the sandy plain which yet more obscured every object." In reading a despatch, we are struck with the apparent simplicity and regularity of...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59

1846 - 798 pages
...heavy calibre; our infantrv . using that never-failing weapon the bayonet, whenever the enemy stood. Night only saved them from worse disaster ; for this...and a half of dim starlight, amidst a cloud of dust fron the sandy plain, which yet more obscured every object." Hunger, and thirst, and weariness vanished...
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The Punjaub: Being a Brief Account of the Country of the Sikhs

Henry Steinbach - Punjab (India) - 1846 - 206 pages
...weapon, the bayonet, whenever the enemy stood. Night only saved them from worse disaster, for this stoat conflict was maintained during an hour and a half...dust from the sandy plain, which yet more obscured every object." The loss in this conflict was very severe. It consisted of 13 officers, 2 native officers,...
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