 We are making slow progress in the city. The fact is, the troops are utterly demoralized by hard work and hard drink, I grieve to say. For the first time in my life, I have had to see English soldiers refuse repeatedly to follow their officers. Greville,...  On the Face of the Waters - Sivu 400tekijä(t) Flora Annie Webster Steel - 1903 - 432 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | William Stephen Raikes Hodson - 1859 - 398 sivua
...The fact is, the troops are utterly demoralized by hard work and hard drink, I grieve to say. For the first time in my life, I have had to see English soldiers refuse repeatedly to follow their officers. Greville, Jacob, Nicholson, and Speke were all sacrificed to this. We were out with all the cavalry... | |
 | William Stephen Raikes Hodson - 1859 - 414 sivua
...The fact is, the troops are utterly demoralized by hard work and hard drink, I grieve to say. For the first time in my life, I have had to see English soldiers refuse repeatedly to follow their officers. Greville, Jacob, Nicholson, and Speke were all sacrificed to this. We were out with all the cavalry... | |
 | William Stephen Raikes Hodson - 1859 - 404 sivua
...The fact is, the troops are utterly demoralized by hard work and hard drink, I grieve to say. For the first time in my life, I have had to see English soldiers refuse repeatedly to follow their officers. Greville, Jacob, Nicholson, and Speke were all sacrificed to this. We were out with all the cavalry... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1859 - 476 sivua
...The fact is, the troops are utterly demoralized by hard work and hard drink, I grieve to say. For the first time in my life, I have had to see English soldiers refuse repeatedly to follow their officers. Greville, Jacob, Nicholson, and Speke were all sacrificed to this. " Sept. 22d. — In the Royal Palace,... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1879 - 612 sivua
...suffering the breaches to be made and won with but feeble opposition. Hodson asserts, that the troops were "utterly demoralised by hard work and hard drink." " For the first time in my life," he adds, " I have had to see English soldiers refuse repeatedly to follow their officers. Greville,*... | |
 | William Stephen Raikes Hodson - 1883 - 412 sivua
...The fact is, the troops are utterly demoralised by hard work and hard drink, I grieve to say. For the first time in my life I have had to see English soldiers refuse repeatedly to follow their officers. Greville, Jacob, Nicholson, and Speke were all sacrificed to this. We were out with all the cavalry... | |
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