 Sutlej, which a sudden rise of seven inches had rendered hardly fordable. In their efforts to reach the right bank through the deepened water, they suffered from our horse artillery a terrible carnage. Hundreds fell under this cannonade; hundreds upon...  Annual Register - Sivu 296muokkaaja - 1847Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Joseph Irving - 1871 - 1064 sivua
...seven inches had rendered hardly fordable. In their efforts to reach the right bank through the deep water they suffered from our horse artillery a terrible...perilous passage. Their awful slaughter, confusion, and dismaywere such as would have excited compassion in the hearts of their generous conquerors, if the... | |
 | Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - 1871 - 394 sivua
...Horse Artillery. Hundreds fell under the cannonade. " Hundreds upon hundreds," wrote Sir Hugh Gough, " were drowned in attempting the perilous passage. Their...excited compassion in the hearts of their generous conquerors, if the Ehalsa troops had not, in the earlier part of the action, sullied their gallantry... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1873 - 698 sivua
...of boats, and into the Sutledge, which a sudden rise of seven inches had rendered scarcely fordable. In their efforts to reach the right bank through the deepened water, they suffered a terrible carnage from our horseartillery. Hun'dreds fell under this cannonade; hundreds upon hundreds... | |
 | Joseph Irving - 1880 - 1066 sivua
...seven inches had rendered hardly fordable. In their efforts to reach the right bank through the deep the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and against conquerors, if the Khalsa troops had not, in the early part of the action, sullied their gallantry... | |
 | James Grant - 1880 - 620 sivua
...were swept away by the current. " Hundreds fell under this cannonade," says Sir Hugh Cough's despatch; "hundreds upon hundreds were drowned in attempting...excited compassion in the hearts of their generous conquerors, if the Khalsa troops had not, in the earlier part of the action, sullied their gallantry... | |
 | Joseph Irving - 1880 - 1064 sivua
...seveu inches had rendered hardly fordable. In their efforts to reach the right bank through the deep water they suffered from our horse artillery a terrible carnage. Hundreds fell under thi cannonade ; hundreds upon hundreds wen drowned in attempting the perilous passage. Their awful... | |
 | 1882 - 766 sivua
...butcher's bill " shews that the Native regiments ft*tht to wtli *t la their European comrades as ihi». the deepened water, they suffered from our horse artillery...excited compassion in the hearts of their generous conquerors, if the Khalsa troops had not, in the earlier part of the action, sullied their gallantry... | |
 | George Bruce Malleson - 1883 - 464 sivua
...is confirmed by Edwardes, Calcutta Review vol. vi., pp. 295, 296. Gou^'h writes in his despatch : " In their efforts to reach the right bank through the...suffered from our horse artillery a terrible carnage." a decisive battle, must be considered not by itself, but as the complement to and natural consequence... | |
 | 1883 - 648 sivua
...This confirmed by Edwardes, Calcutta Review, vol. vi., pp. 295, 296. Goush writes in his despatch : " In their efforts to reach the right bank through the...suffered from our horse artillery a terrible carnage." The battle gained, the English army crossed the Satlaj, and on the 12th occupied the fort of Kasiir... | |
 | George Bruce Malleson - 1885 - 516 sivua
...is confirmed by Edwardes, Calcutta Rcriev vol. vi., pp. 295, 296. Gough writes in his despatch : " In their efforts to reach the right bank through the deepened water, they suffered from our horsa artillery a terrible carnage." a decisive battle, must be considered not by itself, but as the... | |
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