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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrases16th Lancers 1st Brigade 3rd Infantry Division action advance Afghans Aliwal amongst arrived attack bank batteries battle battle of Aliwal BATTLE OF SOBRAON Bengal British army British forces British government Buddewal cantonments Capt Caubul command crossed the Sutlej ditto enemy enemy's Ensign entrenchments Ferozepore Ferozeshuhur fire flank fords front frontier gallant garrison Ghoolab Singh Goorcheras Governor-general guns Gwalior H.M. 50th Regt horse artillery howitzers Hureeka India Infantry Division irregular John Littler Jugraon jungle KILLED AND WOUNDED Kussoor Ladwa Lahore Lieut Lieut.-Col Loodiana main column ment Merut miles military Moodkee morning musketry Native Cavalry Native Infantry nearly night numbers occupied ORDNANCE CAPTURED palanquins party pickets position pounder protected Sikh Punjaub Rajah reached regiment reserve force retreat river Runjeet severely Sikh army Sikh forces Sir Harry Smith Sir Hugh Gough Sir John sirdars Sirmoor slightly Sobraon soldiers Staff storm Sutlej tion troops village whilst whole Popular passagesPage 9 - We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him, — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. Page 274 - Singh engages never to take, or retain in his service any British subject, nor the subject of any European or American State, without the consent of the British Government. Page 11 - ... Chief Engineer, methodically blew up the massive buildings with gunpowder. "War, even under so mild and just a commander as Pollock, is a terrible thing," commented Mackenzie, "and many a guiltless and friendly Hindu and Kuzzilbash was involved in the punishment which befel the bloodstained Caubuli." "This has always appeared to me rather a wanton mode of exciting the hostility of the harmless Bunnists," wrote Captain McKinnon, "to punish the unfortunate house owners of the bazaars was not dignified... Page 205 - Artillery, Commanding Artillery, 1st Division, Army of the Sutlej. NB The quantity of ammunition captured with the artillery, and found in the camp of the enemy, is beyond accurate calculation, consisting of shot, shell, grape, and small arm ammunition of every description and for every calibre. The powder found in the limbers and waggons of the guns and in the magazines of the entrenched camp has been destroyed to prevent accidents. Six large hackery loads have also been appropriated to the destruction... Page 206 - ... ammunition of every description, and for every calibre. The powder found in the limbers and waggons of the guns, and in the magazines of the entrenched camp, has been destroyed, to prevent accidents. Six large hackery loads have also been appropriated to the destruction of forts in the neighbourhood. As many of the shot and shell as time would admit of being collected have been brought into the Park — the shells, being useless, have been thrown into the river. The shot will be appropriated... Page 184 - ... mortal aid. Pain, in all its degrees and hideous varieties was forcibly portrayed on every square yard of earth which surrounded me ; and passing from sufferer to sufferer, I felt, or fancied I felt, each patient's eye following wistfully the movements of such fortunate visitants as were exempted from the services of the knife or lancet, and sometimes dwelling reproachfully on the useless spectator of their sufferings. I felt it was almost a sacrilege to remain in such a place without being useful... Page 183 - Outside the hospital tents were laid the bodies of those who had recently died ; many in the contorted positions in which the rigid hand of death had fixed them ; others more resembling sleep than death, had calmly passed away, struck down in full vigour and robust bodily health, when the human frame, it was natural to suppose, would have struggled more fiercely with its arch enemy : but... Page 297 - The borrower must return this item on or before > the last date stamped below. If another user places a recall for this item, the borrower will ? be notified of the need for an earlier return. Non-receipt of overdue notices does not exempt the borrower from overdue fines. Harvard College Widener Library Cambridge, MA 02138 617-495-2413 Thank you for helping to preserve library collections at Harvard. Page 132 - Many of these guns have long Persian inscriptions on them, and very old dates; some are highly ornamented, carriages in good repair, and closely assimilating to those in use with the Bengal artillery, the whole well fitted for post guns ; the metal in these guns is much heavier than those of a similar calibre in use in the Bengal artillery. Page 95 - ... the Sutlej and Moodkee, and the longer towards Ferozepore and the open country. The plains, as at Moodkee, were covered with low jhow jungle, which added to the difficulty of the advance, which was made in four divisions; the left wing under the direction of the Governor-General (Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Hardinge), who had volunteered his services as second in command. One hundred guns of the enemy, nearly one-half of battering * See memoir of Colonel Sir John McCaskill in Appendix, page... Bibliographic information
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