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10th Hussars 1st and 2nd 1st Batt 2nd Batt 3rd Foot Guards action Africa April arms army attack awarded bar inscribed Battalions Battery battle bears Black Watch Bombay bust Cabul campaign Captain capture Cavalry centre Ciudad Rodrigo Colonel command companies Connaught Rangers cross decoration defence diameter edge enamelled enemy engaged engraved exergue expedition fighting fleet following regiments Foot Guards force Fort Detroit fought French frigate frigate Fusiliers Ghuznee gold medal Goorkas guns Highlanders Hussars inscription July June killed King King's King's German Legion Lancers laurel Lieutenant Light Dragoons Light Infantry Lord Major-General March medal with bar medals were issued military Native Infantry Naval Brigade obverse officers Peninsular Peninsular War Punjab Queen Victoria Regt reverse ribbon Roman capitals Royal Artillery Royal Irish Sappers Sappers and Miners Scots seamen SERVICE MEDAL ships siege Sikhs silver medal soldiers squadrons struck Suakin SUDAN suspended took troops victory Waterloo Wellington wounded wreath
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Page 145 - Guards, and the 5th Dragoon Guards rushed at the remnants of the first line of the enemy, went through it as though it were made of pasteboard, and, dashing on the second body of Russians, as they were still disordered by the terrible assault of the Greys and their companions, put them to utter rout.
Page 40 - ... like a loosened cliff went headlong down the steep ; the rain flowed after in streams discoloured with blood, and eighteen hundred unwounded men, the remnant of six thousand unconquerable British soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill.
Page 144 - Enniskilleners pierced through the dark masses of Russians. The shock was but for a moment. There was a clash of steel and a light play of sword-blades in the air, and then the Greys and the redcoats disappear in the midst of the shaken and quivering columns.
Page 144 - The Russians advanced down the hill at a slow canter, which they changed to a trot, and at last nearly halted. Their first line was at least double the length of ours — it was three times as deep.
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Page 36 - All the passages in this extraordinary battle were so broadly marked, that observations would be useless. The contemptible feebleness of La Pena furnished a surprising contrast to the heroic vigour of Graham, whose attack was an inspiration rather than a resolution, so wise, so sudden was the decision, so swift, so conclusive was the execution.
Page 37 - ... flashing of pistols indicated some extraordinary occurrence. Suddenly the multitude was violently agitated, an English shout arose, the mass was rent asunder, and Norman Ramsay burst forth at the head of his battery, his horses breathing fire, and stretching like greyhounds along the plain, his guns bounding like things of no weight...