 | Charles Allen (of the Bengal civil service.), George Bruce Malleson - India - 1858 - 256 pages
...with great distress : many officers and soldiers also were sunstruck from exposure to the hot-winds. The dead bodies were thrown into a well outside the...middle of the entrenchment, and the enemy kept up their fii>3 so incessantly both day and night, that it was as much as giving a man's life-blood to go and... | |
 | History - 1858 - 1010 pages
...to await the time when the fatigue party usually went round to carry the dead to the well, as above, for there was scarcely room to shelter the living ; the buildings were so sadly riddled that every safe corner available •was considered a great object. " The enemy now commenced... | |
 | Noah Alfred Chick - India - 1859 - 1010 pages
...to await the time when the fatigue party usually went round to carry the dead to the well, as above, for there was scarcely room to shelter the living, the buildings were so sadly riddled that every safe corner available was considered a great object. The enemy now commenced... | |
 | George Dodd - China - 1859 - 664 pages
...verandah amongst the rest, to await the time when the fatigne-pavty usually went round to carry the dead to the well ; for there was scarcely room to shelter the living.' During all these days, Cawnpore itself, and the country between it and the intrenchment, became prey... | |
 | W. J. Shepherd - Cawnpore - 1879 - 306 pages
...verandah amidst the ruins, to await the time when the fatigue party usually went round to carry the dead to the well, for there was scarcely room to shelter the living, and the buildings were so sadly riddled that every safe corner available was considered a great object.... | |
 | James Grant - 1880 - 620 pages
...verandah, amongst the ruins, to await the time when the fatigue party usually went round to carry the dead to the well, for there was scarcely room to shelter the living. The buildings were so sadly riddled that every safe comer available was considered a great object." The enemy now betook... | |
 | George Temple - India - 1890 - 482 pages
...verandah amongst the rains, to await the time when the fatigue party usually went round to carry the dead to the well ; for there was scarcely room to shelter the living. The buildings were so riddled that every safe corner available was considered a great object." During this time the soldiers made... | |
 | Sir George Forrest - India - 1904 - 594 pages
...to await the time when the fatigue party usually went round to carry the dead to the well as above ; for there was scarcely room to shelter the living : the buildings were so sadly riddled that every safe corner available was considered a great object." Soon there was no safe... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1858 - 1056 pages
...await the time when the fatigue party usually went round to carry the dead to the •well, as above, for there was scarcely room to shelter the living ; the buildings were so sadly riddled 284] India.] [285 that every safe corner available was considered a great object. " The... | |
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I have seen the dead bodies of officers and tenderlybrought up young ladies of rank (colonels' and captains' daughters), put outside in the veranda in the rain, to await the time when the fatigue party usually went round to carry the dead to the well,... 