 | English literature - 1858 - 788 pages
...Perhaps in no action that ever was fought was llie superior power of arrangement, moral force, persunal daring, and physical strength of the European over...rebels fought well; many of them did not flinch from a hand-to-hand encounter with our troops; they stood well to their guns, served them with accuracy; but... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1858 - 610 pages
...routed the rebels, who numbered at least live thousand men. The author of the Indian mutiny says : Perhaps in no action that ever was fought was the...disproportionate excess in number, they were beaten. But the general's gratification at the victory was sadly neutralized by the shocking sight presented... | |
 | William Brock - British - 1862 - 220 pages
...entrenched in their front, without cavalry, and with an artillery of inferior weight, defeated five thousand native troops, armed and trained by our own officers!...encounter with our troops; they stood well to their guns, and served them with accuracy ; but yet, in spite of this, of their strong position, of their disproportionate... | |
 | William Butler - India - 1872 - 556 pages
...fierce contest. It is believed that " in no action ever fought was the superior power of arrangerneiit, moral force, personal daring, and physical strength of the European over the Asiatic more apparent" than in this case, for the rebels fought hard and well, but they had met far more than their match,... | |
 | William Brock - India - 1876 - 362 pages
...front, strongly entrenched, without cavalry, and with an artillery of inferior weight, defeated 5,000 native troops, armed and trained by our own officers....did not flinch from a hand to hand encounter with onr troops; they stood well to their guns, served them with accuracy ; but yet, in spite of this, of... | |
 | Edwin Hodder - 1878 - 380 pages
...officers. " Perhaps in no action that ever was fought," says the author of " The Indian Mutiny," " was the superior power of arrangement, moral force,...rebels fought well ; many of them did not flinch from a hand-to-hand encounter with our troops; they stood well to their guns, served them with accuracy ;... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1858 - 610 pages
...heads, a merciless enemy in their front, strongly intrenched, without cavalry, and with an artillery oi' inferior weight, defeated 5000 native troops, armed...rebels fought well ; many of them did not flinch from a hand-to-hand encounter with our troops ; they stood well to their guns, served them with accuracy ;... | |
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... native troops, armed and trained by our own officers. Perhaps in no action that ever was fought was the superior power of arrangement, moral force, personal daring, and physical strength of the European over the Asiatic, more apparent. The rebels... 