 | Thomas Fourness Wilson - 1858 - 252 pages
...their numbers. They were so near the enemy that conversation could be carried on between them ; and every effort, persuasion, promise, and threat was...laid before Major-General Sir James Outram, GCB, who Las promised to promote them. Those of the European force will be transmitted in due course for the... | |
 | Charles Ball - India - 1858 - 750 pages
...their numbers. They were so near the enemy that conversation could be carried on between them ; and every effort, persuasion, promise, and threat was...have been laid before Major-general Sir James Outram, KCB, who has promised to promote them. Those of the European force will be transmitted in due course... | |
 | History - 1858 - 1010 pages
...their numbers. They wore so near the enemy, that conversation could be carried on between them ; and every effort, persuasion, promise, and threat, was...to in vain, to seduce them from their allegiance to tho handful of Europeans who, in all probability, would have been sacrificed by their desertion." Well... | |
 | India - 1858 - 486 pages
...their numbers. They were so near the enemy that conversation could be carried on between them ; and every effort, persuasion, promise, and threat was alternately resorted to in vain, to seduce them frota their allegiance to the handful of Europeans, who, in all probability, would have been sacrificed... | |
 | Noah Alfred Chick - India - 1859 - 1010 pages
...their numbers. They were so near the enemy that conversation could be carried on between them; and every effort, persuasion, promise, and threat was...particularly distinguished themselves, have been laid before Major General Sir Jair.es Outram, GCB, who haa promised to promote them. Those of the European force... | |
 | George Dodd - China - 1859 - 668 pages
...their numbers. They were so near the enemy that conversation could be carried on between them; and every effort, persuasion, promise, and threat, was...probability, would have been sacrificed by their desertion.' MB COLVIN, Lieutenant-governor of Northwest Provinces. CHAPTER XX, MINOR CONFLICTS: SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER.... | |
 | George Dodd - China - 1859 - 664 pages
...their numbers. They were so near the enemy that conversation could be carried on between them; and every effort, persuasion, promise, and threat, was...Europeans, who, in all probability, would have been sacrifieed by their desertion,' MR COLT», Lieutenant-governor of Northwest Provinces. CHAPTER XX,... | |
 | 1860 - 1518 pages
...their numbers. They were so near the enemy that conversation could be carried on between them; and every effort, persuasion, promise, and threat was...themselves have been laid before Major-General Sir J. Outram, GCB, who has promised to promote them. Those of the European force will be transmitted in... | |
 | sir James Outram (1st bart.) - 1860 - 434 pages
...conversation could be carried on between them; and every effort, persuasion, promise, and thi-eat, was alternately resorted to in vain, to seduce them...particularly distinguished themselves have been laid before Major-Goneral Sir James Outram, GCB, who has promised to promote them. Those of the European force... | |
 | Henry Beveridge - India - 1862 - 796 pages
...their numbers. They were so near the enemy that conversation could be carried on between them ; and every effort, persuasion, promise, and threat was...alternately resorted to in vain, to seduce them from the handful of Europeans who, in all probability, would have been sacrificed by their desertion." This... | |
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... indifferently fed and worse housed. They were exposed — especially the 13th Regiment — under the gallant Lieutenant Aitken, to a most galling fire of round shot and musketry, which materially decreased their numbers. They were so near the enemy... 
