 | James Grant Duff - India - 1826 - 596 pages
...already partially occupied by the infantry. A mass of cavalry covered nearly the whole extent of it, and towards the city, endless streams of horsemen...Cambay, and have seen in perfection the approach of that rowMr. Elphinstone had personally reconnoitred the ground in front of the village of Khirkee, and ascertained... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1834 - 502 pages
...already partially occupied by the infantry. A mass of cavalry covered nearly the whole extent of it, and towards the city endless streams of horsemen were...can form the exact idea presented to the author at the sight of the Peshwa's army. It was towards the afternoon of a very sultry day, there was a dead... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - China - 1842 - 524 pages
...already partially occupied by the infantry. A mass of cavalry covered nearly the whole extent of it, and towards the city, endless streams of horsemen were pouring from every avenue." The additional description given by this intelligent writer, is too graphic a picture to be omitted.... | |
 | Mumbai (India) - 1852 - 400 pages
...a small eminence near Kirkee, he says ; " A mass of cavalry covered nearly the whole extent of it; and towards the city, endless streams of horsemen...Cambay, and have seen in perfection the approach of the roaring tide, can form the exact idea presented to the author at sight of the Peishwa's army. It... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1861 - 698 pages
...already partially occupied by the infantry. A mass of cavalry covered nearly the whole extent of it, and towards the city endless streams of horsemen were...can form the exact idea presented to the author at the sight of the Peshwa's army. It was towards the afternoon of a very sultry day, there was a dead... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1861 - 584 pages
...already partially occupied by the infantry. A mass of cavalry covered nearly the whole extent of it, and towards the city endless streams of horsemen were...have witnessed the Bore in the Gulf of Cambay, and hare seen in perfection the approach of that roaring tide, can form the exact idea presented to the... | |
 | William Freke Williams - 1864 - 886 pages
...the infantry, endless streams of horsemen, from every avenue near the city, poured upon the plain. " Those only who have witnessed the bore in the gulf...perfection the approach of that roaring tide, can have an idea of the scene which was presented by the approach of the Peishwa's army. It was towards... | |
 | Great Britain - 1875 - 1036 pages
...battle-field of Khirkee, to see the frame of what I have always thought a very good Wouvermans : — " Those only who have witnessed the bore in the Gulf...exact idea presented to the author at sight of the Peishwa's army. It was towards the afternoon of a very sultry day ; there was a dead calm, and no sound... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - India - 1876 - 314 pages
...battle-field of Khirkee, to see the frame of what I have always thought a very good Wouvermans : — " Those only who have witnessed the bore in the Gulf...exact idea presented to the author at sight of the Peishwa's army. It was towards the afternoon of a very sultry day ; there was a dead calm, and no sound... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - India - 1876 - 314 pages
...I have always thought a very good Wouvermans : — " Those only who have witnessed the bore in tho Gulf of Cambay, and have seen in perfection the approach...exact idea presented to the author at sight of the Peishwa's army. It was towards the afternoon of a very sultry day ; there was a dead calm, and no sound... | |
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Those only who have witnessed the Bore in the Gulf of Cambay, and have seen in perfection the approach of that roaring tide, can form the exact idea presented to the author at the sight of the Peshwa's army. 
