 Hundreds fell under this cannonade ; hundreds upon hundreds were drowned in attempting the perilous passage. Their awful slaughter, confusion, and dismay were such as would have excited compassion in the hearts of their generous conquerors, if the Khalsa...  The Anglo-Saxon Review - Pagina 2401899Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1846 - 816 pagina’s
...rendered hardly fordable. In their efforts to reach the right bank, through the deepened water, they suffered from our horse artillery a terrible carnage. Hundreds fell under this caunonade; hundreds upon bundrcds ivero drnwnpit in attempting the perilous [uisugc. Their awful slanghter,... | |
 | Henry Hardinge Hardinge (Viscount) - 1846 - 234 pagina’s
...rendered hardly fordable. In their efforts to reach the right bank through the deepened water, they suffered from our horse artillery a terrible carnage....generous conquerors, if the Khalsa troops had not, in the earlier part of the action, sullied their gallantry by slaughtering and barbarously mangling every... | |
 | 1846 - 840 pagina’s
...rendered hardly fordable. In their efforts to reach the right bank through the deepened water, they suffered from our horse artillery a terrible carnage....generous conquerors, if the Khalsa troops had not, in the earlier part of the action, sullied their gallantry by slaughtering and barbarously mangling every... | |
 | Henry Hardinge (1st Viscount Hardinge.) - 1846 - 182 pagina’s
...rendered hardly fordable. In their efforts to reach the right bank through the deepened water, they suffered from our horse artillery a terrible carnage....generous conquerors, if the Khalsa troops had not, in the earlier part of the action, sullied their gallantry by slaughtering and barbarously mangling every... | |
 | 1846 - 230 pagina’s
...rendered hardly fordable. In their efforts to reach the right bank through the deepened water, they suffered from our horse artillery a terrible carnage....generous conquerors, if the Khalsa troops had not, in the earlier part of the action, sullied their gallantry by slaughtering and barbarously mangling every... | |
 | Henry Thoby Prinsep - 1846 - 784 pagina’s
...rendered hardly fordable. In their efforts to reach the right bank, through the deepened water, they suffered from our horse artillery a terrible carnage....passage. " Their awful slaughter, confusion, and dismay," observes Sir H. Gough, " were such as would have excited compassion in the hearts of their generous... | |
 | 1846 - 580 pagina’s
...humane and generous as brave, could not but pause in his narrative of this dread encounter, to say — " Their awful slaughter, confusion, and dismay were...in the hearts of their generous conquerors, if the Kalsa troops had not, in the early part of the action, sullied their gallantry by slaughtering and... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1846 - 828 pagina’s
...with reluctance of the carnage which it was both his duty and tbat of his followers to inflict. " The awful slaughter, confusion, and dismay, were such...would have excited compassion in the hearts of their conquerors, if the Khalsa troops had not, in the early part of tbe action, sullied their gallantry... | |
 | William Lewis M'Gregor - 1846 - 438 pagina’s
...right bank through the deepened water, they suffered a terrible carnage from our horse artillery. " Hundreds fell under this cannonade; hundreds upon hundreds were drowned in attempting the Vast numbers 1 drowned. perilous passage." This awful slaughter, confusion, and dismay, were such as... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1847 - 1206 pagina’s
...rendered hardly fordablo. In their efforts to reach the right bank, through the deepened water, they suffered from our horse artillery a terrible carnage....excited compassion in the hearts of their generous conquerers, if the Khalsa troops had not, in the early part of the action, sullied their gallantry... | |
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