The Story of the Campaign: A Complete Narrative of the War in Southern Russia, Written in a Tent in the CrimeaGould and Lincoln, 1855 - 184 pagina's |
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Pagina vi
... Balaklava , leaving the siege to fill a paper by itself . You should have had it two mails ago , but I was prostrated just as I began to write , at the very end of September , by a severe attack of jaundice , a disorder that has been ...
... Balaklava , leaving the siege to fill a paper by itself . You should have had it two mails ago , but I was prostrated just as I began to write , at the very end of September , by a severe attack of jaundice , a disorder that has been ...
Pagina x
... - Narrow Escape - Mackenzie's Farm- Pursuit of the Enemy - Spoils taken - Russian Prisoners - March to the Tchernaya - Encampment - All's Well that ends Well , 47 52 PAGE CHAPTER VIII . OCCUPATION OF BALAKLAVA . Ravages of X CONTENTS .
... - Narrow Escape - Mackenzie's Farm- Pursuit of the Enemy - Spoils taken - Russian Prisoners - March to the Tchernaya - Encampment - All's Well that ends Well , 47 52 PAGE CHAPTER VIII . OCCUPATION OF BALAKLAVA . Ravages of X CONTENTS .
Pagina xi
... Balaklava threatened by a Russian Force - Sortie on the French Trenches , . 67 CHAPTER XI . ATTACK ON BALAKLAVA . Position of General Liprandi's Army - Attack on the Turkish Outposts --- The Russian Cavalry - View of the Battle from the ...
... Balaklava threatened by a Russian Force - Sortie on the French Trenches , . 67 CHAPTER XI . ATTACK ON BALAKLAVA . Position of General Liprandi's Army - Attack on the Turkish Outposts --- The Russian Cavalry - View of the Battle from the ...
Pagina xii
... Balaklava and opposite Inkermann strengthened - What a " Re- doubt " is - Ruins of Inkermann - Reënforcement of the Russians , PAGE 81 CHAPTER XIII . BATTLE OF INKERMANN . The Fifth of November - Movements of the Russians concealed by ...
... Balaklava and opposite Inkermann strengthened - What a " Re- doubt " is - Ruins of Inkermann - Reënforcement of the Russians , PAGE 81 CHAPTER XIII . BATTLE OF INKERMANN . The Fifth of November - Movements of the Russians concealed by ...
Pagina xiv
... Balaklava -- Monotony of the Siege unbroken - Failure of a French Expedition into the Valley of the Tchernaya - Attack on Eupatoria - Hill seized by the Russians - New Work constructed on it - Assaulted by the French - Their Repulse ...
... Balaklava -- Monotony of the Siege unbroken - Failure of a French Expedition into the Valley of the Tchernaya - Attack on Eupatoria - Hill seized by the Russians - New Work constructed on it - Assaulted by the French - Their Repulse ...
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The Story of the Campaign: A Complete Narrative of the War in Southern ... Sir Edward Bruce Hamley Volledige weergave - 1855 |
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allied Alma amid ammunition arms army artillery Balaklava Balbek battery battle battle of Inkermann body Bosphorus brigade British caïques camp campaign cavalry cliff close cloth column coppice Cossacks covered Crimea crossed dead distance Duke of Cambridge encamped enemy enemy's England English Eupatoria fire flank force front gabions garrison gray ground Guards guns heights hill horses hospitals HUGH MILLER hundred yards infantry Inkermann inner harbor intrenchment Kamara Katcha killed land left attack light division looking Lord Raglan Malakoff Mammelon miles night officers opened opposite outposts parallel parapet passed plain position ravine reader rear reënforcements regiments retired ridge rifle-pits right attack river round shot Russian Scutari Sebastopol second division seen shell shelter ships shot sians side siege Silistria skirmishers slope soldiers spot steamer steep Tchernaya tents thousand troops Turks valley Varna village wagons Woronzoff road wounded
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Pagina 78 - Russian force was before them ; a body of cavalry interposed to cut off their retreat ; and, assailed on every side by every arm, and their ranks utterly broken, they were compelled to fight their way through, and to regain our position under the same artillery fire that had crashed into their advance. Singly, and in two's and three's, these gallant horsemen returned, some on foot, some wounded, some supporting a wounded comrade. The same fire which had shattered their ranks had reached the heavy...
Pagina 71 - The interest excited by a contest of artillery, without decided advantage on either side, soon languishes ; and in a few days the thunder of the bombardment was almost unheeded. But the troops in the trenches and batteries were hardly worked, and exposed by day incessantly to a tremendous fire. The space in the magazines in our batteries was at first insufficient to hold ammunition for the day's consumption, and to take in fresh supplies formed one of the most trying duties which artillerymen can...