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 ix
... with Cossacks -Commencement of the March - Order of March - The Baganak- Engagement between the Cavalry and Artillery and the Cossacks— Bivouac No Tents - Raglan and St. Arnaud , 28 CHAPTER IV . BATTLE OF THE ALMA . March resumed 1 *
... with Cossacks -Commencement of the March - Order of March - The Baganak- Engagement between the Cavalry and Artillery and the Cossacks— Bivouac No Tents - Raglan and St. Arnaud , 28 CHAPTER IV . BATTLE OF THE ALMA . March resumed 1 *
Pagina xii
... Artillery - The Author's Share in the Engagement - Desperate Rush of Russian Infantry - Conflict in the Two - Gun Battery -- Capture and Re - capture of British Guns - Duel of Artillery - Fresh Attack of Rus- sian Infantry -- The ...
... Artillery - The Author's Share in the Engagement - Desperate Rush of Russian Infantry - Conflict in the Two - Gun Battery -- Capture and Re - capture of British Guns - Duel of Artillery - Fresh Attack of Rus- sian Infantry -- The ...
Pagina xiii
... Artillery -- The best done under the Circumstances , • 120 CHAPTER XVI . THE HOSPITALS ON THE BOSPHORUS . Condition of a Sick Soldier - How removed to Hospital - Ambulances- The Author dispatched to Constantinople - The City in Summer ...
... Artillery -- The best done under the Circumstances , • 120 CHAPTER XVI . THE HOSPITALS ON THE BOSPHORUS . Condition of a Sick Soldier - How removed to Hospital - Ambulances- The Author dispatched to Constantinople - The City in Summer ...
Pagina 21
... artillery of this division halted at the base of the hills , near a Turkish vil- lage , so picturesque as to be worth describing . Its streets were green lanes , bordered by hedgerows of fine trees ; on each side of the lanes were ...
... artillery of this division halted at the base of the hills , near a Turkish vil- lage , so picturesque as to be worth describing . Its streets were green lanes , bordered by hedgerows of fine trees ; on each side of the lanes were ...
Pagina 26
... artillery camp ; some drawn by oxen , some by large two - humped camels . The army being thus landed , it will be well to describe shortly its composition and material . A division of infantry , under Major - General Cathcart , had ...
... artillery camp ; some drawn by oxen , some by large two - humped camels . The army being thus landed , it will be well to describe shortly its composition and material . A division of infantry , under Major - General Cathcart , had ...
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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...