Up Among the Pandies: Or, A Year's Service in IndiaRoutledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1859 - 360 páginas |
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Página 85
... Sikhs keep watch and ward . By no means destitute of incident has been our journey thus far - incidents of the nature of the upsets of carts down steep banks , and the consequent discomfort , not to say injury of the burly warriors ...
... Sikhs keep watch and ward . By no means destitute of incident has been our journey thus far - incidents of the nature of the upsets of carts down steep banks , and the consequent discomfort , not to say injury of the burly warriors ...
Página 95
... Sikhs whom he commanded were rather to be feared than trusted - when the match which self - devotion had prepared to fire the magazine , and so blow the fort and all within it 66 * Now commanding the Ferozepore Regiment of Sikhs . up ...
... Sikhs whom he commanded were rather to be feared than trusted - when the match which self - devotion had prepared to fire the magazine , and so blow the fort and all within it 66 * Now commanding the Ferozepore Regiment of Sikhs . up ...
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... Sikh irregular cavalry , composed of big - whiskered , swarthy , stalwart men , each one a picture down to the waist , but with something wrong about their legs - which are decidedly of the broomstick order- spurring about in every ...
... Sikh irregular cavalry , composed of big - whiskered , swarthy , stalwart men , each one a picture down to the waist , but with something wrong about their legs - which are decidedly of the broomstick order- spurring about in every ...
Página 140
... some fifteen thousand troops , English and Sikhs , full of ardour , life , and hope . Nor did this force , large as it may appear , include all the FORCE ENGAGED . 141 troops who were to be employed 140 UP AMONG THE PANDIES .
... some fifteen thousand troops , English and Sikhs , full of ardour , life , and hope . Nor did this force , large as it may appear , include all the FORCE ENGAGED . 141 troops who were to be employed 140 UP AMONG THE PANDIES .
Página 153
... Sikh cavalry , -who know not steel scabbards and their attendant jingle , but who wear leather sheaths , wherein the swords do not become blunt and dull , and who , though perchance they might fail to gladden the hearts of those good ...
... Sikh cavalry , -who know not steel scabbards and their attendant jingle , but who wear leather sheaths , wherein the swords do not become blunt and dull , and who , though perchance they might fail to gladden the hearts of those good ...
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1st Bengal Fusiliers Allahabad appearance arrived baggage Bagh bank Bareilly beautiful behold Bengal Bheesties body bright buildings bullets BULLOCK-TRAIN bullocks Calcutta camels camp capture case-shot cavalry Cawnpore cheer cheroots column dark death Delhi desperate doolies dust elephants endeavour enemy English excitement eyes fact fcap fcap 8vo feeling fight fire force Fyzabad glittering Goomtee guns hands heat Hindoo HISTORY horse artillery India infantry Iron Bridge Kaiserbagh legs look Lucknow Maun Singh miles minarets morning mutiny native Nawab-gunge night noise occasion officers once one's Oude Outram palace palanquin Pandy pariah dogs passed picket pleasant post 8vo rain reader regiment Rifle river round Royal Artillery Royal Welsh Fusiliers scene seemed Sepoys shot side Sikhs Sir Colin soldiers sort streets syces tents trees troops tulwar village walls weary whole wounded wretched
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