The Campaign in the Crimea: An Historical Sketch, Volúmenes1-2P. and D. Colnaghi, 1855 |
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... Heavy Cavalry Brigade Second Charge of the Guards at the Battle of Inkermann Lord Raglan's Head - Quarters at Khutor Karagatch . Distant View of Lord Raglan's Head - Quarters before Sebastopol • A Quiet Day in the Diamond Battery ...
... Heavy Cavalry Brigade Second Charge of the Guards at the Battle of Inkermann Lord Raglan's Head - Quarters at Khutor Karagatch . Distant View of Lord Raglan's Head - Quarters before Sebastopol • A Quiet Day in the Diamond Battery ...
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... Heavy Brigade by Brigadier - General Scarlett , the whole Division being under the orders of the Earl of Lucan . Sir John Burgoyne had the chief command of the Engineers . These details derive a melancholy interest from the changes ...
... Heavy Brigade by Brigadier - General Scarlett , the whole Division being under the orders of the Earl of Lucan . Sir John Burgoyne had the chief command of the Engineers . These details derive a melancholy interest from the changes ...
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... heavy rain began to fall . In spite of this , officers and men had fallen busily to work , and had prepared for their first bivouac , by collecting heaps of weeds , and of the fragrant shrubs with which the soil was covered and the air ...
... heavy rain began to fall . In spite of this , officers and men had fallen busily to work , and had prepared for their first bivouac , by collecting heaps of weeds , and of the fragrant shrubs with which the soil was covered and the air ...
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... heavy guns , which flanked the whole of the right of the position . Ar- tillery at the same time was posted at the points that best command the passage of the river and its approaches generally . On the slopes of these hills , forming a ...
... heavy guns , which flanked the whole of the right of the position . Ar- tillery at the same time was posted at the points that best command the passage of the river and its approaches generally . On the slopes of these hills , forming a ...
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... heavy and destructive fire of musketry at short range , the French still pushed on , and , though for a moment checked , would not recede , nor yield an inch of ground . The contest raged with peculiar fury around an octangular white ...
... heavy and destructive fire of musketry at short range , the French still pushed on , and , though for a moment checked , would not recede , nor yield an inch of ground . The contest raged with peculiar fury around an octangular white ...
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11th Hussars admirable advanced trench Allies arms army artillery assailants assault Baidar Balaklava Bastion du Mât batteries battle bayonet bombardment Brigade British camp Captain carried centre church Colnaghi Colonel columns command commenced Crimea defences despatch destroyed direction distance drawing embrasures enemy enemy's English Eupatoria extreme right fire flank fleet force foreground formed French front gallant ground Guards guns harbour heavy heights hill horse Inkermann interior Kadikoi Kamiesch Kertch Kherson killed land left attack Lieutenant Light Cavalry lith London P&D Lord Cardigan Lord Raglan loss Malakoff Mamelon miles musketry night officers Omar Pasha once P&D Colnaghi parapet Pelissier plateau position ravine rear Redan redoubt regiment rendered retreat rifle-pits right attack Russians Sardinian scene Sebastopol Second Division shell ships shot side siege Simpson Sir George Brown soldiers spot squadrons steamers Tchernaya Tower town troops Turks valley vessels whole Woronzoff Road wounded yards Yenikale Zouaves
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Página 11 - And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land : On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
Página 254 - The mariner remembers when a child, On his first voyage he saw it fade and sink ; And when, returning from adventures wild, He saw it rise again o'er ocean's brink. Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same Year after year, through all the silent night Burns on for evermore that quenchless flame, Shines on that inextinguishable light...
Página 67 - God help them! they are lost!" was the exclamation of more than one man and the thought of many. With unabated fire the noble hearts dashed at their enemy.
Página 68 - Russian name, the miscreants poured a murderous volley of grape and canister on the mass of struggling men and horses, mingling friend and foe in one common ruin ! It was as much as our heavy cavalry brigade could do to cover the retreat of the miserable remnants of that band of heroes as they returned to the place they had so lately quitted in all the pride of life. At thirty-five minutes past eleven not a British soldier, except the dead and dying, was left in front of these bloody Muscovite guns.
Página 66 - Russians are not checked, but still sweep onward through the smoke, with the whole force of horse and man, here and there knocked over by the shot of our batteries above. With breathless suspense every one awaits the bursting of the wave upon the line of Gaelic rock ; but ere they come within...
Página 17 - ... at a salient pinnacle where their right rested, and whence the descent to the plain was more gradual. The front was about two miles in extent. " Across the mouth of this great opening, is a lower ridge at different heights, varying from 60 to 150 feet, parallel to the river, and at distances from it from 600 to 800 yards.
Página 56 - Within a long recess a bay there lies, Edged round with cliffs high pointing to the skies; The jutting shores that swell on either side Contract its mouth, and break the rushing tide. Our eager sailors seize the fair retreat, And bound within the port their crowded fleet: For here retired the sinking billows sleep, And smiling calmness silver'd o'er the deep.
Página 67 - Enniskillencrs went right at the centre of the Russian cavalry. The space between them was only a few hundred yards ; it was scarce enough to let the horses " gather way," nor had the men quite space sufficient for the full play of their sword arms.
Página 67 - A forest of lances glistened in their rear, and several squadrons of grey-coated dragoons moved up quickly to support them as they reached the summit. The instant they came in sight the trumpets of our cavalry gave out the warning blast which told us all that in another moment we should see the shock of battle beneath our very eyes. Lord Raglan, all his staff and escort, and groups of officers, the Zouaves, French generals and officers, and bodies of...
Página 37 - From some misconception of the instruction to advance, the Lieutenant-General considered that he was bound to attack at all hazards, and he accordingly ordered Major-General the Earl of Cardigan to move forward with the Light Brigade.