Passages in the Life of a Soldier: Or, Military Service in the East and West, المجلد 2Hurst and Blackett, 1857 |
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... Right and the Left attacks . The Right attack had to deal with the great Redan chiefly , and the works to the right and left of it . The attention of the Left attack was chiefly occupied by the Garden battery , the Crow's Nest and ...
... Right and the Left attacks . The Right attack had to deal with the great Redan chiefly , and the works to the right and left of it . The attention of the Left attack was chiefly occupied by the Garden battery , the Crow's Nest and ...
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... Right attack alone ; whilst the French , more numerous than ourselves , would have one hundred killed and wounded in the twenty - four hours . Captain Paton being disabled , as was just related , I was moving along the fourth parallel ...
... Right attack alone ; whilst the French , more numerous than ourselves , would have one hundred killed and wounded in the twenty - four hours . Captain Paton being disabled , as was just related , I was moving along the fourth parallel ...
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... right to left in our front , whilst shells cur- vetted and burst in the air , or in our bat- teries . The General's ... attack , and then down the slope in front of it to watch the effect of our shot on the city , and on the ...
... right to left in our front , whilst shells cur- vetted and burst in the air , or in our bat- teries . The General's ... attack , and then down the slope in front of it to watch the effect of our shot on the city , and on the ...
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... right , I found myself in Gordon's Battery of the Right attack , and , going in advance , came upon two bodies of soldiers of the 55th Regiment smashed with round shot , and lying together in a zig - zag . General Airey , the ...
... right , I found myself in Gordon's Battery of the Right attack , and , going in advance , came upon two bodies of soldiers of the 55th Regiment smashed with round shot , and lying together in a zig - zag . General Airey , the ...
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... outworks and supporting and flanking guns . Twelve hundred British stormers , under Sir John Camphell , were intended to sally out of the Quarries and trenches of the Right attack , and assault the Great THE LIFE OF A SOLDIER . 61.
... outworks and supporting and flanking guns . Twelve hundred British stormers , under Sir John Camphell , were intended to sally out of the Quarries and trenches of the Right attack , and assault the Great THE LIFE OF A SOLDIER . 61.
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