Famous Battles of the Nineteenth Century, Volumen2Charles Welsh A. Wessels Company, 1905 |
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action advance Afghan Arabi army artillery attack Ayoub's Baggara bank battalions battery battle began Boers bombardment brigade British bullets burst Cabul camp Candahar Caney Captain cavalry Cavite Chinese close Colonel column command Cronje Custer dark dead defeated defence Dervishes Domokos Egyptian El Caney enemy enemy's fell fight flag flank fleet force forts Frederick Roberts front garrison Gordon Greek ground gunboats guns heavy Highlanders hill horses hundred yards infantry Japanese Kanly Kars Kassassin Kerreri Khartoum killed laager Lieutenant Mahdists Maiwand miles morning mounted moved night Nile officers Omdurman opened fire parapet Pasha Pharsala Ping-yang Port Arthur position rear regiments ridge rifle river Rorke's Drift rush Russians Sangley Point sent shells ships shot side Sir Donald Stewart Sirdar soldiers soon Soudanese Spaniards Spanish squadron steamers Tekman thousand tion town Transvaal trenches troops Turkish Turks valley victory village wounded Zulus
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Página 6 - Till the war drum throbs no longer and the battle flags are furled In the Parliament of man, the federation of the world.
Página 206 - Hansel, near the church, when we met some rebels in an open place near the outer gate of the palace. Gordon Pasha was walking in front leading the party. The rebels fired a volley and Gordon was killed at once; nine of the cavasses, Ibrahim Bey Rushdi, and Muhamed Bey Mustapha, were killed, the rest ran away.
Página 73 - Regiment, being the last men to leave, holding the doorway with. the bayonet, their own ammunition being expended. From the want of interior communication and the burning of the house, it was impossible to save all. With most heartfelt sorrow I regret we could not save these poor fellows from their terrible fate.
Página 207 - Gate, certainly did not make a proper defence, and failed to warn General Gordon of the danger the town was in. He afterwards appears to have taken a commission under the Mahdi, and to have gone to Kordofan with the Emir Abu-Anga. " In my opinion Khartoum fell from sudden assault when the garrison were too exhausted by privations to make proper resistance.
Página 15 - When I am gone and my warnings are no longer heeded, The craft and avarice of the white man will prevail. My heart fails me when I think of my people So soon to be scattered and forgotten.
Página 204 - The sight at this moment was very grand : the masses of the enemy with their fluttering banners near Khartum ; the long rows of riflemen in the shelter-trenches at Omdurman; the numerous groups of men on Tuti; the bursting shells, and the water torn up by hundreds of bullets and occasional heavier shot,—made an impression never to be forgotten. Looking out over the stormy scene, it seemed almost impossible that we should escape.
Página 182 - ... charge, and responding with lusty continued cheers, and without a moment's pause or hesitation, the ranks sprang forward in steady array. Their distance from the blazing line of entrenchment was judged to be about a hundred and fifty yards — -in that interval nearly two hundred men went down, the 74th on the left losing five officers and sixty men before it got to the ditch. This obstacle was (as the engineers afterwards recorded) six feet wide and four deep, and beyond was a parapet four feet...
Página 196 - January would be hurried on, or that a delay of a couple of days would make much difference.
Página 322 - The piercing scream of shot was varied often by the bursting of time fuse shells, fragments of which would lash the water like shrapnel or cut our hull and rigging. One large shell that was coming straight at the Olympia's forward bridge fortunately fell within less than one hundred feet away. One fragment cut the rigging exactly over the heads of Lamberton, Rees and myself. Another struck the bridge gratings in line with it. A third passed just under Dewey and gouged a hole in the deck.
Página 180 - ... perfectly open ground, could be concealed even by the screen of the night. But, on the whole, and especially after the first mile or two, a dead silence was preserved ; the pace, owing to the darkness, was necessarily slow; and weird and ghostly was the effect of the dim streaks, looking like the shadows of moving clouds, but which were really lines of men, stealing over the desert. The surface was harder and smoother than any we had yet traversed, and could be discerned, when close at hand,...