| Somerset John Gough Calthorpe - 1858 - 446 páginas
...great-coats, and helmets, long after the killed and wounded had ceased to fall. On the further heights, about a mile and a half from the Alma, the British troops...Sir Colin Campbell. The latter was on foot, as his f hors£ had been killed in the earlier part of the action. He went up to his Lordship, and, with tears... | |
| Thomas Carter - 1861 - 642 páginas
...Quarters," by an Officer on tlie St^ff, the termination of the battle is thus graphically told: — "The men were tired, and many almost exhausted for...hands, saying it was not the first battle-field they liad won together, and that now he had a favour to ask, namely, that as his Highlanders had done so... | |
| Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1877 - 360 páginas
...of " Letters from Head-Quarters, or the Realities of the War in the Crimea." It is thus recorded : " It was a touching sight to see the meeting between Lord Raglan and Sir Colin Campbell, on the evening of the Battle of the Alma. The latter was on foot, as his horse had been killed in the... | |
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