Letters from Head-quarters; Or, the Realities of the War in the Crimea: By an Officer on the Staff [d.i. Somerset John Gough Calthorpe]. In 2 Vol, Volumen1Murray, 1856 |
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... effects of the Russian shot on her at the bombardment of Odessa . Accordingly we went up her side , and were received with that civility that one always meets with from the officers of the Royal Navy . We found that the salute we had ...
... effects of the Russian shot on her at the bombardment of Odessa . Accordingly we went up her side , and were received with that civility that one always meets with from the officers of the Royal Navy . We found that the salute we had ...
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... effect it would otherwise have had . There were about 16,000 men on parade ; and as they marched past no one could help being struck with their appearance . There were some French officers there who had never before seen English troops ...
... effect it would otherwise have had . There were about 16,000 men on parade ; and as they marched past no one could help being struck with their appearance . There were some French officers there who had never before seen English troops ...
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... effect was magical : one and all were on their horses in a moment , and set off along the road as hard as they could lay legs to the ground . You never saw anything so absurd , and , angry as I was , I could not help laughing . I ...
... effect was magical : one and all were on their horses in a moment , and set off along the road as hard as they could lay legs to the ground . You never saw anything so absurd , and , angry as I was , I could not help laughing . I ...
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... effect . On coming into Shumla you are of course disgusted by the usual sights and smells of an eastern town -- everything looking wretched and mise- rable , and being a century behind the rest of Europe . The few hours I was at Shumla ...
... effect . On coming into Shumla you are of course disgusted by the usual sights and smells of an eastern town -- everything looking wretched and mise- rable , and being a century behind the rest of Europe . The few hours I was at Shumla ...
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... effect as they marched past ; on coming opposite the generals , the commanding officer of each battalion threw up his sword and called out " Vive l'Angleterre ! Vive la Turquie ! Vive l'Empereur ! " which was re- sponded to by the ...
... effect as they marched past ; on coming opposite the generals , the commanding officer of each battalion threw up his sword and called out " Vive l'Angleterre ! Vive la Turquie ! Vive l'Empereur ! " which was re- sponded to by the ...
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1st Division 2nd Division 4th Division 8th Hussars advance aide-de-camp allied Alma appeared Arnaud arrived artillery attack Balaklava battalion battle brigade of Guards camp Canrobert Captain Caradoc cholera Colonel command consequently Cossack Hill Cossacks Crimea Devna Duke of Cambridge Edmund Lyons enemy enemy's English fire flank fleet French army front ground guns harbour head-quarters heavy heights horses hour infantry Inkermann instant killed Lacy Evans land light cavalry Light Division Lord Cardigan Lord Lucan Lord Raglan loss Marshal St miles morning night o'clock officers Omer Pasha parapet picket position prisoners ravine rear redoubt regiment river road rode round shot Russian Sandbag Battery Scutari sent Sevastopol shell ships shot Shumla side siege Silistria Sir De Lacy Sir Edmund Lyons Sir George Brown staff Tchernaya tents told town troops Turkish Turks valley Varna village wounded yards Zouaves