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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... present we are spared the horrors of sea - sickness . Our sailing orders are to touch at Gibraltar and Malta , and then to proceed to Galli- poli , and wait for further orders . My three horses seem already pretty well reconciled to ...
... present we are spared the horrors of sea - sickness . Our sailing orders are to touch at Gibraltar and Malta , and then to proceed to Galli- poli , and wait for further orders . My three horses seem already pretty well reconciled to ...
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... present , as oats are said to be heating , and likely to bring on fever when horses cannot be exercised . This letter is to go on shore by the pilot , who lands at Dover directly , so I must bring it to a termination . Gibraltar Harbour ...
... present , as oats are said to be heating , and likely to bring on fever when horses cannot be exercised . This letter is to go on shore by the pilot , who lands at Dover directly , so I must bring it to a termination . Gibraltar Harbour ...
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... present moment large works are in course of construction . We afterwards rode up to the signal- post , which is almost the highest point of the rock , being 1450 feet above the sea . The view from there is perhaps one of the grandest to ...
... present moment large works are in course of construction . We afterwards rode up to the signal- post , which is almost the highest point of the rock , being 1450 feet above the sea . The view from there is perhaps one of the grandest to ...
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... present proficiency in that branch of their military service is chiefly owing to his exertions . I was only too glad to profit by his kind offer to go with me into the bazaars , as his perfect knowledge of the Turkish language gave me ...
... present proficiency in that branch of their military service is chiefly owing to his exertions . I was only too glad to profit by his kind offer to go with me into the bazaars , as his perfect knowledge of the Turkish language gave me ...
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... present moment he has only some seventy or eighty mules , and yet for the most ordinary requirements on the commis- sariat he will want three thousand animals ! And that number is of course independent of the ammu- nition and regimental ...
... present moment he has only some seventy or eighty mules , and yet for the most ordinary requirements on the commis- sariat he will want three thousand animals ! And that number is of course independent of the ammu- nition and regimental ...
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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