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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... shell , that the old outer line of the work could not be recognised . On the Turks find- ing that their parapet was falling from the Russian fire , they were for abandoning the work , but Cap- tain Butler told them that they must ...
... shell , that the old outer line of the work could not be recognised . On the Turks find- ing that their parapet was falling from the Russian fire , they were for abandoning the work , but Cap- tain Butler told them that they must ...
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... shells from the batteries on the north side of the Danube , and several thousands of these were 10 - inch shell . The town is completely deserted except by the troops , we therefore chose our own quarters . General Cannon had sent on an ...
... shells from the batteries on the north side of the Danube , and several thousands of these were 10 - inch shell . The town is completely deserted except by the troops , we therefore chose our own quarters . General Cannon had sent on an ...
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... shell . Our casualties were four men wounded ( two amputations ) and five horses killed , all of the cavalry . We had no means of ascertaining at the time the loss of the enemy , except by seeing the bodies of several horses lying about ...
... shell . Our casualties were four men wounded ( two amputations ) and five horses killed , all of the cavalry . We had no means of ascertaining at the time the loss of the enemy , except by seeing the bodies of several horses lying about ...
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... shell at them , but as yet without doing much harm . The enemy's skirmishers also kept up a sharp fire against our rifles , who replied to them with equal vigour , but not , I fear , with equal suc- cess , as the Russian sharpshooters ...
... shell at them , but as yet without doing much harm . The enemy's skirmishers also kept up a sharp fire against our rifles , who replied to them with equal vigour , but not , I fear , with equal suc- cess , as the Russian sharpshooters ...
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... during the whole battle . He rode every- where , with round shot , shell , and musket - balls flying about him , with an indifference that was really remarkable ; never got apparently excited in voice or 184 CHAP . IV . THE LAST SHOT .
... during the whole battle . He rode every- where , with round shot , shell , and musket - balls flying about him , with an indifference that was really remarkable ; never got apparently excited in voice or 184 CHAP . IV . THE LAST SHOT .
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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