 | 1855 - 1428 páginas
...unhappy raw levies of whom Field Marshal Lord Raglan wrote back to the Duke of Newcastle, that they were " so young and unformed, that they fell victims to disease and were swept away like flies." But granting these most undeniable postulates, we have one in our turn which is at least equally difficult... | |
 | Sir John Adye - 1860 - 230 páginas
...infantry. When the Duke of Newcastle acquainted Lord Raglan that he had 2000 recruits to send him, he replied, that those last sent were so young and unformed,...were swept away like flies ; he preferred to wait. " In December, the power of reinforcing the army with efficient soldiers was so reduced that the Government... | |
 | William Aitken - 1862 - 122 páginas
...he had * Marshall, loc. cit. t Med.-Chir. Trans., vol. vi. 2,000 recruits ready to send to him, he replied that " those last sent were so young and unformed...were swept away like flies. He preferred to wait."* Sir De Lacy Evans states in the same Reports f that the drafts sent to him were composed of men too... | |
 | 1867 - 626 páginas
...Raglan to the Duke of Newcastle, during the height of the Crimean campaign : — " Those last sent out were so young and unformed that they fell victims to disease, and were swept away like flies." That too great a standard of height was aimed at in the English service there can be now little doubt,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1871 - 1086 páginas
...Lord Eaglan, when informed by the Duke of Newcastle that ho had 2,000 recruits ready to send to him, replied that— " Those last sent were so young and...victims to disease, and were swept away like flies." Sir De Lacy Evans, at the same time, wrote that the draughts sent to him were composed of men quito... | |
 | Sir Edward Robert Sullivan - 1871 - 128 páginas
...Duke of Newcastle that he had 2000 recruits ready to send to him, replied that "those last sent him were so young and unformed that they fell victims to disease, and were swept away like flies." Sir De Lacy Evans at the same time wrote, " that the drafts sent to him were composed of men quite... | |
 | 1875 - 1008 páginas
...nothing. When the Duke of Newcastle offered to send 2,000 more, Lord Raglan, in despair, replied : " Those last sent were so young and unformed that they...victims to disease and were swept away like flies." Sir de Lacy Evans bore like testimony, stating that the draughts sent him were composed of men quite... | |
 | 1879 - 1174 páginas
...Duke of Newcastle acquainted Lord Raglan that he had 2,000 recruits to send him, he replied that AA 2 those last sent were so young and unformed, that they...were swept away like flies, — he preferred to wait. In Uecemljer the power of reinforcing the army with efficient soldiers was so reduced that the Government... | |
 | 1881 - 1120 páginas
...begged they might be kept where they were. He said he preferred to wait, as those last sent to him ' were so young and unformed that they fell victims to disease, and were swept away like flies.' Surely those who now advocate a return to our old army system, if system it can be called, must either... | |
 | 1882 - 636 páginas
...begged they might be kept where they were. He said he preferred to wait, as those last sent to him ' were so young and unformed that they fell victims to disease, and were swept away like flies'" (p. 565). Again: "Before the Mutiny, under the long-service system, I have seen drafta of many hundreds... | |
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Lord Raglan that he had 2,000 recruits to send him, he replied that those last sent were so young and unformed, that they fell victims to disease, and were swept away like flies — -he preferred to wait. 
