A Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan, 1841-2J. Murray, 1843 - 88 стор. |
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Affghanistan Affghans Alexander Burnes Amenoollah ammunition amongst arrived artillery attack baggage Bala Hissar Behmaru Bhoodkhak Brig brigade Brigadier brought camels camp followers cantonments Capt cavalry Charikar command Commissariat Conolly Dost Mahommed Khan Elphinstone enemy Envoy Envoy's Fcap fight fire force forts Futteh Jung gate Ghazeeas Ghilzyes Ghuznee grain Gundamuk guns heard Hindostan horse horsemen hostages Jellalabad Jemadar Jugdaluk Kandahar Khoord Cabul killed King Kohistan kujavas Kuzzilbashes Lady Macnaghten lakhs Lawrence letter Lieut Macgregor Mackenzie Mahommed Akbar Khan Mahommed Shah Khan Major Pottinger Meer miles morning night o'clock officers ottah palkee party pass Peshawer rear received regiment road rupees Sale Sale's sappers sent servants Shah Shoojah Shah's 6th Shelton shot Siah Sung Sipahees Sir William Sirdar snow Sturt Sultan Jan taken Tézeen Thain to-day to-morrow told took Trevor troops whilst wounded Wuzeer yaboos Zeman Shah Khan
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Сторінка 227 - ... Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank and fiery Hun Shout in their sulphurous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave ! Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave! And charge with all thy chivalry! Few, few, shall part where many meet ! The snow shall be their winding sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.
Сторінка 436 - It is impossible to express our feelings on Sale's approach. To my daughter and myself happiness so long delayed as to be almost unexpected was actually painful, and accompanied by a choking sensation, which could not obtain the relief of...
Сторінка 238 - The ladies were mostly travelling in kajavas, and were mixed up with the baggage and column in the pass: here they were heavily fired on; many camels were killed. On one camel were, in one kajava, Mrs. Boyd and her youngest boy Hugh; and in the other Mrs. Mainwaring and her infant, scarcely three months old, and Mrs. Anderson's eldest child. This camel was shot. Mrs. Boyd got a horse to ride; and her child was put on another behind a man, who being shortly after unfortunately killed, the child was...
Сторінка 236 - We had not proceeded half a mile when we were heavily fired upon. Chiefs rode with the advance, and desired us to keep close to them. They certainly desired their followers to shout to the people on the height not to fire : they did so, but quite ineffectually. These chiefs certainly ran the same risk we did ; but I verily believe many of these persons would individually sacrifice themselves to rid their country of us. After passing through some very sharp firing, we came upon Major Thain's horse,...
Сторінка 287 - We luxuriated in dressing, although we had no clothes but those on our backs ; but we enjoyed washing our faces very much, having had but one opportunity of doing so before, since we left Cabul. It was rather a painful process, as the cold and glare of the sun on the snow had three times peeled my face, from which the skin came off in strips.
Сторінка 285 - Akbar Khan, to our horror, has informed us that only one man of our force has succeeded in reaching Jellalabad (Dr. Brydon of the Shah's force: he was wounded in two places). Thus is verified what we were told before leaving Cabul ; 'that Mahommed Akbar would annihilate the whole army, except one man, who should reach Jellalabad to tell the tale.
Сторінка 234 - For myself, whilst I sat for hours on my horse in the cold, I felt very grateful for a tumbler of sherry, which at any other time would have made me very unlady-like, but now merely warmed me, and appeared to have no more strength in it than water.
Сторінка 258 - The enemy here crowded from the tops of the hills in all directions down the bed of the Nullah, through which the route lay for three miles; and our men continued their progress through an incessant fire from the heights on both sides, until their arrival in the...
Сторінка 98 - All was a regular confusion; my very heart felt as if it leapt to my teeth when I saw the Afghans ride clean through them. The onset was fearful. They looked like a great cluster of bees, but we beat them and drove them up again.