The Life of Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde, Volume 1W. Blackwood and sons, 1881 - Great Britain |
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98th Regiment advance amongst army arrival artillery attack Balaklava bank battalion battery battle body British Cameron camp Campbell's Captain cavalry Cawnpore Chartist Chenab Chillianwala Chusan Colin Campbell Colonel column command Commander-in-chief Commissioner corps Cureton defence detachment division duty enemy enemy's England expedition Eyre feeling fire Fitzroy Somerset flank force French front frontier garrison Goojrat Governor-General ground guns heights Henry Eyre Highland brigade hills honour hope horse-artillery India join journal Kadiköi Kohat Lahore Lawrence leave letter Lieutenant Lord Fitzroy Lord Gough Lord Raglan lordship Major-General ment Momund Moolraj Mooltan moved movement Muttah Native Infantry night occasion officer operations opinion pass Peshawur position proceeded Punjab reached rear received redoubt reinforcements remain river Royal Russian sent siege Sikhs Singh Sir Charles Napier Sir Colin Sir James Outram Sir John soldiers Swat tion troops valley village whilst wounded
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Page 116 - But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling ! To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, Assiduous wait upon her; And gather gear by ev'ry wile That's justified by honour; Not for to hide it in a hedge, Nor for a train attendant; But for the glorious privilege Of being independent.
Page 414 - Seldom — perhaps never — has it occurred to a Commander-in-Chief to publish and confirm such an order as the following one, proceeding from Major-General Sir James Outram, KCB With such a reputation as Major-General Sir James Outram has won for himself, he can afford to share glory and honour with others. But that does not lessen the value of the sacrifice he has made with such disinterested generosity, in favour of Brigadier-General Havelock, CB, commanding the field force in Oude.
Page 226 - I would much rather have got a year's batta, because the latter would enable me to leave this country a year sooner, and to join some friends of my early days whom I love very much, and in whose society I would like to spend the period which may yet remain to me to live between the camp and the grave. " The day I leave this country will terminate my military career.
Page 390 - Our native land will never forget the name of the Highland Brigade, and in some future war the nation will call for another one to equal this, which it never can surpass.
Page 390 - Brigade; and in some future war that nation will call for another one to equal this, which it can never surpass. Though I shall be gone, the thought of you will go with me wherever I may be, and cheer my old age with a glorious recollection of dangers affronted and of hardships endured.
Page 414 - Seldom, perhaps never, has it occurred to a Commander-in-Chief to publish and confirm such an order as the following one, proceeding from MajorGeneral Sir James Outram, KCB " With such a reputation as Major-General Sir James Outram has won for himself, he can well afford to share glory and honour with others. But that does not lessen the value of the sacrifice he has made with such disinterested generosity in favour of Brigadier -General Havelock, CB, commanding the field force in Oudh.
Page 332 - The Commander of the Forces feels deeply indebted to Major-General Sir Colin Campbell for his able and persevering exertions in the action in front of Balaklava on the 25th inst. ; and he has great pleasure in publishing to the army the brilliant manner in which the 93d Highlanders, under his able directions, repulsed the enemy's cavalry.
Page 390 - I shall be and cheer my old age with a glorious recollection of dangers confronted and hardships endured — a pipe will never sound near me without carrying me back to those bright days when I was at your head, and wore the bonnet you gained for me, and the honourable decorations on my breast, many of which I owe to your conduct. Brave soldiers ; kind comrades ! Farewell...
Page 415 - Concurring, as the Commander-in-Chief does, in everything stated in the just eulogy of the latter by Sir James Outram, his Excellency takes this opportunity of publicly testifying to the Army his admiration for an act of self-sacrifice and generosity, on a point, which, of all others, is dear to a real soldier.
Page 390 - I have been associated, whose name and glory will long be kept alive in the hearts of our countrymen. When you go home, as you gradually fulfil your term of service, each to his family and his cottage, you will tell the story of your immortal advance in that victorious echelon up the heights of Alma, and of the old Brigadier . who led you and loved you so well.