... gun which could be sent to their aid, had been cast into the scale, that victory finally declared for the British. The fire of the Sikhs... Annual Register - Page 296edited by - 1847Full view - About this book
| England - 1846 - 816 pages
...until the full weight of three divi. sions of infantry, with every field artillery gun which could be sent to their aid, had been cast into the scale, that...them on every side, precipitated them in masses over the bridge, and into the Sutlej, which a sadden rise of seven inches had rendered hardly fordable.... | |
| Henry HARDINGE (1st Viscount Hardinge.), Sutlej river - Sikh War, 1845-1846 - 1846 - 74 pages
...until the full weight of three divisions of infantry, with every field artillery gun which could be sent to their aid, had been cast into the scale, that...a sudden rise of seven inches had rendered hardly fordable. In their efforts to reach the right bank through the deepened water, they suffered from our... | |
| 1846 - 840 pages
...until the full weight of three divisions of' infantry, with every field artillery gun which could be sent to their aid, had been cast into the scale, that...precipitated them in masses over their bridge, and into the Sutlej, which a sudden rise of seven inches had rendered hardly fordable. In their efforts to reach... | |
| Henry Hardinge (1st Viscount Hardinge.) - India - 1846 - 182 pages
...until the full weight of three divisions of infantry, with every field artillery gun which could be sent to their aid, had been cast into the scale, that...precipitated them in masses over their bridge, and into the Sutlej, which a sudden rise of seven inches had rendered hardly fordable. In their efforts to reach... | |
| Sikh War, 1845-1846 - 1846 - 230 pages
...until the full weight of three divisions of infantry, with every field artillery gun which could be sent to their aid, had been cast into the scale, that...precipitated them in masses over their bridge, and into the Sutlej, which a sudden rise of seven inches had rendered hardly fordable. In their efforts to reach... | |
| Henry Hardinge Hardinge (Viscount) - India - 1846 - 234 pages
...until the full weight of three divisions of infantry, with every field artillery gun which could be sent to their aid, had been cast into the scale, that...precipitated them in masses over their bridge, and into the Sutlej, which a sudden rise of seven inches had rendered hardly fordable. In their efforts to reach... | |
| Henry Thoby Prinsep - Punjab (India) - 1846 - 784 pages
...until the full weight of three divisions of infantry, with every field artillery gun which could be sent to their aid, had been cast into the scale, that...them on every side, precipitated them in masses over the bridge, and into the Sutluj, which a sudden rise of seven inches had rendered hardly fordable.... | |
| Henry Thoby Prinsep - Punjab (India) - 1846 - 432 pages
...until the full weight of three divisions of infantry, with every field artillery gun which could be sent to their aid, had been cast into the scale, that...and the victors then, pressing them on every side, 2 H 2 precipitated them in masses over the bridge, and into the Sutluj, which a sudden rise of seven... | |
| 1846 - 784 pages
...the broken enemy as swept them away by ranks. " The fire of the Sikhs" says the commandcr-in-chief, "first slackened, and then nearly ceased ; and the...then pressing them on every side, precipitated them over the bridge into the Sutlej, which a sudden rise of seven inches had rendered hardly forclable."... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1846 - 828 pages
...broken enemy as swept them away by ranks. " The flre of the Sikhs," says the commander-in-chief, "flrst slackened, and then nearly ceased ; and the victors...then pressing them on every side, precipitated them over the bridge into the Sutlej, which a sudden rise of seven inches had rendered hardly fordable."... | |
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