Records of the 90th Regiment, (Perthshire Light Infantry): With Roll of Officers from 1795 to 1880Richardson, 1880 - 260 Seiten |
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90th Light Infantry 90th Regiment Alex Alum Bagh Andrew Wood Apsley Cherry army arrived artillery attack battalion battery brigade Brigadier-General camp Campbell cavalry Cawnpore Chas Clerk Rattray Colonel Graham Colonel Hill Colonel Wood column command Commander-in-Chief companies Conry corps David Hopkins despatch detachment Deverill division doolies enemy enemy's Eyles flank force Fort Beaufort Fred French garrison goth guns H. R. Thurlow Hackett head-quarters heavy fire Henry honour Horse island John McNair John Wilson l.c. Capt l.g. Lt.Col laager Lieut Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Lieutenant-General Lord Lord Lynedoch Lucknow Mackenzie Majesty's Major Barnston Major-General marched Marcus Geale Mark Napier Minorca Moncrieffe moved Napier non-commissioned officers Palmer Perryn picquet position Preedy Pymr Q.-M. P. Maitland rear rebels received remained Rennie Robt Rogers Rowland Hill sent Sir James Outram soldiers Surg troops Ulundi Vaughan Wilmer wounded Zulus
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Seite 179 - Captain Peel leading up his heavy guns with extraordinary gallantry within a few yards of the building to batter the massive stone walls. The withering fire of the Highlanders effectually covered the naval brigade from great loss, but it was an action almost unexampled in war. Captain Peel behaved very much as if he had been laying the Shannon alongside an enemy's frigate.
Seite 138 - Sir James Outram, KCB, to leave to him the task of relieving Lucknow and rescuing its gallant and enduring garrison, has only to express his hope that the troops will strive, by their exemplary and gallant conduct in the field, to justify the confidence thus reposed in them.
Seite 37 - Porte, as well as of the quarter master general, and the other officers who were sent forward to provide for the necessities of the army. Our delays originated from other causes. For a considerable time previous to our sailing, the weather was extremely boisterous, and the winds contrary. The moment that it became practicable to sail with so large a fleet, Lord Keith put to sea ; we left Marmorice on the 32d of February, and came in sight of Alexandria on the 1st of March.
Seite 200 - The rear of the enclosures of the latter being closed " in by the city, through which approach would have been " dangerous to an assailant. " These lines were flanked by numerous bastions, and " rested at one end on the Goomtee, and at the other on " the great buildings of the street called the Huzrut " Gunge, all of which were strongly fortified, and flanked " the street in every direction.
Seite 138 - The Major-General, therefore, in gratitude for and admiration of the brilliant deeds in arms achieved by General Havelock and his gallant troops, will cheerfully waive his rank on the occasion, and will accompany the force to Lucknow in his civil capacity as Chief Commissioner of Oude, tendering his military services to General Havelock as a volunteer.
Seite 113 - ... the brave men who achieved this advantage with a gallantry and determination that does them infinite honour, maintained themselves on the ground they had acquired, notwithstanding that during the night, and in the morning of yesterday, the enemy made repeated attempts to drive them out, each attempt ending in failure, although supported by large bodies of troops, and by heavy discharges of musketry, and every species of offensive missile. The French on our right had shortly before moved out of...
Seite 184 - I moved out at 5 AM in the hope of surprising them at daybreak, and intercepting their retreat to the city, with a force detailed in the accompanying divisional order, which I have this day issued, and • Since ascertained to h«ve beea 00)7 four ; all of which were captured.
Seite 126 - The Commander of the Forces congratulates the army on the result of the attack of yesterday. " The brilliant assault and occupation of the Malakhoff by our gallant allies obliged the enemy to abandon the works they have so long held with such bravery and determination. " The Commander of the Forces returns his thanks to the general officers and officers and men of the Second and Light Divisions, who advanced and attacked with such gallantry the works of the Redan. He regrets, from the formidable...
Seite 122 - ... pistols much opportunity of using them in such a rapid contest. They fell like heroes, and many a gallant soldier with them. The bodies of English and Russians inside the Redan, locked in an embrace which death could not relax, but had rather cemented all the closer, lay next day inside the Redan as evidences of the terrible animosity of the struggle. But the solid weight of the advancing mass, urged on, and fed each moment from the rear by company after company and battalion after battalion,...
Seite 37 - Coote, got into the boats early in the morning : they had in general from five to six miles to row, and did not arrive at the point of landing till ten o'clock. The front of disembarkation was narrow; and a hill, which commanded the whole seemed almoft inaccessible.