 | John Clark Marshman - Generals - 1860 - 536 pages
...General, that Sir James announced his determination to leave the relief of Lucknow in his hands. " I shall join you with the reinforcements. But to you...glory of relieving Lucknow, for which you have already struggled so much. I shall accompany you only in my civil capacity as commissioner, placing my military... | |
 | John Clark Marshman - Generals - 1861 - 518 pages
...General, that Sir James announced his determination to leave the relief of Lucknow in his hands. " I shall join you with the reinforcements. But to you shall be left the glory of relieving LucknoAv, for which you have already struggled so much. I shall accompany you only in my civil capacity... | |
 | Edwin Hodder - 1878 - 380 pages
...was made possible, Sir James Outram sent his first communication to Havelock in these terms : — " I shall join you with the reinforcements. But to you...glory of relieving Lucknow, for which you have already struggled so much. I shall accompany you only in my civil capacity as Commissioner, placing my military... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1879 - 612 pages
...capacity, as chief commissioner of Oude, and offered his military services as a volunteer; adding — " To you shall be left the glory of relieving Lucknow, for which you have already so nobly struggled." Havelock, it is said, " was not a demonstrative man ; and, in his reply to that communication, he did... | |
 | English periodicals - 1880 - 920 pages
...capacity." He had accordingly written thus to Havelock, in a tone which proves the true Bayard : " I shall join you with the reinforcements, but to you...you please to make use of me, serving under you as a volunteer." The account of the seven troublous weeks during which Outram skilfully maintained the... | |
 | Frederic John Goldsmid - Generals - 1880 - 486 pages
...brigade at Allahabad would release more hands for work in the front from that station. He added : — 'I shall join you with the reinforcements, but to...relieving Lucknow, for which you have already so nobly struggled.1 I shall accompany you only in my civil capacity as Commissioner, placing my military services... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - Great Britain - 1880 - 496 pages
...a brave and successful comrade of the fruits of his toil and peril. Outram wrote to Havelock — ' To you shall be left the glory of relieving Lucknow, for which you have already struggled so much. I shall accompany you only in my civil capacity as Commissioner, placing my military... | |
 | Alexander Hay Japp - Biography - 1881 - 370 pages
...accordingly written thus to Havelock, in a tone which proves the true Bayard : " I shall join you with reinforcements, but to you shall be left the glory...you please to make use of me, serving under you as a volunteer." Though severely wounded in the arm, he would not on that account slacken, for a moment,... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - Great Britain - 1881 - 670 pages
...arrival, but this the generous soldier would not consent to do. He wrote privately to Havelock : " To you shall be left the glory of relieving Lucknow, for which you have already struggled so much. I shall accompany you only in my civil capacity, placing my military service at... | |
 | Guizot (M., François) - Great Britain - 1881 - 672 pages
...arrival, but this the generous soldier would not consent to do. IIe wrote privately to IIavelock : " To you shall be left the glory of relieving Lucknow, for which you have already struggled so much. I shall accompany you only in my civil capacity, placing my military service at... | |
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To you shall be left the glory of relieving Lucknow, for which you have already struggled so much. I shall accompany you only in my civil capacity as Commissioner, placing my military service at your disposal should you please, and serving under you as... 
