 Sutlej, which 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 horse artillery a terrible carnage. Hundreds fell under this cannonade; hundreds upon...  Annual Register - Page 296edited by - 1847Full view - About this book
 | England - 1846 - 816 pages
...the bridge, and into the Sutlej, which a sadden rise of seven inches had rendered hardly fordable. In their efforts to reach the right bank, through...artillery a terrible carnage. Hundreds fell under this caunonade; hundreds upon bundrcds ivero drnwnpit in attempting the perilous [uisugc. Their awful slanghter,... | |
 | 1846 - 840 pages
...their bridge, and into the Sutlej, which a sudden rise of seven inches had rendered hardly fordable. In their efforts to reach the right bank through the...excited compassion in the hearts of their generous conquerors, if the Khalsa troops had not, in the earlier part of the action, sullied their gallantry... | |
 | Henry HARDINGE (1st Viscount Hardinge.), Sutlej river - Sikh War, 1845-1846 - 1846 - 74 pages
...their bridge and into the Sntlej, which a sudden rise of seven inches had rendered hardly fordable. In their efforts to reach the right bank through the...excited compassion in the hearts of their generous conquerors if the Khalsa troops had not, in the early part of the action, sullied their gallantry by... | |
 | Henry Hardinge Hardinge (Viscount) - India - 1846 - 234 pages
...their bridge, and into the Sutlej, which a sudden rise of seven inches had rendered hardly fordable. In their efforts to reach the right bank through the...excited compassion in the hearts of their generous conquerors, if the Khalsa troops had not, in the earlier part of the action, sullied their gallantry... | |
 | Sikh War, 1845-1846 - 1846 - 230 pages
...their bridge, and into the Sutlej, which a sudden rise of seven inches had rendered hardly fordable. In their efforts to reach the right bank through the...excited compassion in the hearts of their generous conquerors, if the Khalsa troops had not, in the earlier part of the action, sullied their gallantry... | |
 | Henry Hardinge (1st Viscount Hardinge.) - India - 1846 - 182 pages
...their bridge, and into the Sutlej, which a sudden rise of seven inches had rendered hardly fordable. In their efforts to reach the right bank through the...excited compassion in the hearts of their generous conquerors, if the Khalsa troops had not, in the earlier part of the action, sullied their gallantry... | |
 | Henry Thoby Prinsep - Punjab (India) - 1846 - 432 pages
...the bridge, and into the Sutluj, which a sudden rise of seven inches had rendered hardly fordable. In their efforts to reach the right bank, through...passage. " Their awful slaughter, confusion, and dismay," observes Sir H. Gough, " were such as would have excited compassion in the hearts of their generous... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 580 pages
...humane and generous as brave, could not but pause in his narrative of this dread encounter, to say — " Their awful slaughter, confusion, and dismay were...excited compassion in the hearts of their generous conquerors, if the Kalsa troops had not, in the early part of the action, sullied their gallantry by... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1846 - 828 pages
...with reluctance of the carnage which it was both his duty and tbat of his followers to inflict. " The awful slaughter, confusion, and dismay, were such...would have excited compassion in the hearts of their conquerors, if the Khalsa troops had not, in the early part of tbe action, sullied their gallantry... | |
 | William Lewis M'Gregor - Punjab (India) - 1846 - 438 pages
...which a sudden rise of seven precipitated ' , into the Sutlej. inches had rendered hardly fordable In their efforts to reach the right bank through the deepened water, they suffered a terrible carnage from our horse artillery. " Hundreds fell under this cannonade; hundreds upon hundreds... | |
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