 | 1839 - 426 pages
...addition to this, screen walls had been built before the gates, the ditch was filled with water, and unfordable, and an outwork built on the right bank of the river, so as to command the bed of it. It is, therefore, the more honourable to the troops, and must appear to the enemy out of all calculation... | |
 | Richard Hartley Kennedy - Afghan Wars - 1840 - 642 pages
...addition to this screen, walls had been built before the gates, the ditch was filled with water and unfordable, and an outwork built on the right bank of the river, so as to command the bed of it. It is, therefore, the more honourable to the troops, and must appear to the enemy out of all calculation... | |
 | Richard Hartley Kennedy - Afghan Wars - 1840 - 338 pages
...addition to this screen, walls had been built before the gates, the ditch was filled with water and unfordable, and an outwork built on the right bank of the river, so as to command the bed of it. It is, therefore, the more honourable to the troops, and must appear to the enemy out of all calculation... | |
 | James Outram - Afghan Wars - 1840 - 290 pages
...addition to this screen, walls had been built before the gates, the ditch was filled with water and unfordable, and an outwork built on the right bank of the river, so as to command the bed of it. It is therefore, the more honourable to the Troops, and must appear to the enemy out of all calculation... | |
 | William Hough - Afghan Wars - 1841 - 602 pages
...addition to this, screen walls had been built before the gates ; the ditch was filled with water and unfordable, and an out-work built on the right bank of the river, so as to command the bed of it." 4. " It is therefore the more honorable to the troops, and must appear to the enemy out of all calculation... | |
 | William Hough - Afghan Wars - 1841 - 600 pages
...addition to this, screen walls had been built before the gates ; the ditch was filled with water and unfordable, and an out-work built on the right bank of the river, so as to command the bed of it." 4. " It is therefore the more honorable to the troops, and must appear to the enemy out of all calculation... | |
 | William Hough - Afghan Wars - 1841 - 602 pages
...regarding the to this, screen walls had been built before the gates ; the ditch was filled with water and unfordable, and an out-work built on the right bank of the river, so as to command the bed of it." 4. " It is therefore the more honorable to the troops, and must appear to the enemy out of all calculation... | |
 | Books - 1841 - 902 pages
...addition to this, screen walls had been built before the gates, the ditch was filled with water and unfordable, and an outwork built on the right bank of the river, so as to command the bed of it. It is, therefore, the more honourable to the troops, and must appear to the enemy out of all calculation... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1841 - 928 pages
...addition to this, screen walls had been built before the gates, the ditch was filled with water and unfordable, and an outwork built on the right bank of the river, so as to command the toed of it. It« is, therefore, the more honourable to the troops, and must appear to the enemy out... | |
 | William Taylor - Afghan Wars - 1842 - 262 pages
...gate?, the ditch cleared out and filled with water, stated to be unfordable, and an outwork built ou the right bank of the river so as to command the bed of it. The garrison was variously stated from three to four thousand strong, including five hundred Cavalry, and from subsequent information we ibund... | |
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Braye and a wet ditch, whilst the height of the citadel covered the interior from the commanding fire of the hills from the north, rendering it nugatory. In addition to this screen, walls had been built before the gates, the ditch was filled with water... 
