Journal of Adventures with the British Army, from the Commencement of the War to the Taking of Sebastopol ...Hurst and Blackett, 1856 |
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... pickets on the ' Knoll , ' or ' Shell Hill , ' as it was called , and the Division got under arms . This was about half - past one o'clock . The Russians had made , what was since ascertained to have been , a powerful reconnaissance ...
... pickets on the ' Knoll , ' or ' Shell Hill , ' as it was called , and the Division got under arms . This was about half - past one o'clock . The Russians had made , what was since ascertained to have been , a powerful reconnaissance ...
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... pickets was loud and incessant , and the action commenced in earnest . The pickets , under Major Champion , of the 95th , behaved admirably , and checked the advance of the Russians , until our artillery opened upon them from the top of ...
... pickets was loud and incessant , and the action commenced in earnest . The pickets , under Major Champion , of the 95th , behaved admirably , and checked the advance of the Russians , until our artillery opened upon them from the top of ...
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... the camp of the Second Division . It was said that one of the two was the officer of the picket which took Lord Dunkellin prisoner , a few nights previously . Our loss was twelve killed , OF INKERMAN . 49 and seventy - one , including.
... the camp of the Second Division . It was said that one of the two was the officer of the picket which took Lord Dunkellin prisoner , a few nights previously . Our loss was twelve killed , OF INKERMAN . 49 and seventy - one , including.
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... picket of the Light Division , at the commencement of the attack . The five - gun battery commands the head of Careening Bay , which the Russians had to pass , to re - enter the town . As their columns crossed the ravine at this spot ...
... picket of the Light Division , at the commencement of the attack . The five - gun battery commands the head of Careening Bay , which the Russians had to pass , to re - enter the town . As their columns crossed the ravine at this spot ...
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... pickets , and working - parties in the trenches they have seldom two nights together in their tents . Indeed , they never have a clear night's rest undisturbed ; for it is the custom of the British army , when before the enemy , to get ...
... pickets , and working - parties in the trenches they have seldom two nights together in their tents . Indeed , they never have a clear night's rest undisturbed ; for it is the custom of the British army , when before the enemy , to get ...
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