Biographical Notices of Officers of the Royal (Bengal) Engineers

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Smith, Elder, & Company, 1900 - 276 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 202 - But skilful and courageous as have been the engineering operations, and glorious the behaviour of the troops, their success has been in no small degree promoted by the incessant and self-denying devotion of Colonel Napier, who has never been many hours absent by day or night from any one of the points of operation — whose valuable advice has ever been readily tendered and gratefully accepted by the executive officers — whose earnestness and kindly cordiality have stimulated and encouraged all...
Σελίδα 268 - ... supplied by the remaining beams, they proceeded to lodge their powder against the gate. The wicket was open, and through it the enemy kept up a heavy fire upon them. Sergeant Carmichael was killed while laying his powder, Havildar Madhoo being at the same time wounded.
Σελίδα 124 - ... Delhi as chief engineer, his bold and ready judgment, his weighty and tenacious counsels, played a foremost part in securing the success of the siege and England's supremacy. The gathered wisdom of many years spent in administering the irrigation of Upper India, trained him for his crowning service — the survey of the great famine of 1861, the provision of relief, and the suggestions of safeguards against such calamities. Broken by accumulated labours, he died at sea, Dec. 1 3, 1861, aged scarcely...
Σελίδα 268 - Madhoo being at the same time wounded. The powder being laid, the advanced party slipped down into the ditch, to allow the firing party under Lieutenant Salkeld to perform its duty. While endeavouring to fire the charge, Lieutenant Salkeld was shot through the leg and arm, and handed over the slow match to Corporal Burgees, who fell mortally wounded, just as he had successfully performed his duty.
Σελίδα 140 - Thackwell's advance with his cavalry, were driven to the northward. By one o'clock in the afternoon, Gough had overthrown the Sikh army, and had crowded it in heavy masses upon a line of retreat, which offered no hope of support, provision, or escape for the disheartened soldiery, if properly followed up.
Σελίδα 109 - The eastern face of the city rests on the Jumna, and during the season of the year when our operations were carried on, the stream may be described as washing the base of the walls. All access to a besieger on the river front is, therefore, impracticable. The defences here consist of an irregular wall with occasional bastions and towers, and about one-half of the length of the river face is occupied by the palace of the King of Delhi and its outwork, the old Mogul fort of Selimgurh.
Σελίδα 136 - Kussia in possession of Herat would have a grip on the throat of India. She would, indeed, in virtue of the position, command the military resources both of Persia and Afghanistan, and would thus obligo us at once to increase our frontier army by at least twenty thousand fresh British troops.
Σελίδα 207 - Echelon on his left, the left ' refused,' as the Major-General had heard that the ravines on the left were full of ambuscaded troops, and this formation would enable him rapidly to wheel the whole force to the left if necessary. . . . As the troops advanced the enemy in the ravines were forced to show themselves by Brigr.-Genl. Napier, and a sharp action took place between them and the 71st who, as usual, behaved admirably, completely beating the enemy with great loss.
Σελίδα 107 - A second edition was issued in 1855. Presentation copies of Baird Smith's work were placed by the Sardinian government in the Royal Academy of Science at Turin, and the king of Sardinia offered Baird Smith the insignia of a knight of the order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus. The regulations of the British service did not admit of the acceptance of this honour, but the court of directors expressed to Smith their high satisfaction with the manner in which he had executed his commission, and permitted...
Σελίδα 138 - Of course it will always remain a moot point whether Sale could have returned or not ; and if he had returned, whether it would have saved the Kabul force. From Sale's own account it is probable he could not have returned in a state of efficiency ; but there were at least two men with Sale's brigade who would have made all the difference : one — Henry Havelock — who would have recalled the discipline and spirit of...

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