 | India - 1858 - 486 pages
...three limits got safe, over to the opposite side of the river, but were met there by two fieldpieces, guarded by a number of cavalry and infantry. Before...these boats had got a mile down the stream, half our small party were either killed or wounded, and two of our boats had been swamped. We had now only one... | |
 | History - 1858 - 1010 pages
...three boats got safe over to the opposite side of the river, but were met there by two field-pieces, guarded by a number of cavalry and infantry. Before...these boats had got a mile down the stream half our small party were either killed or wounded and two of our boats had been swamped. We had now only one... | |
 | Noah Alfred Chick - India - 1859 - 1010 pages
...numbers of cavalry and infantry. Before the boats had gone a mile down the stream half of our small party were either killed or wounded, and two of our...boat crowded with wounded, and having on board more men than she could carry ; the two guns followed us the whole of that day, the infantry fired on us... | |
 | Oudh (India) - 1877 - 720 pages
...three boats got safe over to the opposite side of the river, but were met there by two field-pieces, guarded by a number of cavalry and infantry. Before...stream, half our party were either killed or wounded, aud two of our boats had been swamped. We had now only one boat crowded with wounded, and having on... | |
 | Thomas Archer (historical writer.) - 1883 - 754 pages
...three boats got safely over to the opposite side of the river, but were met there by two field-pieces, guarded by a number of cavalry and infantry. Before...these boats had got a mile down the stream, half our small party were either killed or wounded, and two of our boats had been swamped. We had now only one... | |
 | Thomas Archer - Great Britain - 1883 - 766 pages
...number of cavalry and infantry. Before the«1 boats had got a mile down the stream, halt our small party were either killed or wounded, and two of our boats had been swam{>cfl. We had now only one boat, crowded with wounded, and having on board more than she could... | |
 | Sir George Forrest - India - 1904 - 594 pages
...numbers of cavalry and infantry. Before the boats had gone a mile down the stream half of our small party were either killed or wounded, and two of our boats had been swamped." VOL. I. 2 G her rudder and sent her spinning round, but she floated on, followed by some sturdy swimmers,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1858 - 1056 pages
...three boats got safe over to the opposite side of the river, but were met there by two field-pieces, guarded by a number of cavalry and infantry. Before...these boats had got a mile down the stream half our small party were either killed or wounded and two of our boats had been swamped. We had now only one... | |
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The men jumped out of the boats, and instead of trying to get the boats loose from their moorings swam to the first boat they saw loose. Only three boats got safe over to the opposite side of the river, but were met there by two field-pieces, guarded... 