 | Scotland - 1897 - 456 pages
...sepoys making off with a standard, which I determined must be captured, so I rode after the rebels and overtook them, and while wrenching the staff out of...fortunately for me it missed fire, and I carried off the standard.' When it was at last decided to reduce Lucknow, Roberts returned thither with Hope Grant,... | |
 | Albert Shaw - Periodicals - 1900
...Sepoys making off with a standard, which I determined must l>e captured, so I rode after the rebels and overtook them, and while wrenching the staff out of...and fired ; fortunately for me it missed fire, and I curried off the standard. He adds : " For these two acts I WES awarded the Victoria Cross." Lord Roberts... | |
 | Earl Frederick Sleigh Roberts Roberts - India - 1898 - 712 pages
...sepoys making off with a standard, which I determined must be captured, so I rode after the rebels and overtook them, and while wrenching the staff out of...fortunately for me it missed fire, and I carried' off the standard.* Tyrrell Ross, attracted by a party of men in the rear of the squadron bending over the fallen... | |
 | Voyages and travels - 1900 - 372 pages
...Sepoys making off with a standard which I determined must be captured, so I rode after the rebels and overtook them, and while wrenching the staff out of...fortunately for me it missed fire and I carried off the standard. He adds : " For these two acts I was awarded the Victoria Cross." The time came when Lord... | |
 | Robert Shields - England - 1900 - 370 pages
...Sepoys making off with a standard which I determined must be captured, so I rode after the rebels and overtook them, and while wrenching the staff out of...fortunately for me it missed fire and I carried off the standard. He adds : " For these two acts I was awarded the Victoria Cross." The time came when Lord... | |
 | Albert Shaw - American literature - 1900 - 810 pages
...Sepoys making off with a standard, which I determined must lie captured, so I rode after the rebels and overtook them, and while wrenching the staff out of...and fired ; fortunately for me it missed fire, and 1 carried off the standard. He adds : " For these two acts I wes awarded the Victoria Cross." Lord... | |
 | Sir George Forrest - Generals - 1901 - 532 pages
...sepoys making off with a standard, which I determined must be captured, so I rode after the rebels and overtook them, and while wrenching the staff out of...fortunately for me it missed fire, and I carried off the standard. A brief note states, " For these two acts I was awarded the Victoria Cross." A naval officer... | |
 | American literature - 1901 - 794 pages
...Turning he perceived a mutineers' standard guarded by two Sepoys. He attacked them, sabred one man, " The other put his musket close to my body and fired...fortunately for me it missed fire, and I carried off the standard. For these two acts," says a modest footnote, " I was awarded the Victoria Cross." The matter... | |
 | England - 1901 - 730 pages
...Turning, he perceived a mutineers' standard guarded by two Sepoys. He attacked them, sabred one man, " the other put his musket close to my body and fired...fortunately for me it missed fire, and I carried off the standard." " For these two acts," says a modest footnote, " I was awarded the Victoria Cross." The... | |
 | George Devereux Oswell - Great Britain - 1908 - 204 pages
...Sepoys making off with a Standard, which I determined must be captured, so I rode after the rebels and overtook them, and while wrenching the staff out of...fortunately for me it missed fire, and I carried off the Standard. For these two acts I was awarded the Victoria Cross.' And who will deny that it was a distinction... | |
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... peril from a sepoy who was attacking him with his fixed bayonet, and had I not helped the man and disposed of his opponent he must have been killed. The next moment I descried in the distance two sepoys making off with a standard, which I determined... 
