Records of Service and Campaigning in Many Lands, 第 2 卷Hurst and Blackett, Limited, 1887 |
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4th Punjab Rifles 93rd Highlanders 9th Lancers advance amongst appeared army arrived assault attack Balaklava Bareilly battery battle Bengal Horse Artillery breach Brigadier Hope Brigadier Troup bullet camp Captain Cafe cholera close Colonel Brind Colonel Ewart Colonel Leith Hay column command commenced Crimea Depôt detachment Division duty encamped enemy enemy's fight flank force forward front garrison head-quarters heavy guns hills honour Horse Artillery guns hospital hot season hundred India infantry joined jungle Kadikoi killed Landour Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel light guns Lucknow main body Martinière McBean ment miles Mooltani Horse morning moved Native Cavalry Naval Brigade never night opened fire party Peshawur plain position Principal Medical Officer rear rebel regi regiment retired road round shot Russian Sebastopol Secunderbagh sent sick side siege of Lucknow Sir Colin soldier Subathu Surgeon tents tion troops Umballa village wall wounded
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第 138 頁 - I passed the early and perilous part of this war, I have now to take leave of you. In a few hours I shall be on board ship, never to see you again as a body. A long farewell ! I am now old, and shall not be called to serve any more, and nothing will remain to me but the memory of my campaigns, and of the enduring, hardy, generous soldiers with whom I have been associated, whose name and glory will long be kept alive in the hearts of our countrymen.
第 139 頁 - Though I shall be gone, the thought of you will go with me wherever I may be, and cheer my old age with a glorious recollection of dangers affronted and of hardships endured.
第 138 頁 - ... glory will long be kept alive in the hearts of our countrymen. When you go home, as you gradually fulfil your term of service, each to his family and his cottage, you will tell the story of your immortal advance in that victorious echelon up the heights of Alma, and of the old Brigadier who led you, and who loved you so well ; your children, and your children's children, will repeat the tale to other generations, when only a few lines of history will remain to record all the enthusiasm and discipline...
第 244 頁 - ... at the present moment in India, but also during the whole of the campaign in the Crimea. I thought such an arrangement would be agreeable to yourself, and I know that it is the highest compliment that Her Majesty could pay to the 93rd Highlanders to see their dear old chief at their head...
第 409 頁 - League for a period of ten years, at the end of which time the plan will be subject to reconsideration and revision.
第 139 頁 - A pipe will never sound near me without carrying me back to those bright days when I was at your head, and wore the bonnet which you gained for me, and the honourable decorations on my breast, many of which I owe to your conduct. Brave soldiers, kind comrades, farewell!
第 187 頁 - The enemy you are going to meet will stand and fire at you as long as you stand to fire at them. I must have none of that ; there must be no hesitation, no halting, but a steady and constant advance, and whenever you get within charging distance, at them with the bayonet, and they'll never wait to meet you.
第 172 頁 - They should know that there is no hatred to a brown skin — none ; but the greatest wish on their Queen's part to see them happy, contented, and flourishing. ' We are delighted to hear such good accounts of Sir Colin Campbell, to whom we ask Lord Canning to remember us most kindly. We can well imagine his delight at seeing his gallant and splendid 93rd, whom we saw at Gosport in June just before they left.
第 409 頁 - At Christmas I shall send home a thousand or twelve hundred pounds for my father, and you all. I cannot tell you what a comfort it is to me to find that I shall be able to do this. It reconciles me to all the pains — acute enough, sometimes, God knows — of banishment.
第 147 頁 - French admiral, in taking leave, addressed the regiment as follows: " officers and soldiers of the 91st, the time ia near when we must part, and I now offer you my sincere thanks for your admirable discipline and for your hearty support. In Greece just as in the Black Sea or before Sebastopol the English and French troops have proved the firmness of their alliance in the midst of circumstances of the gravest nature. A cheer then for the united troops and old England.