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Page 132 - Taptee. It stands on a lofty mountain in this range, and consists of one complete inner fort which fronts to the south, where the rock is most steep ; and an outer fort, which covers the inner to the north-west and north.
Page 206 - These English are a strange people, and their general is a wonderful man. They came here in the morning, looked at the Pettah wall, walked over it, killed all the garrison, and returned to breakfast. What can withstand them ?' The strong fortress of Ahmednuggur was next attacked, and compelled to surrender.
Page 27 - The Sultan ordered all the inhabitants to quit the place (Delhi), and upon some delay being evinced he made a proclamation stating that what person soever, being an inhabitant of that city, should be found in any of its houses or streets should receive condign punishment.
Page 27 - ... the Emperor commanded the bedridden man to be projected from a balista, and the blind one to be dragged by his feet to Daulatabad, which is at the distance of ten days, and he was so dragged ; but his limbs dropping off by the way, only one of his legs was brought to the place intended, and was then thrown into it ; for the order had been that they should go to this place. When I entered Delhi it was almost a desert.
Page 207 - The sight was enough to appal the stoutest heart. Thirty thousand horse in one magnificent mass, crowded the right ; a dense array of infantry, powerfully supported by artillery, formed the centre and left ; the gunners were beside their pieces, and a hundred pieces of cannon in front of the line, stood ready to vomit forth death upon the assailants. Wellesley paused for a moment, impressed but not daunted by the sight; his whole force, as Colonel Stevenson had not come up, did not exceed eight thousand...
Page 212 - I formed the army in two lines : the infantry in the first, the cavalry in the second, and supporting the right; and the Mogul and Mysore cavalry the left, nearly parallel to that of the enemy ; with the right rather advanced in order to press upon the enemy's left.
Page 216 - Sing and the killadar, however personally brave, do not seem to have been able to frame any regular plan for the defence of the inner wall, or to have infused much of their own spirit into their sepoys : the former is said to have killed or wounded two or three of our men before he fell.
Page 43 - Ambar, whether as a commander or as a strategist, was without an equal in the military art. He kept the bad characters of that country (scil. the Deccan) in perfect order, and to the end of his days lived in honour. There is no record elsewhere in history of an Abyssinian slave attaining to such a position as was held by him.
Page 212 - ... and other light troops Their line extended above five miles, having in their rear the village and extensive gardens and enclosures of Argaum ; and in their front a plain, which...
Page 28 - Daulatabad, is a mass of rock which raises its head towards heaven. The rock has been scarped throughout its circumference, which measures 5000 legal yards, to a depth which ensures the retention of water in the ditch at the foot of the escarpment. The escarpment is so smooth and even that neither an ant nor a snake could scale it. Its height is 140 cubits, and around its base a ditch forty cubits in width and thirty in depth has been dug in the solid rock. Through the centre of the hill a dark spiral...