 ... fair-haired English pressed thickest together. Along the stronger half of the battlements, and for the period of half an hour, the conflict raged sublime in all its terrors. The parapets were sprinkled with blood from end to end ; the trenches were...  The Calcutta Review - Page 5531849Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Davey Cunningham - Punjab (India) - 1849 - 478 pages
...parapets were sprinkled with blood from end to end ; the trenches were filled with the dead and the dying. Amid the deafening roar of cannon, and the multitudinous...tremendous conflict. But gradually each defensible 1845, 1846. position was captured, and the enemy was pressed towards the scareely fordable river ;... | |
 | Hugh Murray - India - 1850 - 776 pages
...cllasprinkled with blood from end to end ; the trenches were JJJSSct' ^" filled with the dead and the dying. Amid the deafening roar of cannon, and the multitudinous...exploding magazines of powder, threw bursting shells, beams of wood and banks of earth, high above the agitated sea of smoke and flame which enveloped the... | |
 | 1855 - 800 pages
...parapets were sprinkled with blood from end to end; the trenches were filled with the dead and the dying. Amid the deafening roar of cannon, and the multitudinous...exploding magazines of powder threw bursting shells, beams of wood and banks of earth, high above the agitated sea of smoke and flame which enveloped the... | |
 | Hugh Murray - India - 1857 - 746 pages
...parapets were sprinkled with blood from end to end; the trenches were filled with the dead and the dying. Amid the deafening roar of cannon, and the multitudinous...exploding magazines of powder threw bursting shells, beams of wood and banks of earth, high above the agitated sea of smoke and flame which enveloped the... | |
 | Hugh Murray - India - 1859 - 752 pages
...were sprinkled with blood from end to end; the trenches were filled with the dead and the dying. Arnid the deafening roar of cannon, and the multitudinous...exploding magazines of powder threw bursting shells, beams of wood and banks of earth, high above the agitated sea of smoke and flame which enveloped the... | |
 | William Owen - Baptists - 1858 - 248 pages
...deafening roar of cannon, and the multitudinous fire of musketry, the shouts of triumph or of scorn were heard, and the flashing of innumerable swords was yet visible ; or from time to time magazines of powder threw bursting shells, and beams of wood, and banks of earth, high above the agitated... | |
 | John Garrett - India - 1865 - 366 pages
...dying. Amid tho deafening roar of cannon, and multitudinous fire of musketry, tha yhouts of trinmph or of scorn were yet heard, and the flashing of innumerable swords waa yet visible ; or from tima to time exploding magazines of powder, . threw bursting shells, beams... | |
 | John Shaw Banks - India - 1880 - 318 pages
...parapets were sprinkled with blood from end to end ; the trenches were filled with the dead and dying. Amid the deafening roar of cannon, and the multitudinous...all the din and tumult of the tremendous conflict.' * By eleven o'clock the issue was decided. The horse artillery played on the Sikhs as they attempted... | |
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