 | Books - 1843 - 894 pages
...rilling up ravines, and destroying gardens and cutting down groves, raising the parapets to six or seven feet high, repairing and widening the ramparts, extending...the fourth with an outwork, and excavating a ditch, ten feet in depth and twelve feet in width, round the whole of the walla: the place was thus secure... | |
 | Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - History - 1843 - 518 pages
...filling up ravines, and destroying gardens, cutting down groves, raising the parapets to six or seven feet high, repairing and widening the ramparts, extending...the fourth with an outwork, and excavating a ditch ten feet in depth and twelve feet in width round the whole of the walls ; the place was thus secure... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1843 - 942 pages
...filling up ravines, and destroying gardens and cutting down groves, raising the parapets to six or seven feet high, repairing and widening the ramparts, extending...the fourth with an outwork, and excavating a ditch, ten feet in depth and twelve feet in width, round the whole of the walls : the place was thus secure... | |
 | Edward Thornton - India - 1845 - 578 pages
...In the constructive they had embraced the raising the parapets to the height of six or seven feet, repairing and widening the ramparts, extending the...the fourth with an outwork, and excavating a ditch ten feet in depth and twelve in width round the whole of the walls. " The place," observes Sir Robert... | |
 | William Owen - Baptists - 1858 - 248 pages
...filling up ravines, and destroying gardens and cutting down groves, raising the parapets to six or seven feet high, repairing and widening the ramparts, extending...the fourth with an outwork, and excavating a ditch, ten feet in depth and twelve feet in width, round the whole of the walls : the place was thus secure... | |
 | Sir John William Kaye - Afghan Wars - 1858 - 488 pages
...filling up ravines and destroying gardens, and cutting down groves, raising the parapets to six or seven feet high, repairing and widening the ramparts, extending...the fourth with an outwork, and excavating a ditch ten feet in depth and twelve feet in width round the whole of the walls. The place was thus secure... | |
 | Leopold von Orlich - India - 1859 - 574 pages
...up ravines and destroying gardens , and cutting down groves , raising the parapets to six or seven feet high , repairing and widening the ramparts, extending...the fourth with an outwork and excavating a ditch ten feet in depth and twelve feet in width round the whole of the walls. The place was thus secure... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - 936 pages
...filling up ravines, destroying gardens, and cutting down groves ; raising the parapets to six or seven feet high ; repairing and widening the ramparts ;...the fourth with an outwork ; and excavating a ditch, three feet in depth and twelve in width, round the whole of the walls. General Sale was summoned, by... | |
 | Edward Henry Nolan - 1878 - 446 pages
...filling up ravines, and destroying gardens and cutting down groves, raising the parapets to six or seven feet high, repairing and widening the ramparts, extending...the fourth with an outwork, and excavating a ditch, ten feet iu depth and twelve feet in width, round the whole of the nails : the place was thus, secure... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Bills, Legislative - 1843 - 478 pages
...filling up ravines, and destroying gardens and cutting down groves, raising the parapets to six or seven feet high, repairing and widening the ramparts, extending...the fourth with an outwork, and excavating a ditch, ten feet in depth and twelve feet in •width, round the whole of the walls : the place was thus secure... | |
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I may state, they consisted in the destruction of an immense quantity of cover for the enemy, extending to the demolition of forts and old walls, filling up ravines, and destroying gardens and cutting down groves, raising the parapets to six or seven... 
