 | Edmund Burke - History - 1843 - 942 pages
...which the annexed reports and plans of Captain Broadfoot contain ample details. Generally, I may state, they consisted in the destruction of an immense quantity...gardens, and cutting down groves, raising the parapets to six or seven feet high, repairing and widening the ramparts, extending the bastions, retrenching three... | |
 | Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - History - 1843 - 518 pages
...which the annexed reports and plans of Captain Broadfoot contain ample details. Generally, I may state, they consisted in the destruction of an immense quantity...walls, filling up ravines, and destroying gardens, cutting down groves, raising the parapets to six or seven feet high, repairing and widening the ramparts,... | |
 | Books - 1843 - 894 pages
...which the annexed reports and plans of Captain Broadfoot contain ample details. Generally, I may state, they consisted in the destruction of an immense quantity...cover for the enemy, extending to the demolition of flirts and old walls, filling up ravines, and destroying gardens, and cutting down groves, raising... | |
 | William Owen - Baptists - 1858 - 248 pages
...which the annexed reports and plans of Captain Broadfoot contain ample details. Generally, I may state, they consisted in the destruction of an immense quantity...gardens and cutting down groves, raising the parapets to six or seven feet high, repairing and widening the ramparts, extending the bastions, retrenching three... | |
 | Sir John William Kaye - Afghan Wars - 1858 - 488 pages
...reference to these works, General Sale says, in his official report : ' ' Generally I may state that they consisted in the destruction of an immense quantity...gardens, and cutting down groves, raising the parapets to six or seven feet high, repairing and widening the ramparts, extending the bastions, retrenching three... | |
 | Leopold von Orlich - India - 1859 - 574 pages
...»erben, ffiic Säle in feinem »on ^arelocf abgefaßten 23сГ1ф( fagt : »Generally I may state that they consisted in the destruction of an immense quantity of cover for the ennemy , extending of the demolition of forts and old walls , filling up ravines and destroying gardens... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - 936 pages
...for the troops in Cabul. On the 9th of January, works had been completed by Captain Broadfoot, which consisted in the destruction of an immense quantity...enemy — extending to the demolition of forts and old Avails ; filling up ravines, destroying gardens, and cutting down groves ; raising the parapets to... | |
 | Edward Henry Nolan - 1878 - 446 pages
...which the aunexed reports and plans of Captain Broadfoot contain ample details. Generally, I may state, they consisted in the destruction of an immense quantity of cover for tbc enemy, extending to the demolition of forts and old walls, filling up ravines, and destroying gardens... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Bills, Legislative - 1843 - 478 pages
...which the annexed reports and plans of Captain Broadfoot contain ample details. Generally, I may state, they consisted in the destruction of an immense quantity...gardens and cutting down groves, raising the parapets to six or seven feet high, repairing and widening the ramparts, extending the bastions, retrenching three... | |
 | Asia - 1842 - 694 pages
...which the annexed reports and plans of Capt. Broadfoot contain ample details. Generally, I may state, they consisted in the destruction of an immense quantity...gardens, and cutting down groves, raising the parapets to six or seven feet high, repairing and widening the ramparts, extending the bastions, retrenching three... | |
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Works had in the mean time been completed, of which the annexed reports and plans of Captain Broadfoot contain ample details. Generally, I may state, they consisted in the destruction of an immense quantity of cover for the enemy, extending to the demolition... 