Descriptive Sketches, Illustrating Mr. William Simpson's Drawings of the Seat of War in the EastP. and D. Colnaghi and Company, 1855 - 112 من الصفحات |
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11th Hussars admirable Allies Alma arms Army artillery Balaklava battle battle of Inkermann beneath Brigadier-General British camp Cape Chersonese Captain centre charge cheer cliff Colonel command compelled Cossacks Crimea defences distance Dockyard Creek Dragoons drawing Duke of Cambridge East enemy enemy's English Enniskilleners extreme right fell fire flank fleet force foreground Fourth Division French batteries front gallant ground Guards guns harbour heart HEAVY CAVALRY BRIGADE heights Highlanders hill horse infantry Inkermann Kadikoi Light Cavalry Brigade Light Division Lord Cardigan Lord Lucan Lord Raglan loss miles musketry Naval night numbers officers port position rear redoubts regiments rendered retreat rifle-pits Rifles right attack road Russian Russian cavalry scarcely scene Sebastopol Second Division seen shell ships shore shot side siege Sir Colin Sir George Brown Sir George Cathcart smoke soldiers squadrons Tchernaya tents terrible town troops Turks valley winter Woronzoff Woronzoff Road wounded yards Zouaves
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الصفحة 10 - And bore him to a chapel nigh the field, A broken chancel with a broken cross, That stood on a dark strait of barren land : On one side lay the Ocean, and on one Lay a great water, and the moon was full.
الصفحة 87 - STILL stands the forest primeval; but far away from its shadow, Side by side, in their nameless graves, the lovers are sleeping. Under the humble walls of the little Catholic church-yard, In the heart of the city, they lie, unknown and unnoticed. Daily the tides of life go ebbing and flowing beside them, Thousands of throbbing hearts, where theirs are at rest and...
الصفحة 111 - The mariner remembers when a child, On his first voyage he saw it fade and sink ; And when, returning from adventures wild, He saw it rise again o'er ocean's brink. Steadfast, serene, immovable, the same Year after year, through all the silent night Burns on for evermore that quenchless flame, Shines on that inextinguishable light...
الصفحة 81 - Russian name, the miscreants poured a murderous volley of grape and canister on the mass of struggling men and horses, mingling friend and foe in one common ruin ! It was as much as our heavy cavalry brigade could do to cover the retreat of the miserable remnants of that band of heroes as they returned to the place they had so lately quitted in all the pride of life. At thirty-five minutes past eleven not a British soldier, except the dead and dying, was left in front of these bloody Muscovite guns.
الصفحة 80 - We saw them riding through the guns, as I have said ; to our delight we saw them returning after breaking through a column of Russian infantry, and scattering them like chaff, when the flank fire of the battery on the hill swept them down, scattered and broken as they were. Wounded men and dismounted troopers flying towards us told the sad tale.
الصفحة 17 - Half-way down the height and across its front was a trench of the extent of some hundred yards, to afford cover against an advance up the even, steep slope of the hill. On the right, and a little retired, was a powerful covered battery, armed with heavy guns, which flanked the whole of the right of the position. " Artillery, at the same time, was posted at the points that best commanded the passage of the river and its approaches generally. " On the slopes of these hills (forming a...
الصفحة 16 - ... at a salient pinnacle, where their right rested, and whence the descent to the plain was more gradual. The front was about two miles in extent. Across the mouth of this great opening is a lower ridge at different heights, varying from 60 to 150 feet, parallel to the river, and at distances from it of from 600 to 800 yards.
الصفحة 67 - Enniskillencrs went right at the centre of the Russian cavalry. The space between them was only a few hundred yards ; it was scarce enough to let the horses " gather way," nor had the men quite space sufficient for the full play of their sword arms.
الصفحة 36 - From some misconception of the instruction to advance, the Lieutenant-General considered that he was bound to attack at all hazards, and he accordingly ordered Major-General the Earl of Cardigan to move forward with the Light Brigade.
الصفحة 59 - Within a long recess a bay there lies, Edged round with cliffs high pointing to the skies, The jutting shores that swell on either side Contract its mouth, and break the rushing tide. Our eager sailors seize the fair retreat, And bound within the port their crowded fleet ; For here retired the sinking billows sleep, And smiling calmness silvered o'er the deep. I only in the bay refused to moor, And fixed, without, my halsers to the shore.