Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India
Title | Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India PDF eBook |
Author | W. S. R. (William Stephen Raikes) Hodson |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2004-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781418106652 |
Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India
Title | Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India PDF eBook |
Author | George H. Hodson |
Publisher | Palala Press |
Pages | 458 |
Release | 2016-05-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781355073987 |
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Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India: Being Extracts from the Letters of the Late Major W.S.R. Hodson. Including a Personal Narrative of the Siege of Delhi and Capture of the King and Princes
Title | Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India: Being Extracts from the Letters of the Late Major W.S.R. Hodson. Including a Personal Narrative of the Siege of Delhi and Capture of the King and Princes PDF eBook |
Author | William Stephen Raikes Hodson |
Publisher | London : J.W. Parker |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 1859 |
Genre | India |
ISBN |
Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India
Title | Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India PDF eBook |
Author | William Stephen Raikes Hodson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 446 |
Release | 1864 |
Genre | India |
ISBN |
Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India
Title | Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India PDF eBook |
Author | W. S. R. Hodson |
Publisher | CreateSpace |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2015-03-25 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781507533444 |
"[...]evening of the 21st, as we rushed towards the guns in the most dense dust and smoke, and under an unprecedented fire of grape, our Sepoys again gave way and broke. It was a fearful crisis, but the bravery of the English regiments saved us. A ball struck my leg below the knee, but happily spared the bone. I was also knocked down twice, -once by a shell bursting so close to me as to kill the men behind me, and once by the explosion of a magazine. The wound in my leg is nothing, as you may judge when I tell you that I was on foot or horseback the whole of the two following days.... No efforts could bring the Sepoys forward, or half the loss might have been spared, had they rushed on with the bayonet.... Just as we were going into action, I stumbled on poor Carey, whom you may remember to have heard of at Price's at Rugby. On going over the field on the 30th, I found the body actually cut to pieces by the keen swords of the Sikhs, and[...]."
12 YEARS OF A SOLDIERS LIFE IN
Title | 12 YEARS OF A SOLDIERS LIFE IN PDF eBook |
Author | W[illiam] S[tephen] R[aikes] 18 Hodson |
Publisher | Wentworth Press |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 2016-08-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781372680649 |
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Hodson of Hodson's Horse; Or Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India
Title | Hodson of Hodson's Horse; Or Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India PDF eBook |
Author | William Stephen Raikes Hodson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 1885 |
Genre | India |
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