Identifier: battlesofninetee01forb (find matches)
Title: Battles of the nineteenth century
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Forbes, Archibald, 1838-1900 Atteridge, A. Hilliard (Andrew Hilliard)
Subjects: Battles Military history, Modern
Publisher: London New York : Cassell and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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-, for, owing to somehitch, they had not been able to move with thedawn. The consequence Avas that before they 13? men, leaping down after them, planted themagainst the scarp and swarmed up. Nicholsonhimself, the Lion of the Punjab, as he waswell called, was the first to mount the breach,waving with his sword for his men to follow.In a similar manner Lieutenant Fitzgerald
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OUR DEVOTED MEN WORKED ON WITH A WILL (/. I31). had reached the crest of the glacis, with theEngineers and laddermen in front, numbers ofthem had fallen under the truly infernal showerof bullets that was rained upon them from thewalls. For several minutes the first columnfound it impossible to lower the ladders anddescend into the ditch while the fiendish-lookingrebels cursed and yelled at them from the otherside, daring them to come on. Presently theladders were thrown into the ditch, and the led the escalade of the adjoining bastion ancffell mortally wounded. With a rousing cheerthe stormers dashed over the debris of thebreach like an irresistible wave bursting in abreakwater wall. For a few minutes there wasa wild chaos of cheers, groans, yells, blazing ofmusketry, and clash of crossing bayonets, andthen the rebels turned and fled like a pack ofwolves, leaving this portion of their rampartsin possession of the victorious Nicholson. Meanwhile, the second column on the extremeleft ha

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