Journal of the United Service Institution of India, 19-20권 |
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action advance advantage arms army corps artillery attack balloon Baluchis battalion batteries battle Bengal Bhils brigade British officers Burma camp campaign Captain carried Colonel column command considered counterscarp cover cupolas defence detached difficulty distance drill duties effect efficiency enemy enemy's enlist entrenchments European favour field fighting fire flank force fortress front frontier garrison German give ground guncotton guns Havildars hills Hindustanis horse breeding horses increased India infantry instruction Jalalabad Jemadar lance large number leader Lushais Madras manœuvres ment mètres miles military musketry native cavalry native officers necessary non-commissioned officers obtained peace Peshawar position possible practice present Punjab races railway ranks rear recruits regards regiments remounts render reserve rifle Russian sepoy shot Sikhs smokeless smokeless powder soldiers Sowar squadron sufficient supply tactical target Tashkent tion trenches tribes troops turret village warfare Yusafzai
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64 페이지 - ... till they could all play very near, or altogether as well as myself. This done, say the enemy were forty thousand strong, we twenty would come into the field the tenth of March, or thereabouts; and we would challenge twenty of the enemy; they could not in their honour refuse us: Well, we would kill them; challenge twenty more, kill them; twenty more, kill them; twenty more, kill them too...
6 페이지 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
64 페이지 - I will tell you, sir, by the way of private, and under seal, I am a gentleman, and live here obscure, and to myself: but were I known to his majesty, and the lords, observe me, I would undertake, upon this poor head and life, for the public benefit of the state, not only to spare the entire lives of...
64 페이지 - Why thus, sir. I would select nineteen more, to myself, throughout the land; gentlemen they should be of good spirit, strong and able constitution; I would choose them by an instinct, a character that I have: and I would teach these...
64 페이지 - March, or thereabouts; and we would challenge twenty of the enemy; they could not in their honor refuse us; well, we would kill them: challenge twenty more, kill them; twenty more, kill them; twenty more, kill them too; and thus would we kill every man his twenty a day, that's twenty score; twenty score, that's two hundred; two hundred a day, five days a thousand; forty thousand; forty times five, five times forty, two hundred days kills them all up by computation.
183 페이지 - Poolesville. I ordered the charge, which was responded to in handsome style by the advance squadron (Irving's) of Lee's brigade, which drove back the enemy's cavalry upon the column of infantry advancing to occupy the crest from which the cavalry were driven. Quick as thought Lee's sharpshooters sprang to the ground, and engaging the infantry skirmishers, held them in check till the artillery in advance came up, which, under the gallant Pelham, drove back the enemy's force upon his batteries beyond...
64 페이지 - Why thus, sir. I would select nineteen, more, to myself, throughout the land; gentlemen they should be of good spirit, strong, and able constitution, I would choose them by an instinct, 65 a character, that I have...
64 페이지 - ... twenty score; twenty score, that's two hundred ;' two hundred a day, five days a thousand; forty thousand ; forty times five, five times forty, two hundred days kills them all up by computation. And this will I venture my poor gentleman-like carcase to perform, provided there be no treason practised upon us, by fair and discreet manhood; that is, civilly by the sword.
139 페이지 - A trader loads his mules at one of our chief towns, and starts across country (though there have been extreme cases of the offence taking place on the highroad) to a village he hopes to reach by nightfall. On the road, in some lonely spot, he is seized, gagged, and taken aside into the jungle or some mountain nook, and there kept close under drawn swords till dark, when the whole party starts by well-known, but unfrequented, tracks to the mountainous river-board, where according to one of Major Adams'...
73 페이지 - Dont waste your time at family funerals grieving for your relatives: attend to life, not to death: there are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it, and better.