With Clive in India: Or, The Beginnings of an EmpireScribner's, 1890 - 382 sider |
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Ambur Anandraz Angria Arcot arms army arrived artillery assault attack bastion battery besiegers boats body Bussy Calcutta camp Captain Clive Captain Marryat captured Carnatic cavalry Charlie Marryat Charlie's Chunda Sahib Colonel Forde column command defence ditch Dulab Dupleix enemy enemy's English Europeans feet fell fifty fight flank fleet force Fort St four French garrison gate governor grove guns Haines heard heavy Holwell horse horsemen Hossein hour hundred Sepoys India infantry killed Madras Maratta marched Meer Jaffier miles morning Muhammud Murari Reo musketry Muzaffar Jung nabob native night nizam officers Omichund once opened fire party Peters pirates Pondicherry position prisoners rajah Ramajee Punt ravelin reached returned river Riza Sahib round rushed sail sent sentries ship shot shouts side siege soldiers soon strong surrender taken Tanjore thousand tiger Tim Kelly took town Trichinopoli troops Tulagi walls whole wounded yards yer honour
Populære avsnitt
Side 9 - Not one in the school could compete with him in long-distance running, and when he was one of the hares there was but little chance for the hounds. He was a capital swimmer and one of the best boxers in the school. He had a reputation for being a leader in every mischievous prank ; but he was honourable and manly, would scorn to shelter himself under the semblance of a lie, and was a prime favourite with his masters as well as his schoolfellows.
Side 119 - They are wonderfully clever and ingenious," Cliarlie said. " Look what rough tools that man is working with, and what delicate and intricate work he is turning out. If these fellows could but fight as well as they work, and were but united among themselves, not only should we be unable to set a foot in India, but the emperor, with the enormous armies which he would be able to raise, would be able to threaten Europe. I suppose they never have been really good fighting men. Alexander, a couple of thousand...
Side 109 - Olive at Vendalur obtained intelligence that the enemy had assembled at Conjeveram. The troops had already marched twenty-five miles, but they had had a rest of five hours, and Clive started with them at once, and reached Conjeveram, twenty miles distant, at four in the morning. Finding that the enemy had again disappeared he ordered the troops to halt for a few hours. They had already marched forty-five miles in...
Side 244 - ... coming in. They collected some dust from the corner of the room, moistened it and rubbed it on to the wood so as to take away its freshness of appearance; and they then set to work with the piece of iron, which was of a curved shape, about three inches long, an inch wide, and an eighth of an inch thick. Taking it by turns they ground away the stone around the bottom of one of the bars.