Records of the 90th Regiment, (Perthshire Light Infantry): With Roll of Officers from 1795 to 1880Richardson, 1880 - 260 pages |
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90th Light Infantry 90th Regiment Alex Alum Bagh Andrew Wood Apsley Cherry army arrived artillery attack battalion battery brigade Brigadier-General camp Campbell cavalry Cawnpore Chas Clerk Rattray Colonel Graham Colonel Hill Colonel Wood column command Commander-in-Chief companies Conry corps David Hopkins despatch detachment Deverill Division doolies enemy enemy's Eyles flank force Fort Beaufort Fred French garrison goth guns H. R. Thurlow Hackett head-quarters heavy fire Henry honour Horse island John McNair John Wilson l.c. Capt l.g. Lt.Col laager Lieut Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Lieutenant-General Lord Lord Lynedoch Lucknow Mackenzie Majesty's Major Barnston Major-General marched Marcus Geale Mark Napier Minorca Moncrieffe moved Napier non-commissioned officers Palmer Perryn picquet position Preedy Pymr Q.-M. P. Maitland rear rebels received remained Rennie Robt Rogers Rowland Hill sent Sir James Outram soldiers Surg troops Vaughan W. P. Purnell Wilmer wounded Zulus
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Page 126 - The Commander of the Forces congratulates the army on the result of the attack of yesterday. " The brilliant assault and occupation of the Malakhoff by our gallant allies obliged the enemy to abandon the works they have so long held with such bravery and determination. " The Commander of the Forces returns his thanks to the general officers and officers and men of the Second and Light Divisions, who advanced and attacked with such gallantry the works of the Redan. He regrets, from the formidable...
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Page 200 - The rear of the enclosures of the latter being closed " in by the city, through which approach would have been " dangerous to an assailant. " These lines were flanked by numerous bastions, and " rested at one end on the Goomtee, and at the other on " the great buildings of the street called the Huzrut " Gunge, all of which were strongly fortified, and flanked " the street in every direction.
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Page 184 - I moved out at 5 AM in the hope of surprising them at daybreak, and intercepting their retreat to the city, with a force detailed in the accompanying divisional order, which I have this day issued, and • Since ascertained to h«ve beea 00)7 four ; all of which were captured.
Page 122 - ... pistols much opportunity of using them in such a rapid contest. They fell like heroes, and many a gallant soldier with them. The bodies of English and Russians inside the Redan, locked in an embrace which death could not relax, but had rather cemented all the closer, lay next day inside the Redan as evidences of the terrible animosity of the struggle. But the solid weight of the advancing mass, urged on, and fed each moment from the rear by company after company and battalion after battalion,...