... loaded muskets, and every shot told on the living mass below. After three desperate onsets, the besiegers retired behind the ditch. The struggle lasted about an hour. Four hundred of the assailants fell. The garrison lost only five or six men. The... Historical Essays - Page 203by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1921 - 501 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 514 pages
...assailants fell. The garrison lost only five or six men. The besieged passed an anxious night, looking for a renewal of the attack. But when day broke, the enemy...retired, leaving to the English several guns and a large quartity of ammunition. The news was received at Fort St. George with transports of joy and pride.... | |
| Pharoah and Co - 1855 - 764 pages
...fell. The garrison lost only five or six men. " The besieged passed an anxious night, looking for a renewal of the attack. But when day broke, the enemy...several guns, and a large quantity of ammunition. " Tiui news was received at Fort St. George with transports of joy and pride. Clive was justly regarded... | |
| Pharoah and Co - 1855 - 768 pages
...fell. The garrison lost only five or six men. " The besieged passed an anxious night, looking for a renewal of the attack. But when day broke, the enemy...retired, leaving to the English several guns, and a largo quantity of ammunition. and pride. Clive was justly regarded as a man equal to any command. Two... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 pages
...assailants fell. The garrison lost only five or six men. The besieged passed an anxious night, looking for a renewal of the attack. But when day broke the enemy...Fort St. George with transports of joy and pride. Olive was justly regarded as a man equal to any command. Two hundred English soldiers and seven hundred... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...assailants fell. The garrison lost only five or six men. The besieged passed an anxious night, looking for a more certain indication of a weak and ill-герц....better name, we will venture 10 christen Bntwelliim. Olive was justly regarded as a man equal to any command. Two hundred English soldiers and seven hundred... | |
| Charles William Jones - 1859 - 120 pages
...assailants fell. The garrison lost only five or six men. The besieged passed an anxious night, looking for a renewal of the attack. But when day broke, the enemy...English several guns and a large quantity of ammunition. MACAULAY'S ESSAYS. LESSON XIV. ENGLAND AND INDIA. FOR a hundred years after the battle of Plassey the... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 950 pages
...assailants fell. The garrison lost only five or six men. The besieged passed an anxious night, looking for a renewal of the attack. But when day broke, the enemy...English soldiers and seven hundred sepoys were sent to hin., and with this force lie instantly commenced offenshe operations. He took the fort of Timery,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1008 pages
...assailants fell. The garrison lost only five or six men. The besieged passed an anxious night, looking for a renewal of the attack. But when day broke, the enemy...were no more to be seen. They had retired, leaving to-the English several guns and a large quantity of ammunition. The news was received at Fort St. George... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 466 pages
...lost only five or six men. The besieged passed an anxious night, looking for a renewal of the attaek. But when day broke the enemy were no more to be seen....guns and a large quantity of ammunition. The news was reeeived at Fort St. George with transports of joy and pride. Clive was justly regarded as a man equal... | |
| James Hamilton Fyfe - 1864 - 366 pages
...confusion. After three desperate onsets, the besiegers gave up the attack, struck their camp, and retreated, leaving to the English several guns and a large quantity of ammunition. The tide of victory now turned — the positions of the parties were reversed — the English became the... | |
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