In the opposite direction the brigade of guards, under his royal highness the Duke of Cambridge, was engaged in a severe conflict. The enemy, under the cover of thick brushwood, advanced in two heavy bodies, and assaulted with great determination a small... British Almanac and Companion - Page 2371856Full view - About this book
| Henry Ottley - 1854 - 156 pages
...Duke of Cambridge, was engaged in a severe conflict. The enemy, under the cover of thick brushwood, advanced in two heavy bodies, and assaulted with great...of the 20th Regiment of the 4th Division, when they agaiu advanced and re-took the redoubt. This ground was afterwards occupied in gallant style by the... | |
| William Freke Williams - 1854 - 952 pages
...Duke of Cambridge, was engaged in a severe conflict. The enemy, under the cover of thick brushwood, advanced in two heavy bodies, and assaulted with great...until supported by a wing of the 20th regiment of the fourth division, when they again advanced and retook the redoubt. This ground was afterwards occupied... | |
| George Ryan - 1855 - 210 pages
...Duke of Cambridge, was engaged in a severe conflict. " The enemy, under the cover of thick brushwood, advanced in two heavy bodies, and assaulted with great...until supported by a wing of the 20th regiment of the fourth division, when they again advanced and retook the redoubt. " This ground was afterwards occupied... | |
| George Dodd - 1856 - 634 pages
...use of three little words in his dispatch. He said, in relation to the contest near the redoubt : ' The combat was most arduous ; and the brigade, after...when they again advanced and retook the redoubt.' All laudatory as was this, it yet contained the words 'obliged to retire;' and these words the Guards... | |
| Somerset John Gough Calthorpe - 1856 - 480 pages
...between them and the brigade of Guards. But further on in his Lordship's despatch he says that they were supported by a wing of the 20th regiment of the 4.th Division, which is perfectly correct, as I know myself from having witnessed them so doing. He next asserts that... | |
| War office - 1859 - 354 pages
...Duke of Cambridge, was engaged in a severe conflict. The enemy, under the cover of thick brushwood, advanced in two heavy bodies, and assaulted with great...until supported by a wing of the 20th regiment of the Fourth Division, when they agaiu advanced and retook the redovibt. This ground was afterwards occupied... | |
| Thomas Carter - 1860 - 742 pages
...Duke of Cambridge, was engaged in a severe conflict. " The enemy, under the cover of thick brushwood, advanced in two heavy bodies, and assaulted with great...most arduous, and the Brigade, after displaying the titmost steadiness and gallantry was obliged to retire before very superior numbers, until supported... | |
| Thomas Carter - 1861 - 228 pages
...Duke of Cambridge, was engaged in a severe conflict. The enemy, under the cover of thick brushwood, advanced in two heavy bodies, and assaulted with great...until supported by a wing of the 20th. Regiment of the Fourth Division, when they again advanced and re-took the redoubt. This ground was afterwards occupied... | |
| Thomas Carter - 1861 - 642 pages
...Duke of Cambridge, was engaged in a severe conflict. The enemy, under the cover of thick brushwood, advanced in two heavy bodies, and assaulted with great...until supported by a wing of the 20th. Regiment of the Fourth Division, when they again advanced and re-took the redoubt. This ground was afterwards occupied... | |
| Joseph Irving - 1871 - 1064 pages
...Duke of Cambridge, was engaged in a severe conflict. The enemy, under the cover of thick brushwood, advanced in two heavy bodies, and assaulted with great...a small redoubt which had been constructed for two gunĀ«, but was not armed. The combat was most arduous, and the briyade, after displaying the utmost... | |
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