 | 1827 - 576 pages
...work of magic or enchantment. • *• • * • ***** ' When a sortie had interrupted their labours, the trenches were found to be a succession of holes,...afford shelter, both from the weather and the fire of an enemy ; even a shell lighting in the trench could at most but kill two men. As it is not the Burmese... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1827 - 650 pages
...they were aware of such a visit, and drove the whole line from their cover with considerable loss. ' The trenches were found to be a succession of holes,...afford shelter, both from the weather and the fire of an enemy ; even a shell lighting in the trench could at most but kill two men. As it is not the Burmese... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1827 - 648 pages
...they were aware of sucli a visit, and drove the whole line from their cover with considerable loss. ' The trenches were found to be a succession of holes,...afford shelter, both from the weather and the fire of an enemy ; even a shell lighting in the trench could at most but kill two men. As it is not the Burmese... | |
 | Snodgrass (Major, John James) - Anglo-Burmese War, 1st, 1824-1826 - 1827 - 348 pages
...find, retired unmolested before the numerous bodies which were now forming on every side around them. The trenches were found to be a succession of holes,...afford shelter, both from the weather and the fire of an enemy ; even a shell lighting in the trench could at most but kill two men. As it is not the Burmese... | |
 | John James Snodgrass - 1827 - 360 pages
...find, retired unmolested before the numerous bodies which were now forming on every side around them. The trenches were found to be a succession of holes,...afford shelter, both from the weather and the fire of an enemy ; even a shell lighting in the trench could at most but kill two men. As it is not the Burmese... | |
 | Snodgrass (Major, John James) - Anglo-Burmese War, 1st, 1824-1826 - 1827 - 344 pages
...find, retired unmolested before the numerous bodies which were now forming on every side around them. The trenches were found to be a succession of holes,...and excavated, so as to afford shelter, both from tke weather and the fire of an enemy ; even a shell lighting in the trench could at most but kill two... | |
 | English literature - 1827 - 608 pages
...now forming on every side around them. The trenches were found to be a succession of holes, eapable of containing two men each, and excavated, so as to...afford shelter, both from the weather and the fire of an enemy ; even a shell lighting in the trench couli at most but kill two men. As it is not the Burmese... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - British - 1835 - 344 pages
...found, on examination, to consist merely of a succession of holes, each capable of containing two men, and excavated so as to afford shelter both from the weather and the fire of an enemy. " As it is not the Burmese system to relieve their troops in making these approaches, each... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - China - 1842 - 524 pages
...respecting the Burmese mode of warfare, and the manner in which they push forward their approaches. Their trenches were found to be a succession of holes, capable...afford shelter, both from the weather and the fire of an enemy; even a shell lighting in the trenches, could only kill two men at the most. " As it is not... | |
 | Edward Thornton - India - 1843 - 762 pages
...but to us, who had watched the whole strange proceeding, it seemed the work of magic or enchantment The trenches were found to be a succession of holes,...afford shelter both from the weather and the fire of an enemy ; even a shell lighting in the trench could at most kill but two men. As it is not the Burmese... | |
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The trenches were found to be a succession of holes, capable of containing two men each, and excavated, so as to afford shelter, both from the weather and the fire of an enemy ; even a shell lighting in the trench could at most but kill two men. 
