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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE WELLINGTOx TBEE, AT WATERLOO. (SEE PAGE 53.) THE DUKE IN THE BATTLE-FIELD. PROMPT WORK. E of the splendid triumphs of the invasion of the Mahratta country, in 1802, was the conquest of Ahmednuggur, in which Colonel Wellesley, just gazetted a Major-General, displayed his wonted decisiveness of action. This fortress is one of the strongest in India, and is built of solid stone and chunam, surrounded by a deep dry ditch, with large circular bastions at short intervals; and armed with three or four guns in casemated embrasures, with a terrace above, and loop-holes for musketry. The bastions are unusually lofty; the curtains short and low, with loop-holes in their narrow ramparts formusketry. The guns (some sixty pieces) upon the bastions were numerous, ranging in their calibre from twelves to fifty-twos; but the casemates were too confined to allow their being effectively employed. The glacis was so abrupt as to cover nearly thirty feet of the walls, affording shelter for an enemy, if they could only get close to the place. This formidable place of arms was carried by assault in the most splendid style imaginable?and the surrender of the fort followed that of the city. The reduction of such a place was certainly a most gallant exploit, and Gooklah, a Mahratta chief, residing in our camp, says Colonel Nichols, with a body of horse, wrote thus to his friends at Poonah?' These English are a strange people, and their General a wonderful man. They came here in the morning, looked at the Pettah walls, walked over it, killed all the garrison, and returned to breakfast What can withstand them ?' The strong fortress of Ahmednuggur was taken by a most gallant escalade; in the thick of the assault, General Wellesley saw a young officer who had reached the top of ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217419642 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021741964X |
| Weight | 0.35 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.24 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 100 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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