| 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 - 1818 - 574 páginas
...particular amused themselves with fleshing their swords, and exhibiting their skill on men already roost inhumanly mangled ; on the sick and wounded in the...none escaped this brutal treatment, excepting the lew who were saved by the humane interposition of the French officers, aml particularly Monsieur Pimorin,... | |
| 1818 - 590 páginas
...exhibiting their skill on men already must inhumanly mangled ; on the sick and wounded in the doolies ; imd even on women and children ; and the lower order of...their victims of the last remnant of their clothing; Hone escaped this brutal treatment, excepting the few who were saved by the humane interposition of... | |
| John Philippart - 1823 - 542 páginas
...that capacity until July 1788, when he was removed by his promotion to the rank of captain. hibiting their skill on men already most inhumanly mangled,...the humane interposition of the French officers, and particularly Mons. Pimorin, of the regular French line, who had joined with a small detachment from... | |
| Edward Thornton - 1842 - 604 páginas
...foes. Colonel Wilks says, " Hyder's young soldiers, in particular, amused themselves with fleshing their swords and exhibiting their skill on men already...horsemen plundered their victims of the last remnant of clothing." Nothing remained to relieve the gloom of this ill-fated day but the recollection of the... | |
| Edward Thornton - 1859 - 690 páginas
...unresisting foes. Colonel Wilks says, "Hyder's young Boldien, in particular, amused themselves with Ueshing their swords and exhibiting their skill on men already...horsemen plundered their victims of the last remnant of clothing." Nothing remained to relieve the gloom of this ill-fated day but the recollection of the... | |
| Book - 1867 - 662 páginas
...reach. " Hyder's. young soldiers, in particular," says Colonel \Vilks, " amused themselves with fleshing their swords, and exhibiting their skill, on men already...wounded in the doolies, and even on women and children, while the lower order of horsemen plundered their victims of the last remnant of clothing." The only... | |
| Mark Wilks - 1869 - 568 páginas
...nearly in the same proportion." Hyder's young soldiers in particular amused themselves with fleshing their swords, and exhibiting their skill on men already...horsemen plundered their victims of the last remnant of clothing : none escaped this brutal treatment, excepting the few who were saved by the humane interposition... | |
| Mark Wilks - 1869 - 588 páginas
...women and children ; and the lower order of horsemen plundered their victims of the last remnant of clothing : none escaped this brutal treatment, excepting the few who were saved by the CHAP. XXII.] OBSERVATIONS. 459 humane interposition of the French officers, and particularly Monsieur... | |
| James Grant - 1876 - 602 páginas
...universal and unresisted slaughter, in which the young soldiers of Hyder " amused themselves with fleshing their swords and exhibiting their skill on men already...inhumanly mangled, on the sick and wounded in the dhoolies, and even on women and children."* The very few who survived were saved by the merciful interposition... | |
| Madras (India : Presidency), Charles Stewart Crole - 1879 - 472 páginas
...barbarous atrocities, which are thus described by Wilks: — "They amused themselves with fleshingtheir swords, and exhibiting their skill on men already...inhumanly mangled, on the sick and wounded in the dhoolies, and even on women and children." The few who escaped were saved by French officers in Ryder's... | |
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