History of
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共 53 段- State of the batteries—The foremost saps—Repairs to embrasur
- With little incentive to spirit and none to amusement, save
- At the Cape of Good Hope, the companies were still dispersed
- Early in March one sergeant and five rank and file under the
- Sir Robert Gardiner’s opinion of the corps—Party to the pena
- At Stirling, according to instructions, he examined the prom
- On the 30th April, two sergeants and forty-eight rank and fi
- Two men were employed during the erection of the building in
- Among the contributors to the Exhibition were the Ordnance S
- An appeal was made to the corps in June to subscribe towards
- Traversing an open country for about 34 miles the army reach
- “I beg to recommend to your special notice my faithful compa
- It was deemed indispensable that a map should be provided of
- The time occupied in the passage of the troops was fifty min
- The Emperor in one of his visits to the Palace examined the
- Without any increase of pay from state sources, the band is
- Nearly five days were employed in collecting the tools and s
- About seventy men of the tenth company marched to Devno on t
- A few weeks before the Central Association commenced its hum
- The British force was divided into two attacks, called “righ
- Everywhere the soil was scanty, and the materials for gainin
- ” Robert McFarlane—dangerously, in the thigh, by splinter
- There existed an intention for a time of attacking the enemy
- Next day the trenches were visited by Major-General Jones in
- The siege passed and peace returned without the chance of us
- The dawn of the 12th opened with the customary firing, but i
- Three hours after the pits had been captured the enemy in st
- The engineer hovel of the left attack—used as an office by e
- Soon after commencing No. 11, the firing into it was very ho
- There were told off for the batteries and trenches this day
- While thus employed in No. 10 battery situated on a central
- Bold men stand in rear of the opening and equally bold are t
- ” Aaron Tickell—wounded severely; leg amputated, and died
- For a few nights the work continued under circumstances of g
- No longer of use, the old engineer hut in the first parallel
- At St. Paul the detachment conjoined with the French and Tur
- By the middle of August the whole sapper force on the right
- All the batteries were again fresh and capable, and trunnion
- Early in September a small batch of sappers and linesmen fix
- Now came the signal for the English to advance. When the col
- None of the corps were killed or wounded at the Alma, Balakl
- Under Lieutenant Edwards, 51 non-commissioned officers and m
- Late in November a demand for more help was met by the addit
- As the last efforts were being made to overthrow the remnant
- The three companies which marched to Aldershot under Major N
- At Chatham the sappers receive instruction in the field serv
- _Sergeant James Beaton_ has given much satisfaction as an ob
- _Sergeant-major James Steel._—From the first he had a taste
- Ibid., p. 151.
- Nov. 1. JOHN SIPPLE, a native of Hesse-Cassel, born in 1740,
- 1845 Private PATRICK J. HOGAN. From H. R. H. Prince Albert.
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- Daft, Stephen, corporal, 341