James Abbott, Edwardes, Lumsden, Nicholson, Taylor, Cocks, Hodson, Pollock, Bowring, Henry Coxe, and Melville are men such as you will seldom see anywhere, but, when collected under one administration, were worth double and treble the number taken at... Lumsden of the Guides: A Sketch of the Life of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Harry Burnett ... - Page 19by Sir Peter Stark Lumsden, G. R. Elsmie - 1900 - 336 pagesFull view - About this book
| Sir John William Kaye - 1869 - 412 pages
...Melvill, are men such as you will seldom find anywhere, but when collected under one administration were worth double and treble the number taken at hap-hazard....was a good man ; the most were excellent officers. My chief help, however, was in my brother John, without whom I should have had difficulty in carrying... | |
| Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes, Herman Merivale - 1872 - 418 pages
...Melville, are men such as you will seldom see anywhere, but when collected under one administration were worth double and treble the number taken at haphazard....was a good man : the most were excellent officers. My chief help, however, was in my brother John, without whom I should have had difficulty in carrying... | |
| Charles Rathbone Low - 1880 - 382 pages
...They are men such as you will seldom find anywhere, but when collected under one administration, were worth double and treble the number taken at hap-hazard. Each was a good man ; the most were good officers." And again, " I was very fortunate in having my assistants, all of whom were my friends,... | |
| William Stephen Raikes Hodson - 1883 - 412 pages
...&cc., are such men as you will seldom see anywhere ; but when collected under one administration were worth double and treble the number taken at haphazard....was a good man. The most were excellent officers." The slight foundation of truth on which Mr. Smith has raised his fabric of calumny is this: — During... | |
| Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes - 1886 - 450 pages
...Melville are men such as you will seldom see anywhere, but, when collected under one administration, were worth double and treble the number taken at haphazard....was a good man ; the most were excellent officers." Of this band of young men, all whom Colonel Henry Lawrence personally attached to himself, and by whom... | |
| Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes - 1886 - 504 pages
...Melville are men such as you will seldom see anywhere, but, when collected under one administration, were worth double and treble the number taken at haphazard. Each was a good man j the most were excellent officers." Of this band of young men, all whom Colonel Henry Lawrence personally... | |
| Ernest Gambier-Parry - 1888 - 428 pages
...Melvill are men such as you will seldom see anywhere, but when collected under one administration were worth double and treble the number taken at haphazard....was a good man ; the most were excellent officers. My chief help, however, was in my brother John.' l At the close of the first Sikh war Henry Lawrence... | |
| Mrs. Wm. Pitt Byrne - 1892 - 530 pages
...they are men such as you will seldom see anywhere ; but, collected under one administration, they were worth double and treble the number, taken at haphazard. Each was a good man and an excellent officer." Henry Lawrence's original Punjaxib staff consisted of "James Abbott, John... | |
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