 | Edmund Burke - History - 1844 - 978 pages
...superiority of the musket and bayonet over the sword and shield, and matchlock. The brave Beloochees first discharging their matchlocks and pistols, dashed...the bank with desperate resolution ; but down went those bold and skilful swordsmen under the superior power of the musket and bayonet. At one time, my... | |
 | Scotland - 1857 - 922 pages
...of the shoulder - to - shoulder order over the loose efforts of individual valour. "Down went those bold and skilful swordsmen under the superior power of the musket and bayonet ; yet, even writhing with their death-wound, turned, and with dying hand dealt strokes at their foe,... | |
 | Sindh (Pakistan) - 1843 - 572 pages
...superiority of the musket and bayonet over the sword and shield and matchlock. The brave Beloochees, first discharging their matchlocks and pistols, dashed...Lord, the courage and numbers of the enemy against the 22nd, the 25th, and the 12th regiments, bore heavily in that part of the battle. There was no time... | |
 | Books - 1844 - 974 pages
...superiority of the musket and bayonet over the sword and shield, and matchlock. The brave Beloochees first discharging their matchlocks and pistols, dashed...the bank with desperate resolution ; but down went those bold and skilful swordsmen under the superior power of the musket and bayonet. At one time, my... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1844 - 1496 pages
...superiority of the musket and bayonet over the sword and shield, and matchlock. The brave Beloochees first discharging their matchlocks and pistols, dashed...the bank with desperate resolution ; but down went those bold and skilful swordsmen under the superior power of the musket and bayonet. At one time, my... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1844 - 636 pages
...discharging their matchlocks and pistols, darted over the bank with desperate resolution, but down went their bold and skilful swordsmen under the superior power of the musket and bayonet.' No man of any rank, and no Belooch in Sinde, is considered dressed without his sword ; it is as necessary... | |
 | Australasia - 1843 - 660 pages
...bayonet over the sword and shield, and matchlock. The brave Beloochees first discharging their matchlock and pistols, dashed over the bank with desperate resolution ; but down went those bold and skilful swordsmen under the superior power of the musket and bayonet. At one time, my... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - Australasia - 1846 - 536 pages
...discharging their matchlocks and pistols, dashed on the bank with desperate resolution, but down went their bold and skilful swordsmen under the superior power of the musket and bayonet." The inhabitants are usually divided into Beloochees and Brahoes ; but the former are in reality composed... | |
 | Great Britain. Army, William Hamilton Maxwell - Peninsular War, 1807-1814 - 1847 - 560 pages
...superiority of the musket and bayonet over the sword and shield and matchlock. The brave Biliichis first discharging their matchlocks and pistols, dashed...lord, the courage and numbers of the enemy against the 22nd, the 25th, and the 12th regiments bore heavily in that part of the battle. There was no time to... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - Australasia - 1847 - 560 pages
...discharging their matchlocks and pistols, dashed on the bank with desperate resolution, but down went their bold and skilful swordsmen under the superior power of the musket and bayonet." The inhabitants are usually divided into Beloochees and Brahoes; but the former are in reality composed... | |
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... three hours or more with great fury, man to man. Then, my lord, was seen the superiority of the musket and bayonet over the sword and shield and matchlock. 
