Kaye's and Malleson's History of the Indian mutiny of 1857-8 . n of the enormous superiority of his enemy, that his moral nature is cowed, and he cannot fight him as he can and does fight a fellow Asiatic. Certainly in the case of Lakhnao this moral power was a strong factor on the side of the British. There they were, few in numbers, occupying a position, not, in a military sense, defensible; two sides of it, indeed, practically undefended. To attack them came an army enormously superior in numbers, flushed with victory, and occupying positions which commanded a great portion of the defences.
Kaye's and Malleson's History of the Indian mutiny of 1857-8 . n of the enormous superiority of his enemy, that his moral nature is cowed, and he cannot fight him as he can and does fight a fellow Asiatic. Certainly in the case of Lakhnao this moral power was a strong factor on the side of the British. There they were, few in numbers, occupying a position, not, in a military sense, defensible; two sides of it, indeed, practically undefended. To attack them came an army enormously superior in numbers, flushed with victory, and occupying positions which commanded a great portion of the defences. To all appearance the^superior the victory of the attacking party was assured. It moraj of the -^^s uot gained, simply because the inferior moral nature of the Asiatic, shrinking involuntarily from actual contact with the European behind defences, neutralised the superiority of numbers. What was the position ? Let the reader imagine a numberof houses, built for ordinary domestic purposes, originallyseparated from each other by small plots of ground, but now. llMt Itf t^ r^^ Intrenched Pdsitidn (/ COVERING THE
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