The comprehensive history of England : civil and military, religious, intellectual, and social, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt . Ml. View feom MisEn ^ IIotti Fioin a bketth 1 y Jamta Newlands C L The three battalions of guards were mere of 1562 men, sent out to the Scots fusiliersfrom first to last, only 210 remained. The threebattalions, which in all represented some 4500rank and file, at this time did not muster 700men on parade, and of that number there wasnot one man who, in a time of peace, wouldhave been considered fit to be out of
The comprehensive history of England : civil and military, religious, intellectual, and social, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt . Ml. View feom MisEn ^ IIotti Fioin a bketth 1 y Jamta Newlands C L The three battalions of guards were mere of 1562 men, sent out to the Scots fusiliersfrom first to last, only 210 remained. The threebattalions, which in all represented some 4500rank and file, at this time did not muster 700men on parade, and of that number there wasnot one man who, in a time of peace, wouldhave been considered fit to be out of the month of January, the troops alwaysin hospital at camp avei-aged upwards of 3000men, and in the same month no less than 4073invalids were actually sent away to Scutari. The return of spring, which stilled the de-structive war of the elements, was also accom-panied by the tardy arrival of some of those sup-plies which had been mis-sent to foreign ports,or buried beneath piles of cannon and stacks ofshot during the months of winter, when theywere most needed; and our reviving encampmentwas again prepared for enterprise, and animated The Past Campaign: a
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