The comprehensive history of England : civil and military, religious, intellectual, and social, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt . s had hithertooccasioned, there had been gi-eater improvidence,waste, and misapi>lication of means, than hadformerly characterized our military , indeed, our soldiers had shown equal toany that adorns the page of history; but it wasbi-avery unsheltered, unclothed, unfed—mortalbravery sinking and dying beneath those ills towhich all flesh must succumb, but which a dueamount of preparation might have eluded orwarded
The comprehensive history of England : civil and military, religious, intellectual, and social, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt . s had hithertooccasioned, there had been gi-eater improvidence,waste, and misapi>lication of means, than hadformerly characterized our military , indeed, our soldiers had shown equal toany that adorns the page of history; but it wasbi-avery unsheltered, unclothed, unfed—mortalbravery sinking and dying beneath those ills towhich all flesh must succumb, but which a dueamount of preparation might have eluded orwarded off. The general effects of these uponour army can be estimated from the followingbrief statement given by an eye-witness, who was 1855.] VICTOEIA. 721 piesent dufing the whole winters campaign:—On the 8th of January, of the 63d regimentonly seven remained tit for duty. On the sameday, the 46th, which had hded on the 8th ofNovember, just two months before,mustered onlysixty serviceable men. Tlie 90th, a strong andhealthy rtghnent, buried fifty men in elevendays; and one full company, during the sametime, had only seventeen men out of Ml
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