 | Henry Lushington - Afghan Wars - 1844 - 328 pages
...campaign seem perpetually to have practised. The soldier,—not a sepoy, but an English soldier!—" coolly took him up on his bayonet and threw him over the cliff." Coolly as this hellish deed was done, so coolly is it told—without one word of remark or censure.... | |
 | Edward Thornton - India - 1845 - 578 pages
...scarcely sufficient strength to wield, engaged in an attempt to hack off the head of the dead serjeant. The young urchin was so completely absorbed in his...him up on his bayonet and threw him over the cliff." This story, professedly introduced as exhibiting an instance of " Affghan ferocity, " seems quite as... | |
 | India - 1846 - 606 pages
...it fell. A soldier of the same corps happening to pass bv the spot some time after, saw a Kybereeboy apparently about six years of age with a large knife,...up on his bayonet, and threw him over the. cliff. We think that this soldier, who committed the revolting act thus described, must have " sucked in ferocity... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1850 - 228 pages
...time before when Pollock fought his way through the Khyber Pass. The soldier came behind the child, " coolly took him up on his bayonet, and threw him over the cliff. Lieut. Greenwood narrates this incident in " the war of retribution" as evidence of Afghan ferocity.—... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - Afghanistan - 1879 - 770 pages
...time before when Pollock fought his way through the Khyber Pass. The soldier came behind the child, "coolly took him up on his bayonet, and threw him over the cliff. Lieut. Greenwood narrates this incident in " the war of retribution" as evidence of Afghan ferocity.—... | |
 | Edward Thornton - India - 1845 - 570 pages
...scarcely sufficient strength to wield, engaged in an attempt to hack off the head of the dead Serjeant. The young urchin was so completely absorbed in his...him up on his bayonet and threw him over the cliff." This story, professedly introduced as exhibiting an instance of " Affghan ferocity, " seems quite as... | |
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A soldier of the same corps, happening to pass by the same spot some time after, saw a Khaibari boy, apparently about six years of age, with a large knife which his puny arm had scarcely sufficient strength to wield, engaged in an attempt to hack off... 