From cadet to colonel; the record of a life of active service - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1153945495 ISBN 13: 9781153945493

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1877 Excerpt: ... 112 CHAPTER VII. Cabool--Baber's Tomb--" Syle"--Left in Garrison at Cabool--Quarters: for Men, for Officers--Winter Clothing--H.M. 13th and the 35th N.I.--Guard-mounting and Wonder of Caboolees--Sliding--Skating--Astonishment of Caboolees--Christmas Eve--A "Big Snow"--Move into Camp--Build a Hut--March to Bameean--Zohauk--Action with Dost Mohammed--Syghan and Fort of Sir-i-Sung--Return to Bameean--The Great Idol--Skeleton of a Dragon--Return to Cabool. Cabool is built between two hills; the southern and larger one the end of a considerable range, the northern smaller and detached. High and strong battlemented stone walls, with large bastions at regular intervals, ran over the. crest of both hills, and effectually secure the city from any sudden incursion of an enemy, or the attacks of the Gilzaees, the most turbulent tribe in the whole country, against whom these walls were principally erected. The walls are well built, and on the eastern side, where they come down to the plain and the slope of the hill is easier, the wall is double, and sometimes even triple. At the eastern side of the town is the Bala Hissar, or citadel, the upper part of which is built on a rocky eminence, the end of a spur from the southern hill. It overlooks the lower part, which is built round its base, and is fortified with stone walls and bastions, besides a deep wide ditch filled by a stream from the mountains. Between the ditch and the walls is a wide berth, on the edge of which is a thick clay parapet, to protect the base of the stone walls from cannon shot, and for other defensive purposes. It was partly ruinous when we were at Cabool. In the centre is the eastern or Lahore gate. A little above, to the left, are seen a portion of the wall and two bastions of the Upper Hissar; th...

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• ISBN 10: 1153945495
• ISBN 13: 9781153945493
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