 | Ireland - 1855 - 724 pages
...When the Duke of Newcastle informed Lord Raglan that he had 2,000 recruits to send to him, he replied that, •' those last sent were so young and unformed,...victims to disease, and were swept away like flies. He preferred to wait.' In December the power of reinforcing the army with efficient soldiers was so... | |
 | 1855 - 1428 pages
...unhappy raw levies of whom Field Marshal Lord Raglan wrote back to the Duke of Newcastle, that they were " so young and unformed, that they fell victims to disease and were swept away like flies." But granting these most undeniable postulates, we have one in our turn which is at least equally difficult... | |
 | Sir John Adye - Crimean War, 1853-1856 - 1860 - 230 pages
...When the Duke of Newcastle acquainted Lord Raglan that he had 2000 recruits to send him, he replied, that those last sent were so young and unformed, that...victims to disease, and were swept away like flies ; he preferred to wait. " In December, the power of reinforcing the army with efficient soldiers was... | |
 | William Aitken - 1862 - 122 pages
...* Marshall, loc. cit. t Med.-Chir. Trans., vol. vi. 2,000 recruits ready to send to him, he replied that " those last sent were so young and unformed...victims to disease, and were swept away like flies. He preferred to wait."* Sir De Lacy Evans states in the same Reports f that the drafts sent to him... | |
 | Medicine - 1867 - 626 pages
...Raglan to the Duke of Newcastle, during the height of the Crimean campaign : — " Those last sent out were so young and unformed that they fell victims to disease, and were swept away like flies." That too great a standard of height was aimed at in the English service there can be now little doubt,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1871 - 1086 pages
...Eaglan, when informed by the Duke of Newcastle that ho had 2,000 recruits ready to send to him, replied that— " Those last sent were so young and unformed...victims to disease, and were swept away like flies." Sir De Lacy Evans, at the same time, wrote that the draughts sent to him were composed of men quito... | |
 | Sir Edward Robert Sullivan - 1871 - 128 pages
...Duke of Newcastle that he had 2000 recruits ready to send to him, replied that "those last sent him were so young and unformed that they fell victims to disease, and were swept away like flies." Sir De Lacy Evans at the same time wrote, " that the drafts sent to him were composed of men quite... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1875 - 1008 pages
...nothing. When the Duke of Newcastle offered to send 2,000 more, Lord Raglan, in despair, replied : " Those last sent were so young and unformed that they...victims to disease and were swept away like flies." Sir de Lacy Evans bore like testimony, stating that the draughts sent him were composed of men quite... | |
 | Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain) - Military art and science - 1876 - 932 pages
...When the Duke of Newcastle acquainted Lord Raglan that he had ' 2,000 recruits to send him, ho replied that those last sent were so young and ' unformed,...victims to disease, and were swept away like flies ; he ' preferred to wait." These words of Lord Raglan show how quickly the Army had fallen into great... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1879 - 1174 pages
...Duke of Newcastle acquainted Lord Raglan that he had 2,000 recruits to send him, he replied that AA 2 those last sent were so young and unformed, that they...victims to disease, and were swept away like flies, — he preferred to wait. In Uecemljer the power of reinforcing the army with efficient soldiers was... | |
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Lord Raglan that he had 2,000 recruits to send him, he replied that those last sent were so young and unformed, that they fell victims to disease, and were swept away like flies — -he preferred to wait. 
