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The salute of a small prince is three or four guns; princes of greater consequence have salutes that run higher and higher, gun by gun, oh, clear away up to eleven; possibly more, but I did not hear of any above eleven-gun princes. It may be that supremely grand folk, like the Nyzam of Hyderabad and the Gaikwar of Baroda, have more than eleven guns, but I don't know.
In this heroic attempt he lost his life, regretted by the whole army. Of our two companies, scarce a soul escaped uninjured. Near the breach, the dead, dying, and wounded would have melted the heart of the most callous wretch; and, had not the little party who stormed the eleven-gun battery proved successful, few, if any, would have escaped the dreadful carnage.
The salute of a small prince is three or four guns; princes of greater consequence have salutes that run higher and higher, gun by gun, oh, clear away up to eleven; possibly more, but I did not hear of any above eleven-gun princes. It may be that supremely grand folk, like the Nyzam of Hyderabad and the Gaikwar of Baroda, have more than eleven guns, but I don't know.
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