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Brissac had the infernal machine: at first he fell upon it and covered it with his body; afterward he crawled with it into the nearest state-room and muffled it in a roll of berth mattresses. When the storm ceased, as suddenly as it had begun, they crept together in the vestibule farthest from the commissary lead-hurling volcano to count the casualties.
The list of casualties resulting from this display of heroism was two killed, two fatally and four badly wounded. The Spanish loss could not be ascertained, but it must necessarily have been heavy. May 11. The Spanish batteries in Cardenas Harbour were silenced on May 11th, and at the same time there was a display of heroism, on the part of American sailors, such as has never been surpassed.
Only two or three were guilty of this crime an execrable one in such an emergency and one of these, Private Henry, was shot by order of Lieutenant Greely toward the end of the winter. Even before Christmas, casualties which would have been avoided, had the party been well-nourished and strong, began.
The actual casualties were, in proportion to the numbers engaged, greater than in any action of the British army in India for many years. Out of a force which at no time exceeded 1000 men, nine British officers, four native officers, and 136 soldiers were either killed or wounded. The following is the full return: BRITISH OFFICERS. Killed Lieutenant and Adjutant V. Hughes, 35th Sikhs.
"And the cost in lives?" "Five or six hundred thousand casualties, which means about a hundred thousand killed." "Ghastly! The population of a good-sized city!" exclaimed the premier. "A small percentage out of five million soldiers; a smaller out of eighty million population," Westerling returned. "And how long do you think the war would last?
Insurgents given until evening of 11th to surrender, but their hostile actions brought on an engagement during the morning. Insurgents fired the native portion of town, but little losses to property of foreign inhabitants. No casualties among United States troops reported. "Otis."
As for the castle, its enormous strength rendered it well-nigh impregnable, and after weeks of effort the Tokugawa forces had nothing to show for their repeated attacks except a long list of casualties. Ieyasu now had recourse to intrigue. The mother of Kyogoku Takatsugu, daimyo of Obama, in Wakasa, was the younger sister of the lady Yodo.
And of those divisions just one-half have had to be withdrawn shattered from the fighting line while the British casualties in the offensive have been from 50 to 75 per cent, less than the casualties in the Somme fighting." Last year, in three months' fighting on the Somme, we took the strongly fortified Albert ridge, and forced the German retreat of last February.
Many were killed or wounded. A naval crew from a 6-inch gun took their places and were almost annihilated. At this time the Vindictive was being hit every few seconds, chiefly in the upper works, from which the splinters caused many casualties.
Zero was at 5-40 a.m., and at that time suddenly there opened an enormous crescendo of fire from the British guns, together with a machine gun barrage, which latter some attributed erroneously to the enemy. At this time it was fairly light, and one could see from a hundred and fifty to two hundred yards, quite light enough to enable the German machine gunners to inflict many casualties.
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