Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut in His
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I knew it I could not be deceived the thing was plain. People must have been blind not to have foreseen this event. " Thus ended the fighting against the Nepaulese, this having been the second campaign in what is called the Goorkah war. It. Was a fortunate thing for all hands that hostilities were thus terminated, for seventy men of the 87th regiment had that morning gone to hospital with the dysentery, a complaint that was raging with great violence, from the damp situation of the valley, and ...the thick fogs that lodged there till nearly mid-day. Guns were ordered down, and we began to prepare for quarters. None were sorry for it, for already were our toes playing at hide-and-seek through our boots, and our wardrobes were much the worse for wear. We were given to understand, from the quarter-master-general, that the post which we took had been vacated by the enemy's troops, without orders, and that they were sent back reinforced to re- take and keep it, in which attempt, if they did not succeed, their heads were to be the forfeit.
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