| Sir Henry Miers Elliot - India - 1877 - 628 pages
...say that he would fight to the death like the horsemen who fought with Im&m Husain at Karbala. * * The besiegers continued to show great resolution in...months and ten days, the place fell into his hands ; but by good fortune, not by force of sword and spear. THIRTY-FIRST YEAR OF THE REIGN, 1098 AH (1687... | |
| Sidney James Owen - India - 1912 - 320 pages
...fill it up, and with them repaired the breaches made by the mines. Still the besiegers persevered. " They cast into the ditches thousands of bags filled...lives in vain, and the fortress remained untaken." I have given this rather detailed account of the siege of Golconda because it shows, what the Emperor... | |
| Sidney James Owen - India - 1912 - 298 pages
...men who had perished during the operations. Several times the valour of the assailants carried them 7 to the top of the walls ; but the watchfulness of...lives in vain, and the fortress remained untaken." I have given this rather detailed account of the siege of Golconda because it shows, what the Emperor... | |
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