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Pàgina 287 - ... men, 595 died in the country in the course -of eight months, and of those who quitted it not more than a half were alive at the end of twelve months." — Report on the Sickness and Mortality among Her Majesty's Troops serving in the Burmese Empire, from the Records of the Army Medical Department, &c. By Major Alex. M'Tulloch. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by Command of Her Majesty, August, 1841. (15. — p.
Pàgina 163 - Governor-General's agent ; but in the event of peace with Ava, they were not to be given up to that government. Colonel Richards was induced to accede to these conditions, by his conviction of the impossibility of preventing the escape of the garrison, upon the capture of the fort, or of pursuing them on their flight. It was also to have been apprehended, if the evacuation of the province had been much longer delayed, that it might not have been cleared of the enemy during the campaign, as the want...