Incidents in the China War of 1860 Comp From the Private Journals of General S
Incidents in the China War of 1860 Comp From the Private Journals of General S
James Hope Grant
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. I hope you will find the Armstrong guns better than you expected. We have now tried a great many of them, and we have found all, in point of accuracy, as near perfection as possible. They have other faults, but in this respect I should think the fault lay in the laying of the gun rather than in the gun itself . . . — Believe me, &c. , "Sidney Herbert. " "Wilton, October la^h, i860. " Dear Sir Hope, — Your last mail was very tantalising ; and we are in a state of anxious sus- pense, only knowi...ng that your attack on the Taku Forts was about to be made. God grant the next may bring us good news. . . . One thing has made me rather anxious — namely, the MR SIDNEY HERBERTS LETTERS. I 53 postponement of sending for warm winter cloth- ing. ... I trust you may winter south ; but if not, you will have a fearful climate to contend with. At Bombay a great supply of sheep-skin clothing can, I understand, be obtained. No doubt in China the same skins or furs can be got but can they be got by an enemy ?
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