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| | William Montagu Scott McMurdo - Conquest of Scinde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | The 'General' that the author refers to is his brother, General Sir Charles James Napier, G.C.B. "Such was the battle of Meeanee, fought on the 17th of February 1843, with two thousand men against more than thirty thousand. |
 | | It was in its general arrangements, in all that depended on the commander, a model of skill and intrepidity combined; and in its details fell nothing short of any recorded deeds of arms. |
 | | The front of battle was a chain of single combats, where no quarter was given, none called for, none expected; Sepoys and Europeans and Beloochs were alike bloody and remorseless, taking life for life, giving death for death. |
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