Moodkee

But I had talked with the men of Sobraon, of Chilianwallah, of Moodkee and

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"Sweep them as you swept them at Ferozeshah and Moodkee?" cries Jeendan.

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

It was where Lal Singh, on my advice, had left half his force when he marched to meet Gough, and it was where his battered advance guard retired after Moodkee.

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

Live in hope, old Paddy, thinks I; I'd expected to be left behind at Moodkee with the wounded, but at least I'd be well out of the way at advance headquarters while the rest of them got on with the serious work.

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

Meanwhile Hardinge had decided to stop being Governor-General and become a soldier again - he went careering off to Ludhiana and brought the garrison down to join the march, so that when they reached Moodkee they had about twelve thousand men, pretty fagged out after a day's march - and there were Lal's gorracharra waiting for them, ten thousand strong and a couple of thousand infantry.

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

The three days of Moodkee and Ferozeshah had given their rank and file a great respect for us.

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

Given a shift of fortune, at Moodkee or Ferozeshah, and this genial, evil old barbarian would have been heart and soul with the Khalsa, leading 'em on to Delhi, no doubt.

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

He had the grace to break off at sight of me, and sat looking peevish, with Lawrence and Van Cortlandt, whom I hadn't seen since Moodkee, standing behind.

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

It's a scrubby little hamlet about halfway between Ferozepore and Moodkee, but in its way it's a greater place than Delhi or Calcutta or Bombay, for it's where the fate of India was settled - appropriately by treachery, folly, and idiot courage beyond belief.

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990

"If we come adrift through this, with our fellows shootin 'each other in the dark, as they did at Moodkee - well, son, I won't hold myself responsible unless I am!"

Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990