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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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引用情報
218 THE STORMING OF GYANTSE JONG
Sheppard, R.E., who, with that dash and effectiveness
which always characterized him, succeeded in laying and
firing a charge under the walls of the most strongly held
house, and blowing in it a breach, which, with the damage
done by the fire of the 7-pounder gun, gave an opening
for the assaulting column. On the left Lieutenants
Gurdon and Burney also succeeded in blowing breaches in
the walls of the houses ; but, to the grief of all, Gurdon
was killed—it is believed by the falling débris of the very
wall which he had blown up. He had been with the
Mission escort from the very first, and in many of these
very dangerous assaults on villages had displayed most
daring courage. He was a brother of the Captain (now
Lieutenant-Colonel) Gurdon who had so distinguished
himself in the Siege of Chitral, and who was one of my
closest friends. When the news came in to me from the
front, I felt how sad indeed it was that one so young and
so full of promise, with a great and useful career most
certainly before him, should have been thus in an instant
cut off. But he did not fall in vain, for what he had done
at the cost of his life enabled the assaulting columns
to enter the town, which by 7 a.m. was in our possession.
The troops began to make good their position in the
area thus won, but the real business had yet to be
accomplished. The jong, with 5,000 or 6,000 Tibetans
inside it, still had to be assaulted. During the morning
there was a general lull in the proceedings while the
troops rested. But about two o'clock Colonel Campbell,
who was in command of all the advanced troops in the
town, sent back word to General Macdonald, who was in
the Palla village, recommending that an assault should be
made on the extreme east of the jong. To him in his
advanced position, immediately under the walls of the
,jong, it appeared that if our guns could make a breach in
the wall itself an assault could be made, though the storm-
ing party would have a stiff, hazardous climb over the
steepest part of the rock. General Macdonald adopted
the proposal, and as the Tibetans now appeared somewhat
exhausted, ordered the assault to be made at once.
At three o'clock General Macdonald ordered forward
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