"رحلة أوترام وهافلوك في بلاد فارس، بقلم النقيب ج. هـ. هانت، ٧٨ هايلاندرز. يوجد في المقدمة ملخص عن التاريخ الفارسي، تقرير عن الاختلافات المتعددة بين إنجلترا وبلاد فارس واستفسار عن أصل الحرب السابقة. بقلم جورج تاونسيند، مؤلف كتاب "ملخص أوروبا الحديثة لراسل"". [‎٢‎٢‎١] (٣٩٠/٢٤٨)

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CAMPAIGN IN PERSIA.
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the battle, moving off the field about eight
o'clock in the evening. The guide, either
from treachery or ignorance, misled the force,
and about four in the morning a halt took
place in consequence, to wait for daylight,
ihere, in the midst of pitiless rain, sunk knee-
deep, and a biting northerly wind, two long
weary hours were passed, without a tree even
in sight, and the swamp around looking in the
hazy light like a vast lake. Yet men and
officers alike stretched themselves in the mire,
and endeavoured to snatch the rest which the
exhausting labours of so many previous hours
made a paramount necessity. The troops
reached the tower and wells of Chuga-duck,
between Char - Kota and Bushire, by ten
o'clock; and after a halt until two o'clock the
same afternoon (9th), again, in midst of heavy
rain, resumed the march on Bushire, which was
reached by the infantry column about nine at
night. All were, it is true, tired out and
lagged, but with spirits undiminished; and
not only without leaving a single man to
fall into the enemy's hands, throughout the
entire expedition, but bringing our slain with