"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"". [‎٢‎٦‎٥] (٣٩٠/٢٩٤)

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artillery and three gunners were also lying
dead beside it. A letter found on the officer
stated his expectation of a great battle on the
morrow, and foreboded his own fate—com
mitting his wife and children to the care of his
brother at Tehran. This letter was subse
quently safely forwarded to the address it bore
by the British political agent at Bagdad.
Two other handsome field-guns and a large
brass mortar were found deserted near the
brass 12-pounder, the accident to which had
prevented the enemy carrying them off; and
they must have had some frightful casualties
in their ranks while their men were delayed in
the attempt. Some few corpses remaining
on the spot presented horrible spectacles : a
huge African in particular, struck on the
back of the head by a round shot which had
carried away all the bones of the skull and
face, lay across another dead soldier, with the
hideous, eyeless black mask that had once
been a countenance, still as it were mowing
and grinning at the beholder. The scene of
the explosion of their grand magazine also
afforded some ghastly objects, and the damage