The remains of Napoleon's invasion force staggered back from Russia in early 1813 in appalling condition.
"We have police officers standing about as he lay in the most appalling condition from, we were to later find out, a blow to the head".
Most children arrive at the therapeutic centres in appalling condition from untreated illnesses, including acute malaria, diarrhoea, measles and even tuberculosis.
"Many of these people are living in the open in appalling conditions," the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a recent statement.
Children, women and men were forced to work in the mines in appalling conditions.
In any other week, Cardiff City's David Marshall would be occupying this spot but in one of the best games I've seen at the Britannia Stadium in years and, in appalling conditions, Asmir Begovic was superb.
NEW YORK, 7 July 2014 - More than 105,000 children in Myanmar's Rakhine State have been affected by inter-communal violence, including 78,000 displaced children living in rural camps in appalling conditions.
More than 1,200 women, men and children from countries such as Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Bangladesh, Kuwait, Afghanistan, spent months or years in appalling conditions in a detention camp funded by Australia.
Those unable or unwilling to move away from their local area may be forced to overcrowd or accept a home in appalling conditions to make ends meet".
He lived in appalling conditions, first in a rat-infested shed then a cold, squalid caravan, with only a horse trough to wash in and no soap or toothbrush.
