A Familiar History of the British Army, from the Earliest Restoration in 1660 to the the Present Time: Including a Description of the Volunteer Movement, and the Progress of the Volunteer OrganisationE. Stanford, 1871 - 349 стор. |
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... effect of augmenting the animosity of the English . A considerable number of the English common soldiers manifested a reluctance to abandon the cause of King James . Indeed , Lord Dundee , one of the most devoted of the King's adherents ...
... effect of augmenting the animosity of the English . A considerable number of the English common soldiers manifested a reluctance to abandon the cause of King James . Indeed , Lord Dundee , one of the most devoted of the King's adherents ...
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... effect the desired object . The measures which he took , however , compelled the French to occupy a new position between Enghien and Steenkerke , where they were attacked by a combined German , Dutch , and English Force , under the ...
... effect the desired object . The measures which he took , however , compelled the French to occupy a new position between Enghien and Steenkerke , where they were attacked by a combined German , Dutch , and English Force , under the ...
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... effect , and the attack on Carthagena was not abandoned until 600 true men had been sacrificed to the incompetency of their Commander , and the want of co - operation between himself and the Admiral . So worthless were the arrangements ...
... effect , and the attack on Carthagena was not abandoned until 600 true men had been sacrificed to the incompetency of their Commander , and the want of co - operation between himself and the Admiral . So worthless were the arrangements ...
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... effect , the 42nd Highlanders , after marching to the ground to the music of their own bagpipes , to take up a position , fired a volley , and then clapped down at full length on the sod to let the shot pass over them . " The only ...
... effect , the 42nd Highlanders , after marching to the ground to the music of their own bagpipes , to take up a position , fired a volley , and then clapped down at full length on the sod to let the shot pass over them . " The only ...
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... effect certain reduc- tions in the Active Force ; the Life Guards were ( in 1746 ) shorn of two troops , and three Cavalry Regiments , distinguished as " the horse " of certain Officers of rank , were converted into Dragoon Guards on ...
... effect certain reduc- tions in the Active Force ; the Life Guards were ( in 1746 ) shorn of two troops , and three Cavalry Regiments , distinguished as " the horse " of certain Officers of rank , were converted into Dragoon Guards on ...
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Сторінка 120 - Then bugle's note and cannon's roar the death-like silence broke, And with one start and with one cry the royal city woke. At once on all her stately gates arose the answering fires ; At once the wild alarum clashed from all her reeling spires...
Сторінка 321 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him ! But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring, And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing.
Сторінка 321 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet, nor in shroud, we wound him ; But he lay, like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Сторінка 118 - ... which had ever marked his character, till long after the action was over, when he fainted through weakness and loss of blood. Were it permitted for a soldier to regret any one who has fallen in the service of his country, I might be excused for lamenting him more than any other person...
Сторінка 42 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Сторінка 321 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast...
Сторінка 173 - Although circumstances may alter the relations in which he has stood towards them for some years so much to his satisfaction, he assures them he will never cease to feel the warmest interest in their welfare and honour, and that he will be at all times happy to be of any service to those, to whose conduct, discipline and gallantry, their country is so much indebted.
Сторінка 257 - And these demands, thus studiously concealed, affected, not the privileges of the Greek Church at Jerusalem, but the position of many millions of Turkish subjects in their relations to their Sovereign the Sultan.
Сторінка 80 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Сторінка 321 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow...