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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... persons of a number of cavaliers who had fol- lowed the fortunes of Charles I. during the Civil War , and who , on the Restoration , in May 1660 , were embodied in Holland as a Guard for the protection of the Royal person . A portion of ...
... persons of a number of cavaliers who had fol- lowed the fortunes of Charles I. during the Civil War , and who , on the Restoration , in May 1660 , were embodied in Holland as a Guard for the protection of the Royal person . A portion of ...
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... person of the Sovereign . The fears entertained that the establishment of an organised body of Guards would prove the corner - stone of a Military edifice of more im- posing grandeur , commonly known by the name of a standing Army ...
... person of the Sovereign . The fears entertained that the establishment of an organised body of Guards would prove the corner - stone of a Military edifice of more im- posing grandeur , commonly known by the name of a standing Army ...
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... person . They were recruited in Scotland . Louis XII . sent them over to attend the coronation of Charles I. , and eight years later they revisited England to fight under their leader , Hepburn , against the Parliamentarian Army . The ...
... person . They were recruited in Scotland . Louis XII . sent them over to attend the coronation of Charles I. , and eight years later they revisited England to fight under their leader , Hepburn , against the Parliamentarian Army . The ...
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... person . Having an Army on foot of 36,000 men , he pro- ceeded to Ireland in the spring , accompanied by Prince George , the Duke of Ormond , the Earl of Oxford , and others . In compliment to the latter , and to distinguish them from a ...
... person . Having an Army on foot of 36,000 men , he pro- ceeded to Ireland in the spring , accompanied by Prince George , the Duke of Ormond , the Earl of Oxford , and others . In compliment to the latter , and to distinguish them from a ...
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... person to Irish affairs , the King embarked for Holland in March , and made directly for the capital of the States General . Tempestuous wea- ther checked his progress , but no consideration of adverse winds could control his iron heart ...
... person to Irish affairs , the King embarked for Holland in March , and made directly for the capital of the States General . Tempestuous wea- ther checked his progress , but no consideration of adverse winds could control his iron heart ...
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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...