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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... victory , " that- " occasioned by the " Since moist Ierne furious Strongbow won , And cut in pieces his inglorious son , Never that isle a better Captain bore , Who lov'd his honour and his country more . " Not the least interesting ...
... victory , " that- " occasioned by the " Since moist Ierne furious Strongbow won , And cut in pieces his inglorious son , Never that isle a better Captain bore , Who lov'd his honour and his country more . " Not the least interesting ...
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... victory , and conquest . Justness of eye ; quick- ness in appreciating the exigencies on a given field of battle ; rapidity to profit by the eventual faults of the enemy ; insight into his aims ; and , finally , the inspiration of the ...
... victory , and conquest . Justness of eye ; quick- ness in appreciating the exigencies on a given field of battle ; rapidity to profit by the eventual faults of the enemy ; insight into his aims ; and , finally , the inspiration of the ...
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... victory , assured him their affection and respect . These ultimately resolved themselves into the familiar appellation of " Corporal John , " by which title and name alone he was known in the ranks . There is a song or ballad extant ...
... victory , assured him their affection and respect . These ultimately resolved themselves into the familiar appellation of " Corporal John , " by which title and name alone he was known in the ranks . There is a song or ballad extant ...
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... victory should be achieved at a lesser sacrifice . The Tory Ministry , at the head of which was Harley , afterwards Earl of Oxford , had become extremely unpopular in the Army , because the progress of the war in the Netherlands and ...
... victory should be achieved at a lesser sacrifice . The Tory Ministry , at the head of which was Harley , afterwards Earl of Oxford , had become extremely unpopular in the Army , because the progress of the war in the Netherlands and ...
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... victory . The Highlanders fought with desperate gallantry . They charged fiercely upon the English Infantry with their for- midable claymores , protecting themselves from bayonet thrusts with their stout targets . But they did not ...
... victory . The Highlanders fought with desperate gallantry . They charged fiercely upon the English Infantry with their for- midable claymores , protecting themselves from bayonet thrusts with their stout targets . But they did not ...
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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...