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... British troops " Sent to Coventry " Thirteenth Foot formed into cavalry Establishment and pay of infantry in 1686 Napoleon and the Twentieth Regiment A difficult surname Singular description of a deserter . Action at Gorde Suspended ...
... British troops " Sent to Coventry " Thirteenth Foot formed into cavalry Establishment and pay of infantry in 1686 Napoleon and the Twentieth Regiment A difficult surname Singular description of a deserter . Action at Gorde Suspended ...
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... British cultivators of tobacco Act of self - devotion Thirty - first Regiment A Christian's tombstone in a Mahomedan cemetery Sir Thomas Picton and the Duke of Marlborough Thirty - ninth Foot and Plassey Amenities of warfare Disposal of ...
... British cultivators of tobacco Act of self - devotion Thirty - first Regiment A Christian's tombstone in a Mahomedan cemetery Sir Thomas Picton and the Duke of Marlborough Thirty - ninth Foot and Plassey Amenities of warfare Disposal of ...
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... British crown , and paved the way for the conquest of Canada . The Peninsular War is fruitful in Sunday fighting . The second battle in Portugal , that of Vimiera , was fought on Sunday , the 21st of August , 1808. The battle of Fuentes ...
... British crown , and paved the way for the conquest of Canada . The Peninsular War is fruitful in Sunday fighting . The second battle in Portugal , that of Vimiera , was fought on Sunday , the 21st of August , 1808. The battle of Fuentes ...
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... British empire , and have within a short space of time been brought conspicuously before the country by his achievements at the Cape of Good Hope , whence he had only just returned when he was ordered to this army . " By his death Her ...
... British empire , and have within a short space of time been brought conspicuously before the country by his achievements at the Cape of Good Hope , whence he had only just returned when he was ordered to this army . " By his death Her ...
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... British troops actually engaged little ex- ceeded 8,000 men , whilst those of General Bosquet's division only amounted to 6,000 , the remaining avail- able French troops on the spot having been kept in reserve . I ought to mention ...
... British troops actually engaged little ex- ceeded 8,000 men , whilst those of General Bosquet's division only amounted to 6,000 , the remaining avail- able French troops on the spot having been kept in reserve . I ought to mention ...
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Seite 381 - Every subject's duty is the king's ; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience ; and dying so, death is to him advantage ; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained : and in him that escapes, it were not sin to think that, making God so free an offer, he let him outlive that day to see his greatness, and to teach others how they should prepare.
Seite 307 - From camp to camp through the foul womb of night The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch : Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames Each battle sees the other's umber'd face...
Seite 305 - I will ask him for my place again ; he shall tell me I am a drunkard ! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast! O strange! Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.
Seite 319 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility. But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Seite 304 - I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly ; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. — O, that men should put an enemy in their mouths, to steal away their brains ! that we should, with joy, revel, pleasure, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts ! lago.
Seite 319 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage ; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect ; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon ; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height.
Seite 307 - Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur, and the poring dark, Fills the wide vessel of the universe. From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch...
Seite 366 - ... was something in his looks and voice and manner superadded, which eternally beckoned to the unfortunate to come and take shelter under him ; so that before...
Seite 363 - But he knows me not,' said he, a second time musing. ' Possibly he may my story,' added he. ' Pray tell the captain, I was the ensign at Breda whose wife was most unfortunately killed with a musketshot as she lay in my arms in my tent.
Seite 304 - O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!