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... great celebrity , and was a diligent student of those various branches of theoretical and practical science which are necessary to the formation of the accomplished soldier . He received his first commission as ensign in.
... great celebrity , and was a diligent student of those various branches of theoretical and practical science which are necessary to the formation of the accomplished soldier . He received his first commission as ensign in.
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Andrew Redman Bonar. soldier . He received his first commission as ensign in the 73rd foot , in 1787 , when in his eighteenth year . As subaltern and captain he served both in the cavalry and infantry ; in 1793 , he was appointed to a ...
Andrew Redman Bonar. soldier . He received his first commission as ensign in the 73rd foot , in 1787 , when in his eighteenth year . As subaltern and captain he served both in the cavalry and infantry ; in 1793 , he was appointed to a ...
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... voured to cause delay by means of negociations , but these could not now be received ; the season for active service was come , and delay would only have allowed the enemy to gain strength . Genera Harris DUKE OF WELLINGTON . 15.
... voured to cause delay by means of negociations , but these could not now be received ; the season for active service was come , and delay would only have allowed the enemy to gain strength . Genera Harris DUKE OF WELLINGTON . 15.
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... received with a heavy fire , and their efforts were but parti- ally successful , Colonel Shaw having only made himself master of a ruined village . Next day , how- ever , three simultaneous attacks were made to drive back the enemy from ...
... received with a heavy fire , and their efforts were but parti- ally successful , Colonel Shaw having only made himself master of a ruined village . Next day , how- ever , three simultaneous attacks were made to drive back the enemy from ...
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... received a wound , he rode towards the gate of the inner fort , followed by his palan- quin , and a number of his officers and troops . Here he was struck on the right side by a musket - ball , and soon afterwards by a second . The ...
... received a wound , he rode towards the gate of the inner fort , followed by his palan- quin , and a number of his officers and troops . Here he was struck on the right side by a musket - ball , and soon afterwards by a second . The ...
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Σελίδα 194 - Nothing could stop that astonishing infantry. No sudden burst of undisciplined valour, no nervous enthusiasm, weakened the stability of their order...
Σελίδα 274 - Cadogan has died of a wound which he received. In him His Majesty has lost an officer of great zeal and tried gallantry, who had already acquired the respect and regard of the whole profession, and of whom it might be expected, that if he had lived he would have rendered the most important services to his country.
Σελίδα 459 - Bulow, upon the enemy's flank, was a most decisive one; and even if I had not found myself in a situation to make the attack, which produced the final result, it would have forced the enemy to retire, if his attacks should have failed, and would have prevented him from taking advantage of them, if they should unfortunately have succeeded.
Σελίδα 194 - In vain did Soult with voice and gesture animate his Frenchmen ; in vain did the hardiest veterans break from the crowded columns and sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself bear up, and, fiercely striving, fire indiscriminately...
Σελίδα 457 - Picton his Majesty has sustained the loss of an officer who has frequently distinguished himself in his service ; and he fell gloriously leading his division to a charge with bayonets, by which one of the most serious attacks made by the enemy on our position was repulsed.
Σελίδα 195 - ... by the incessant vigour of the attack to the farthest edge of the hill. In vain did the French reserves...
Σελίδα 451 - The whole, therefore, of the latter, which had not already been taken by the troops in their attack of the successive positions taken up by the enemy in their retreat from their first position...
Σελίδα 231 - In this dreadful situation, while the dead were lying in heaps, and others continually falling, the wounded crawling about to get some shelter from the merciless...
Σελίδα 340 - A moment of prosperity blinds them. The oppression and humiliation of the French people are beyond their power. If they enter France, they will there find their tomb. Soldiers! we have forced marches to make, battles to fight, dangers to...
Σελίδα 300 - The officers and soldiers of the army must recollect that their nations are at war with France solely because the Ruler of the French nation will not allow them to be at peace, and is desirous of forcing them to submit to his yoke...