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 Organisation |
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... favour . He had been engaged in eight several conspiracies ( between 1652 and 1659 ) to obtain the restoration of Charles II . , and for his participa- tion in two of these he had been imprisoned twice . At the Restoration he was the ...
... favour . He had been engaged in eight several conspiracies ( between 1652 and 1659 ) to obtain the restoration of Charles II . , and for his participa- tion in two of these he had been imprisoned twice . At the Restoration he was the ...
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... favour by the people of Eng- land . It is true that the great majority of the King's subjects were glad to escape ... favoured in the South , immediately placed their swords at the service of the seceded party , and imparted the ...
... favour by the people of Eng- land . It is true that the great majority of the King's subjects were glad to escape ... favoured in the South , immediately placed their swords at the service of the seceded party , and imparted the ...
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... favour . The King likewise bestowed commissions in the Army on deserving cavaliers and others ; but His Majesty's necessities compelled him so far to depart from the gratui- tous exercise of the Royal prerogative . as to require , in ...
... favour . The King likewise bestowed commissions in the Army on deserving cavaliers and others ; but His Majesty's necessities compelled him so far to depart from the gratui- tous exercise of the Royal prerogative . as to require , in ...
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... favour at Bridge- water , he hastened thither without delay , but learnt on his arrival that the King's Forces had collected at Sedgmoor , a vast marshy plain , three miles from Bridgewater . Ascending the belfry of the principal church ...
... favour at Bridge- water , he hastened thither without delay , but learnt on his arrival that the King's Forces had collected at Sedgmoor , a vast marshy plain , three miles from Bridgewater . Ascending the belfry of the principal church ...
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... favour . After a feeble effort to maintain his position , James fled from Salis- bury . The camp then broke up , and with so little order , that it rather resembled a retreat before the enemy than a simple retrograde move- ment . The ...
... favour . After a feeble effort to maintain his position , James fled from Salis- bury . The camp then broke up , and with so little order , that it rather resembled a retreat before the enemy than a simple retrograde move- ment . The ...
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 80 - That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"?
Page 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...