The United Service JournalH. Colburn, 1833 |
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... ranks , & c . " " Cavalry Depôt , August 2d , 1833. " The testimony of the French officer is forcible when examined by the rule you lay down , that " those who felt the blow may at least be supposed to know from whence it came * " " * U ...
... ranks , & c . " " Cavalry Depôt , August 2d , 1833. " The testimony of the French officer is forcible when examined by the rule you lay down , that " those who felt the blow may at least be supposed to know from whence it came * " " * U ...
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... rank , or station , or sex , was safe . If they entered a house that had not been emptied of all its furniture or wine , they proceeded to destroy it ; or , if it happened to be empty , which was generally the case , they commenced ...
... rank , or station , or sex , was safe . If they entered a house that had not been emptied of all its furniture or wine , they proceeded to destroy it ; or , if it happened to be empty , which was generally the case , they commenced ...
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... rank - except in his turn . Lieutenant Macpherson , of the 45th , was the first to mount the round tower , upon the top of which floated the tri - coloured flag ; he got a company , but the rest I have mentioned - all 88th men , were ...
... rank - except in his turn . Lieutenant Macpherson , of the 45th , was the first to mount the round tower , upon the top of which floated the tri - coloured flag ; he got a company , but the rest I have mentioned - all 88th men , were ...
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... ranks ! In my regiment alone , out of 750 privates , 434 had fallen ; and of the officers , who , at the commence- ment of the sieges counted 24 , but five remained unhurt ! · 6 The wounded by this time were all brought to the different ...
... ranks ! In my regiment alone , out of 750 privates , 434 had fallen ; and of the officers , who , at the commence- ment of the sieges counted 24 , but five remained unhurt ! · 6 The wounded by this time were all brought to the different ...
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... rank than colonel was killed , it is a singular circumstance that every general was wounded on the night of the assault . Picton , Colville , Kempt , Walker , and Bowes , all heading either brigades or divisions , were wounded ; yet the ...
... rank than colonel was killed , it is a singular circumstance that every general was wounded on the night of the assault . Picton , Colville , Kempt , Walker , and Bowes , all heading either brigades or divisions , were wounded ; yet the ...
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315 ページ - 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.
444 ページ - Come as the winds come, when Forests are rended ; Come as the waves come, when Navies are stranded : Faster come, faster come, Faster and faster, Chief, vassal, page and groom, Tenant and master.
201 ページ - I've met with many a breeze before. But never such a blow!" Then reading on his 'bacco box. He heaved a heavy sigh. And then began to eye his pipe, And then to pipe his eye. And then he tried to sing ' All's Well,' But could not, though he tried; His head was turned — and so he chewed His pigtail till he died.
177 ページ - On a bed of green sea-flowers thy limbs shall be laid, — Around thy white bones the red coral shall grow; Of thy fair yellow locks threads of amber be made, And every part suit to thy mansion below.
413 ページ - ... and it was not until the 1st of July that we reached the beach, completely exhausted by hunger and fatigue. " A hut was speedily constructed, and the boats, three of which had been washed off the beach, but providentially driven on shore again, were repaired during...
154 ページ - And down she suck'd with her the whirling wave, Like one who grapples with his enemy, And strives to strangle him before he die.
414 ページ - Next day, when the gale abated, we crossed Admiralty Inlet, and were detained six days on the coast by a strong north-east wind. On the 25th we crossed Navy Board Inlet, and on the following morning, to our inexpressible joy, we descried a ship in the offing, becalmed, which proved to be the Isabella of Hull, the same ship which I commanded in 1818: at noon we reached her, when her enterprising commander, who had in vain searched for us in Prince Regent's Inlet, after giving us three cheers, received...
414 ページ - Isabella, betides his duty as third in command, took charge of the meteorological journal, the distribution and economy of provisions, and to his judicious plans and suggestions must be attributed the uncommon degree of health which our crew enjoyed ; and as two out of the three who died in the four years and a half were cut off early in the voyage, by diseases not peculiar to the climate, only one man can be said to have perished.
414 ページ - We have, however, the consolation, that the results of this expedition have been conclusive, and to science highly important, and may be briefly comprehended in the following words : — The discovery of the Gulf of Boothia, the continent and isthmus of Boothia Felix, and a vast number of islands, rivers, and lakes ; the undeniable establishment that the north-east point of America extends to the 74th degree of north latitude ; valuable observations of every kind, but particularly on the magnet ;...
28 ページ - The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.