Memoirs and Adventures of Sir John Hepburn, Том 44

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W. Blackwood and sons, 1851 - Всего страниц: 264
 

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Стр. 14 - I was made stand from eleven before noone, to eight of the Clocke in the night Gentry, Armed with Corslet, Head-piece, Bracelets, being Iron to the teeth, in a hot summers day, till I was weary of my life, which ever after made me the more strict in punishing those under my Command.
Стр. 75 - Scottish soldiers' only answer was " New Brandenburg ! Remember New Brandenburg ! " The Scots Brigade still pressed forward, and Highlander and Lowlander, shoulder to shoulder, advanced like moving castles, the long pikes levelled in front, while the rear ranks of musketeers volleyed in security from behind. It was a dreadful retribution. Four colonels, thirty-six other officers, and about three thousand soldiers of the Imperial army were left dead in the streets. Fifty colours were taken, and an...
Стр. 257 - Pallas Armata; or, Militarie Instructions for the Learned : And all generous Spirits, who affect the Profession of Armes.
Стр. 62 - ASI sail'd past green Jura's isle, Among the waters lone, I heard a voice — a sweet low voice, Atween a sigh and moan : With ae babe at her bosom, and Another at her knee, A mother wail'd the bloody wars In Low Germanie.
Стр. 103 - Cannon, and consequently of the field, but the smoake being great, the dust being raised, we were as in a darke cloud, not seeing the halfe of our actions, much less discerning, either the way of our enemies, or yet the rest of our Briggads: whereupon, having a drummer by me, I caused him to beate the Scots march, till it cleared up, which recollected our friends unto us...
Стр. 63 - Germanic. 1 saw him when he sail'd away, And furrow'd far the brine ; And down his foes came to the shore, In many a glittering line : The war-steeds rush'd amang the waves, The guns came flashing free, But could nae keep my gallant love From Low Germanie. Oh say...
Стр. 259 - The Perfection of Military Discipline after the Newest Method, as Practised in England and Ireland, etc., or, the Industrious Souldiers Golden Treasury of Knowledge in the Art of making War.
Стр. 13 - ... related that when standing one day in a publie parade, surrounded by a number of glittering eavaliers and offieers of high military rank, he was aeeosted by a stranger, who, to win his favourable notiee, professed to have eome reeently from Seotland, where he had left his relations well, and eonelnded by naming several persons of high rank.
Стр. 207 - Wherein out of the truest and choysest Informations, are the famous actions of that warlike Prince [Gustavus Adolphus] historically led along. ...Now the third time, revised, corrected, and augmented.
Стр. 104 - that the Scottish regiments first practised firing in platoons, which amazed the Imperialists to such a degree that they hardly knew how to conduct themselves, "t The Scots Brigade was publicly thanked in presence of the whole army, and promised noble rewards, as we are told by Munro, who modestly adds — " The battaile thus happily wonne, his Majesty did principally under God ascribe the glory of the victory to the Sweds and Fynnes horsemen . . . yet it was the Scots Briggads fortune to have gotten...

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