Military Antiquities Respecting a History of the English Army: From the Conquest to the Present Time, Том 1

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T. Egerton ... & G. Kearsley, 1801 - Всего страниц: 462
 

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Стр. 327 - Soldier 20 pence weekly is to be answered, to the full value thereof, in good Apparel of different kinds, part for winter and part for summer, which is ordered of good quality and stuff for the prices ; patterns whereof must be sent to the Lord Deputy to be compared and prepared as followetb.
Стр. 228 - I had been happy, if the general camp, Pioners and all, had tasted her sweet body, So I had nothing known. O! now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind; farewell content!
Стр. 400 - One Peter Baud, a Frenchman born,' says Stowe, ' and another alien called Peter Van Collen, a gunsmith, both the king's feed men, conferring together, devised and caused to be made certain mortar pieces, being at the mouth from eleven inches unto nineteen inches wide, for the use whereof they...
Стр. 392 - It will no doubt strike the reader with wonder to find a prohibition of firearms in records of such unfathomable antiquity ; and he will probably from hence renew the suspicion which has long been deemed absurd, that Alexander the Great did absolutely meet with some weapons of that kind in India as a passage in Quintus Curtius seems to ascertain. Gunpowder has been known in China, as well as...
Стр. 163 - Maxwell, who commanded it, ordered his men to screw their bayonets into their muzzles to receive them, thinking they meant to decide the affair point to point ; but to his great surprise, when they came within a proper distance, the French threw in a heavy fire, which for a moment staggered his people, who by no means expected...
Стр. 392 - These truly wise men dwelt between the rivers Hyphasis and Ganges; their country Alexander the Great never entered, deterred not by the fear of the inhabitants, but, as I suppose, by religious considerations ; for, had he passed the Hyphasis, he might doubtless have made himself master of the country all round them ; but their cities he could never have taken, though he had led a thousand as brave as Achilles, or three thousand such as Ajax, to the assault : for they come not out into the field to...
Стр. 7 - ... when every tenant of a knight's fee was bound, if called upon, to attend the king in his army for forty days in every year. But this personal attendance growing troublesome in many respects, the tenants found means of compounding for it, by first sending others in their stead, and in process of time by making a pecuniary satisfaction to the Crown in lieu of it. This pecuniary satisfaction...
Стр. 43 - I do fincerely promife and fwear, that I will be faithful, and bear true allegiance to his majefty King George. So help me 'God.
Стр. 388 - India : he says it was thrown from the bottom of a machine called a petrary, and that it came forward as large as a barrel of verjuice, with a tail of fire issuing from it as big as a great sword, making a noise in its passage like thunder, and seeming like a dragon flying through the air; and from the great quantity of fire it threw out, giving such a light, that one might see in the camp as if it had been day.
Стр. 7 - This pecuniary fatisfaction at laft came to be levied by afleflments, at fo much for every knight's fee, under the name of fcutages ; which appear to have been levied for the firft time in the fifth year of Henry...

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