Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... guards who held the Sandbag battery at Inkermann . Amongst the British cavalry was a regiment of Scots Greys and another of Royal Dragoons , equal in valour to those who , more than a century afterwards , charged across the sunken road ...
... guards who held the Sandbag battery at Inkermann . Amongst the British cavalry was a regiment of Scots Greys and another of Royal Dragoons , equal in valour to those who , more than a century afterwards , charged across the sunken road ...
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... guard over four hundred and ninety - two prisoners . His prisoners , too , were restive , when they saw how slender was the crew of the Centurion , and how many of them were mere striplings . They became furious with shame at having ...
... guard over four hundred and ninety - two prisoners . His prisoners , too , were restive , when they saw how slender was the crew of the Centurion , and how many of them were mere striplings . They became furious with shame at having ...
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... guard , lying down , when his turn came , for a brief sleep , dressed , and with a weapon by his side . Thus guarding his prize , Anson reached Canton on June 30. There he liberated his prisoners , and started on his voyage home by the ...
... guard , lying down , when his turn came , for a brief sleep , dressed , and with a weapon by his side . Thus guarding his prize , Anson reached Canton on June 30. There he liberated his prisoners , and started on his voyage home by the ...
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... Guards Blue , " " the Scots Greys . " " the Grenadier Guards , " " the King's Regiment , " " the Scotch Fusiliers , " " the Welsh Fusiliers , " & c . The Earl of Stair himself was a Scottish veteran , familiar with battles , though not ...
... Guards Blue , " " the Scots Greys . " " the Grenadier Guards , " " the King's Regiment , " " the Scotch Fusiliers , " " the Welsh Fusiliers , " & c . The Earl of Stair himself was a Scottish veteran , familiar with battles , though not ...
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... Guards . Under Ligonier it was composed almost exclusively of Irishmen , and he so tempered and shaped it by disci- pline that it became , perhaps , the finest single regiment of horse in Europe . Carlyle says , somewhat unkindly , that ...
... Guards . Under Ligonier it was composed almost exclusively of Irishmen , and he so tempered and shaped it by disci- pline that it became , perhaps , the finest single regiment of horse in Europe . Carlyle says , somewhat unkindly , that ...
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