Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... 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 upon the French cuirassiers at Waterloo . Their officers were men like Cutts and Rowe ...
... 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 upon the French cuirassiers at Waterloo . Their officers were men like Cutts and Rowe ...
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... regiments destined to play a great part in the fight . Tallard covered his centre by a long screen of cavalry , strengthened by two brigades of infantry . His position thus was of great strength at either extremity , but his centre ...
... regiments destined to play a great part in the fight . Tallard covered his centre by a long screen of cavalry , strengthened by two brigades of infantry . His position thus was of great strength at either extremity , but his centre ...
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... regiment was almost destroyed , and its colours fell into the enemy's hands . Cutts , however - nicknamed by his men " the Salaman- der , " from his lust of fighting , and habit of always being found where the fire was hottest - had ...
... regiment was almost destroyed , and its colours fell into the enemy's hands . Cutts , however - nicknamed by his men " the Salaman- der , " from his lust of fighting , and habit of always being found where the fire was hottest - had ...
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... regiments played a brilliant part in continental battles . After Fontenoy , where the Irish regiments alone proved equal to the task of arrest- ing the terrible British column , George II . is reported to have said , " Cursed be the ...
... regiments played a brilliant part in continental battles . After Fontenoy , where the Irish regiments alone proved equal to the task of arrest- ing the terrible British column , George II . is reported to have said , " Cursed be the ...
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... regiment , blocked one avenue of escape , a cavalry force - one regiment of which con- sisted of Scots Greys - guarded the other . The French general in command of Blenheim , believing the situation to be desperate , ignobly abandoned ...
... regiment , blocked one avenue of escape , a cavalry force - one regiment of which con- sisted of Scots Greys - guarded the other . The French general in command of Blenheim , believing the situation to be desperate , ignobly abandoned ...
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