 | 1811 - 724 sider
...complexion ; inured to the extremes of weather and hardships ; to the worst and scantiest food ; to march for days and nights of four hours repose and six hours...devoted to their sovereign, their chief, and their country; religious^without a pernicious superstition ; patient, docile, and obedient." The European... | |
 | 1811 - 640 sider
...the worst and scantiest food ; to march for days and nights of four hours repose and six hours i . progress ; accustomed to laborious toils and the carriage...ferocious but disciplined ; obstinately brave and sus- . . ceptible of enthusiastic excitements ; devoted to their sovereign, their chief, and their... | |
 | 1811 - 596 sider
...with great bodily strength, but generally of short stature, with martial countenance and complexion, inured to the extremes of weather and hardship, to the worst and scantiest food, to march for days and nights, of four hours repose and six hours progress, accustomed to laborious toils,... | |
 | 1813 - 124 sider
...strength, but generally of short stature ; with a martial countenance and complexion. They are described as inured to the extremes of weather and hardship, to the worst and scantiest food, and to marches, for days and nights, of four hours repose and six hours progress ; accustomed to laborious... | |
 | 1914 - 766 sider
...1038 guns. Sir Robert Wilson, who knew the Russian soldiers well at thit period, described them as " accustomed to laborious toils and the carriage of...devoted to their sovereign, their chief, and their country." The Russian cavalry was said by the same authority to be the best mounted on the Continent.... | |
 | Reginald George Burton - 1914 - 248 sider
...stature, with martial countenance and complexion ; inured to the extremes of weather and hardships ; to the worst and scantiest food ; to marches for days...devoted to their sovereign, their chief, and their country. Religious without being weakened by superstition ; patient, docile, and obedient ; possessing... | |
 | Gunther E. Rothenberg - 1980 - 296 sider
...physically fit, inured to hardships, bad weather and little food, capable of long marches and hard work, 'ferocious, but disciplined, obstinately brave, and...devoted to their sovereign, their chief, and their country'. Religion was a powerful motivating force and played an important part in military life. Before... | |
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... repose and six hours progress; accustomed to laborious toils, and the carriage of heavy burthens; ferocious, but disciplined; obstinately brave, and susceptible of enthusiastic excitements ; devoted to their sovereign, their chief, and their country. 