Recollections of Forty Years' ServiceW. Blackwood and sons, 1903 - 386 sider |
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... history became well known to me , and , oddly enough , I found it was also known to several officers in the French army , with whom Scott's novels , and especially ' Quentin Durward , ' were such A favourites . The Scotch Garde du Corps ...
... history became well known to me , and , oddly enough , I found it was also known to several officers in the French army , with whom Scott's novels , and especially ' Quentin Durward , ' were such A favourites . The Scotch Garde du Corps ...
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... history of the regiment begins as follows : " In the reign of Achaius of Scotland , in the year 800. " Some one considering that date not sufficiently ancient added the letters B.C. To a Celtic Scot a pedigree which cannot be traced ...
... history of the regiment begins as follows : " In the reign of Achaius of Scotland , in the year 800. " Some one considering that date not sufficiently ancient added the letters B.C. To a Celtic Scot a pedigree which cannot be traced ...
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... History , Geography , Latin , Mathematics , Surveying , and Fortification . The Peninsular War furnished the object - lessons in Forti- fication , the senior instructor in which had spoken so often about Badajos that at last he believed ...
... History , Geography , Latin , Mathematics , Surveying , and Fortification . The Peninsular War furnished the object - lessons in Forti- fication , the senior instructor in which had spoken so often about Badajos that at last he believed ...
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... history . Having , as already stated , when in the quarter- master - general's department at Canton , had to copy the plans and charts of the coast north and south of the Peiho , which Colonel Fisher , R.E. , made after the disastrous ...
... history . Having , as already stated , when in the quarter- master - general's department at Canton , had to copy the plans and charts of the coast north and south of the Peiho , which Colonel Fisher , R.E. , made after the disastrous ...
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... history lectures were interesting , but could hardly be considered as particularly instructive ; but what some of us thought fully made up for defects in this branch of the work was the mental exercise as regards original thought which ...
... history lectures were interesting , but could hardly be considered as particularly instructive ; but what some of us thought fully made up for defects in this branch of the work was the mental exercise as regards original thought which ...
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