Recollections of Military Service, in 1813, 1814 & 1815, Through Germany, Holland, and France: Including Some Details of the Battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo |
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... appearance , when , borrowing a pair of crutches , he hobbled along to the Court - house ; and on presenting himself before the magistrate , his reply to the usual question , as to what objection he had to serve , was , that he had been ...
... appearance , when , borrowing a pair of crutches , he hobbled along to the Court - house ; and on presenting himself before the magistrate , his reply to the usual question , as to what objection he had to serve , was , that he had been ...
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... appearance of having been very dreadfully punished , whereas , in reality , he did not suffer so much as if he had been struck always on one place . However , as it was , it was considered quite unnecessary , and rather too severe for ...
... appearance of having been very dreadfully punished , whereas , in reality , he did not suffer so much as if he had been struck always on one place . However , as it was , it was considered quite unnecessary , and rather too severe for ...
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... appearance of being likely to do his duty . He had as fine a regiment under his com- mand as any in the service , consisting chiefly of young men , from eighteen to thirty years of age , fit for any sort of duty . Our light company ...
... appearance of being likely to do his duty . He had as fine a regiment under his com- mand as any in the service , consisting chiefly of young men , from eighteen to thirty years of age , fit for any sort of duty . Our light company ...
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... appearance of efficiency . The illness I have alluded to , was confined to our regiment , and was supposed to have been produced by our excessive fatigue , and bad living , throughout Germany . The other portion of the troops had ...
... appearance of efficiency . The illness I have alluded to , was confined to our regiment , and was supposed to have been produced by our excessive fatigue , and bad living , throughout Germany . The other portion of the troops had ...
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... appearance , all the honour rested with us . In again alluding to the battle of Gorde , it will be perceived , that the enemy we defeated , had been detached on a most im- portant duty ; namely , to open the passage for the French ...
... appearance , all the honour rested with us . In again alluding to the battle of Gorde , it will be perceived , that the enemy we defeated , had been detached on a most im- portant duty ; namely , to open the passage for the French ...
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Page 34 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Page 265 - With no friend but his sword, and no fortune but his talents, he rushed into the lists where rank, and wealth, and genius had arrayed themselves, and competition fled from him as from the glance of destiny. He knew no motive...
Page 264 - Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptred hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his own originality. A mind bold, independent, and decisive — a will, despotic in its dictates — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this extraordinary...
Page 265 - Subsidiary to this, there was no creed that he did not profess, there was no opinion that he did not promulgate; in the hope of a dynasty, he upheld the Crescent; for the sake of a divorce, he bowed before the Cross ; the orphan of St. Louis, he became the adopted child of the Republic; and, with a parricidal ingratitude, on the ruins both of the throne and tribune, he reared the throne of his despotism.
Page 244 - The lancer couch'd his ruthless spear, And hurrying as to havoc near, The cohorts' eagles flew. In one dark torrent, broad and strong, The advancing onset...
Page 270 - Kings may learn from him that their safest study, as well as their noblest, is the interest of the people ; the people are taught by him that there is no despotism so stupendous against which they have not a resource; and to those who would rise upon the ruins of both, he is a living lesson that if ambition can raise them from the lowest station, it can also prostrate them from the highest.
Page 214 - Each fights, as in his arm th' important day And all the fate of his great monarch lay : A thousand glorious actions, that might claim Triumphant laurels, and immortal fame, Confus'd in crowds of glorious actions lie, And troops of heroes undistinguish'd die.
Page 270 - ... a model, and without a shadow. His fall, like his life, baffled all speculation. In short, his whole history was like a dream to the world, and no man can tell how or why he was awakened from the reverie.
Page 61 - Advancing at the head of their victorious forces, each upon his own side, the Emperor of Russia, the King of Prussia, and the Crown Prince of Sweden, met and greeted each other in the great square of the city, where they were soon joined by the Emperor of Austria.
Page 158 - Recover those eagles which you had at Ulm, at Austerlitz, at Jena, at Eylau, at Friedland, at Tudela, at Eckmuhl, at Essling, at Wagram, at Smolensko, at Moscow, at Lutzen, at Wurken, at Montmirail.