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... officer whom he warranted to be of the highest skill , courage , and experience , and who vindicated this praise by earn- ing among the Royalists the name of Traitor Gun . Two days ... officers were at their devotions the soldiers busied.
... officer whom he warranted to be of the highest skill , courage , and experience , and who vindicated this praise by earn- ing among the Royalists the name of Traitor Gun . Two days ... officers were at their devotions the soldiers busied.
Page 72
Mowbray Morris. • his officers were at their devotions the soldiers busied themselves in less orthodox fashion . One particular act of wanton cruelty was long remembered . After the Covenanters ' last visit the good dames of Aberdeen ...
Mowbray Morris. • his officers were at their devotions the soldiers busied themselves in less orthodox fashion . One particular act of wanton cruelty was long remembered . After the Covenanters ' last visit the good dames of Aberdeen ...
Page 150
... officers demurred . They were weary of a campaign where victory brought no solid fruits , and where the advance of one day seemed to be inevitably followed by the retreat of the next . The invitations and promises of Argyll had begun to ...
... officers demurred . They were weary of a campaign where victory brought no solid fruits , and where the advance of one day seemed to be inevitably followed by the retreat of the next . The invitations and promises of Argyll had begun to ...
Page 155
... officer . Montrose had won a great and important victory . He had completely broken Argyll's power in the High- lands , and indeed for many years to come the mighty Clan Campbell was but the shadow of its former name . It is small ...
... officer . Montrose had won a great and important victory . He had completely broken Argyll's power in the High- lands , and indeed for many years to come the mighty Clan Campbell was but the shadow of its former name . It is small ...
Page 163
... officers , not in Britain only but in France and Germany , prefer this march of Montrose to his most celebrated victories . " But generalship without men will not win battles . The weary work of recruiting began again . Macdonald had ...
... officers , not in Britain only but in France and Germany , prefer this march of Montrose to his most celebrated victories . " But generalship without men will not win battles . The weary work of recruiting began again . Macdonald had ...
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