Recollections of military service in 1813,1814, & 18151845 |
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... circumstance I contracted a sort of intimacy with the 73rd , and felt at times almost ashamed of being only half a soldier . My ardour for military life was somewhat damped by the cruelty practised on a number of invalids from va- rious ...
... circumstance I contracted a sort of intimacy with the 73rd , and felt at times almost ashamed of being only half a soldier . My ardour for military life was somewhat damped by the cruelty practised on a number of invalids from va- rious ...
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... circumstance had almost overcome my desire for glory ; and I was leaving the place to re- turn home when I met the major , to whom I related the reason I had not delivered his note , and he then sent me with a sergeant to another doctor ...
... circumstance had almost overcome my desire for glory ; and I was leaving the place to re- turn home when I met the major , to whom I related the reason I had not delivered his note , and he then sent me with a sergeant to another doctor ...
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... circumstance to the colonel as soon as he came on deck , who immediately sent for Lieutenant Brown , and inquired the reason I was not settled with . The lieutenant replied that " I had been settled with before leaving the depôt . " The ...
... circumstance to the colonel as soon as he came on deck , who immediately sent for Lieutenant Brown , and inquired the reason I was not settled with . The lieutenant replied that " I had been settled with before leaving the depôt . " The ...
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... circumstance I have no doubt , had he afterwards conducted himself well , he would have been rapidly promoted ; but in the first action we entered he proved himself a rank coward , and the officers then turned their backs on him . The ...
... circumstance I have no doubt , had he afterwards conducted himself well , he would have been rapidly promoted ; but in the first action we entered he proved himself a rank coward , and the officers then turned their backs on him . The ...
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... circumstances , would have been death . In a few minutes afterwards the relieving sen- tinels came round , so that I had been asleep nearly two hours . I did not feel any more inclination for sleep that night . I thanked God for my ...
... circumstances , would have been death . In a few minutes afterwards the relieving sen- tinels came round , so that I had been asleep nearly two hours . I did not feel any more inclination for sleep that night . I thanked God for my ...
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Page 174 - 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 the tribune, he reared the throne of his despotism.
Page 174 - ... despotism. A professed Catholic, he imprisoned the Pope ; a pretended patriot, he impoverished the country ; and in the name of Brutus, he grasped without remorse, and wore without shame, the diadem of the Caesars! Through this pantomime of his policy, fortune played the clown to his caprices. At his touch, crowns...
Page 173 - 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...
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Page 176 - Such a medley of contradictions, and, at the same time, such an individual consistency, were never united in the same character. A royalist, a republican, and an emperor; a Mohammedan, a Catholic...
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Page 173 - 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 character — the most extraordinary, perhaps, that in the annals of this world, ever rose, or reigned, or fell.