Passages in the Early Military Life of General Sir George T. Napier, K. C. B.: Written by HimselfJ. Murray, 1884 - 295 pages |
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... knew , would do all in his power to make the men volunteer . So he did , for I got an immense number . The officer I allude to was then Lieut . - Colonel Samuel Gibbs ( afterwards a general and Knight of the Bath ) , who had highly ...
... knew , would do all in his power to make the men volunteer . So he did , for I got an immense number . The officer I allude to was then Lieut . - Colonel Samuel Gibbs ( afterwards a general and Knight of the Bath ) , who had highly ...
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... knew them . If he did not , and they could not give an account of themselves , they should be arrested and reported , or sent to headquarters . CH . 1 . SUSPICIOUS CHARACTERS . 37 You are 36 CH . I. GENERAL SIR GEORGE T. NAPIER .
... knew them . If he did not , and they could not give an account of themselves , they should be arrested and reported , or sent to headquarters . CH . 1 . SUSPICIOUS CHARACTERS . 37 You are 36 CH . I. GENERAL SIR GEORGE T. NAPIER .
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... knew the man they had to deal with , for he never would be deterred from giving the benefit of his talents and experience to his country by any insult of any intriguing Ministry ; and so , to their dismay , he went with the army to ...
... knew the man they had to deal with , for he never would be deterred from giving the benefit of his talents and experience to his country by any insult of any intriguing Ministry ; and so , to their dismay , he went with the army to ...
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... enemy pursued us as quickly as pos- sible , in hopes of bringing us to action while in a more open country than he knew we should be in once we reached Astorga . This often obliged the rear - guard under General Paget to be many hours.
... enemy pursued us as quickly as pos- sible , in hopes of bringing us to action while in a more open country than he knew we should be in once we reached Astorga . This often obliged the rear - guard under General Paget to be many hours.
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... knew not if any one of us three should ever eat any dish again . There is an old song and a very true one which begins , ' How merrily we live that soldiers be ! ' and it is one you should always put in practice whenever you can ...
... knew not if any one of us three should ever eat any dish again . There is an old song and a very true one which begins , ' How merrily we live that soldiers be ! ' and it is one you should always put in practice whenever you can ...
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Page 294 - But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow!
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Page 293 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Page 293 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
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