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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... nearly thirty years ' service it has never failed me ; and much as I love you all , my dear children , much as it would grieve me to leave you and your dear aunt whenever the shout of war ' is heard and my duty to my country calls me ...
... nearly thirty years ' service it has never failed me ; and much as I love you all , my dear children , much as it would grieve me to leave you and your dear aunt whenever the shout of war ' is heard and my duty to my country calls me ...
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... nearly forgotten to tell you that , while at Limerick with your uncle Charles , going out one day to shoot snipes , he , your uncle , shot one , and springing over a deep ditch in order to get it , he fell and broke his leg , which gave ...
... nearly forgotten to tell you that , while at Limerick with your uncle Charles , going out one day to shoot snipes , he , your uncle , shot one , and springing over a deep ditch in order to get it , he fell and broke his leg , which gave ...
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... , only well bastinadoed . You see , by my being so foolish as to give him drink , he nearly lost his life , was cashiered as an officer , and severely flogged , besides the risk of a fight between the Moors and my men , in which.
... , only well bastinadoed . You see , by my being so foolish as to give him drink , he nearly lost his life , was cashiered as an officer , and severely flogged , besides the risk of a fight between the Moors and my men , in which.
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... Nearly all the officers were per- mitted to go and see Mount Etna except myself . I did not get leave , having consented to take other officers ' duty to let them go , and by that means I was delayed so long that the very day General ...
... Nearly all the officers were per- mitted to go and see Mount Etna except myself . I did not get leave , having consented to take other officers ' duty to let them go , and by that means I was delayed so long that the very day General ...
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... for breakfast , these two fellows , knowing that I dared not stop , ran up and put this savoury dish to my nose by way of tantalising me , who had been on horseback nearly all night and had not eaten anything for many hours.
... for breakfast , these two fellows , knowing that I dared not stop , ran up and put this savoury dish to my nose by way of tantalising me , who had been on horseback nearly all night and had not eaten anything for many hours.
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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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