Memoirs of a Cavalier, Volume 1J. Ballantyne for J. Ballantyne & Company, 1809 |
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Pagina xvii - Memoirs of a Cavalier : or a Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England; from the year 1632 to the year 1648. Written three-score years ago by an English Gentleman, who served first in the Army of Gustavus Adolphus, the glorious King of Sweden, till his Death ; and after that, in the Royal Army of King Charles the First, from the Beginning of the Rebellion, to the End of that War.
Pagina 68 - Tilly's men were rugged surly fellows, their faces had an air of hardy courage, mangled with wounds and scars, their armour showed the bruises of musket bullets, and the [54] rust of the winter storms. I observed of them their clothes were always dirty, but their arms were clean and bright ; they were used to camp in the open fields, and sleep in the frosts and rain ; their horses were strong and hardy like themselves, and well taught their exercises...