The History of the Tenth Foot (the Lincolnshire Regiment).Regimental Committee, 1911 |
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Pagina 205 - He says they will be lions while we are lambs ; but if we take the resolute part, they will undoubtedly prove very meek.
Pagina 107 - I obliged twenty-six entire Battalions and twelve Squadrons of Dragoons to surrender themselves prisoners at discretion. We took likewise all their tents standing, with their cannon and ammunition, as also a great number of standards, kettle-drums, and colours in the action, so that I reckon the greater part of Mons, de Tallard's Army is taken or destroyed.
Pagina 164 - ... with furious exclamations and execrable curses against the duke of Ormond, as a stupid tool, and general of straw. The colonels, captains, and other brave officers, were so overwhelmed with vexation, that they sat apart in their tents, looking on the ground through . very shame, with downcast eyes ; and for several days shrunk from the sight even of their fellow soldiers.
Pagina 143 - Even at that late period of the season Ghent was besieged, and soon submitted. Bruges followed its example. " Thus terminated this extraordinary campaign, perhaps one of the most scientific occurring in the annals of military history. From the commencement to the close, the confederates had to struggle against a force far superior in numbers ; to attack an army posted in a position considered as impregnable ; to besiege a place of the first magnitude at the very moment when they were themselves in...
Pagina 146 - Now as to our fighting underground, blowing up like kites in the air, not being sure of a foot of ground we stand on while in the trenches. Our miners and the enemy very often meet each other, when they have sharp combats till one side gives way. We have got into three or four of the enemy's great galleries, which are thirty or forty feet underground and lead to several of their chambers ; and in these we fight in armour...
Pagina 224 - The trials we have had show the rebels are not the despicable rabble too many have supposed them to be, and I find it owing to a military spirit, encouraged among them for a few years past, joined with an uncommon degree of zeal and enthusiasm, that they are otherwise.
Pagina 125 - A good cloth coat, well lined, which may serve for the waistcoat the second year; a pair of good thick kersey breeches ; a pair of good strong stockings ; a pair of good strong shoes ; a good shirt and a neckcloth ; a good strong hat, well laced.
Pagina 259 - ... attention to the gentlemen and considerable inhabitants ; and as nothing can so much tend to conciliate their affections as an orderly and polite behaviour towards them, and an observance of the strictest discipline in all your quarters, you will give the most positive orders on that head ; and you will immediately make such a disposition of your recruiting parties as may best answer that end.
Pagina 107 - It lasted with great vigour till sunset, when the enemy were obliged to retire, and by the blessing of God we obtained a complete victory. We have cut off great numbers of them, as well in the action as in the retreat, besides upwards of...
Pagina 222 - As we approached, an incessant stream of fire poured from the rebel lines. It seemed a continued sheet of fire for near thirty minutes. Our Light Infantry were served up in companies against the grass fence without being able to penetrate. Indeed, how could we penetrate? Most of our Grenadiers and Light Infantry the moment of presenting themselves lost three-fourths, and many nine-tenths, of their men. Some had only eight and nine men a company left, some only three, four, and five.