United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal, 第 33 卷H. Colburn, 1840 |
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18th Hussars Aden Admiral advance afterwards America appeared appointed April Army arrived artillery attack batteries battle Bellerophon Bombay Bournabashi brigade British Capt Captain cavalry Chatham Coast of Africa Colonel command Commission compass Cornet corps Cox & Co ditto enemy enemy's Ensign favourable feet fire fleet Foot force French frigates garrison Gent Gibraltar ground guard guns honour horse Iliad infantry island John Kandahar Lady land late letter Lieut Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel light Lord Lord Nelson Major Major-General Mediterranean ment miles military morning Naval Nelson night officers party passed Plymouth port Portsmouth present purch rank regiment Regt remained retires river road Royal sail Scamander ship shore shot Simoïs Sir Edward Pakenham soldiers squadron Strabo tion took town Troad troops tumulus vessel vice Victory village West Indies whilst whole wind Woolwich wounded
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第 57 頁 - And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live. 5 And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.
第 57 頁 - And when it was day, they knew not the land : but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.
第 36 頁 - 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 ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little hell reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him...
第 344 頁 - ... suspension of hostilities to enable the enemy to bury their dead and provide for their wounded, I had required certain propositions to be acceded to as a basis ; among which, this was one: that although hostilities should cease on this side the river until...
第 569 頁 - The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the great seal, granting the dignity of a baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, unto the Right Hon.
第 344 頁 - This unfortunate route had totally changed the aspect of affairs. The enemy now occupied a position from which they might annoy us without hazard, and by means of which they might have been enabled to defeat, in a great measure, the effects of our success on this side the river.
第 21 頁 - I have consulted no man, therefore the whole blame of ignorance in forming my judgment must rest with me.
第 344 頁 - Morgan; and, what is strange and difficult to account for, at the very moment when their entire discomfiture was looked for with a confidence approaching to certainty, the Kentucky reinforcements, in whom so much reliance had been placed, ingloriously fled, drawing after them, by their example, the remainder of the forces, and thus yielding to the enemy that most formidable position.
第 31 頁 - The disposition for the attack being made, it was commenced with so much impetuosity by the light brigade, consisting of the 85th light infantry and the light infantry companies of the army, under the command of Colonel Thornton, that the fortified house was shortly carried, the enemy retiring to the higher grounds. In support of the light brigade I ordered up a brigade under the command of Colonel Brooke, who, with the 44th regiment, attacked the enemy's...
第 21 頁 - Seine would not take into consideration wind or weather. Nor, indeed, could the accident of even three or four ships alter, in my opinion, a destination of importance : therefore such an accident did not weigh in my mind, and I went first to Morea, and then to Egypt.