The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine, Partea 3H. Colburn, 1831 |
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Pagina 42
... a line of about four miles of the beach west of Portland ; but we could not hear of any living thing that had been saved . ( To be continued . ) REMINISCENCES OF A SUBALTERN . NO . VII . Ar 42 RECOLLECTIONS OF A SEA LIfe .
... a line of about four miles of the beach west of Portland ; but we could not hear of any living thing that had been saved . ( To be continued . ) REMINISCENCES OF A SUBALTERN . NO . VII . Ar 42 RECOLLECTIONS OF A SEA LIfe .
Pagina 51
... miles across a perfect flat , without the slightest pro- tection from any incident of ground , without artillery , and I might say without cavalry , ( for what were four or five squadrons to twenty or thirty ? ) did the third division ...
... miles across a perfect flat , without the slightest pro- tection from any incident of ground , without artillery , and I might say without cavalry , ( for what were four or five squadrons to twenty or thirty ? ) did the third division ...
Pagina 52
... miles and a half off shore , between which , and the shoal extending from the point , is a channel of six fathoms : there is also a dry sand bank bearing north- east of Cape Suellaba , which has a spit of about two miles in length ...
... miles and a half off shore , between which , and the shoal extending from the point , is a channel of six fathoms : there is also a dry sand bank bearing north- east of Cape Suellaba , which has a spit of about two miles in length ...
Pagina 55
... miles from Cape Cameroons , numerous canoes came alongside with goats and other live and dead stock , which met with a ready market at reasonable prices . Many of these canoes had thirty - four rowers , being about sixty - four feet in ...
... miles from Cape Cameroons , numerous canoes came alongside with goats and other live and dead stock , which met with a ready market at reasonable prices . Many of these canoes had thirty - four rowers , being about sixty - four feet in ...
Pagina 56
... miles of the shore , although the land is very high . We were the whole of the afternoon employed beating up to the bay on the north - west side , tacking sometimes within two cables ' length of the rocks , where we generally had twenty ...
... miles of the shore , although the land is very high . We were the whole of the afternoon employed beating up to the bay on the north - west side , tacking sometimes within two cables ' length of the rocks , where we generally had twenty ...
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17th Light Dragoons Admiral amongst appeared appointed arms army arrived artillery attack battalion battle Bermuda boats Brevet brig brigade British Cadet called Capt Captain cavalry charge Clare Castle Colonel command commenced conduct corps crew Curaçoa Desaix Ditto Dragoons duty enemy enemy's feeling fire fleet Foot force French frigate Gascon Gent George Guards guns half-pay head honour horse infantry island John July June Lady land late Lieut Lieut.-Colonel Lieutenant light Lord Mahébourg Majesty's Major-Gen Malta Mauritius ment midshipmen miles military natives naval navy observed occasion officers passed persons Plymouth Port Louis Portsmouth post-captain present promotion quarters rank received regiment Regt respect river Royal sailed schooner seamen Sept ship shore shot Sir John Moore soldiers Spanish squadron station taken tion Trincomalee troops vessel vice Wallajabad whilst whole William wind wounded
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Pagina 527 - ... tried by the bitterest calamities; by the want of meat, of fire, and of clothes; by the importunity of creditors, by the insolence of booksellers, by the derision of fools, by the insincerity of patrons, by that bread which is the bitterest of all food, by those stairs which are the most toilsome of all paths, by that deferred hope which makes the heart sick.
Pagina 241 - That provision should be viewed, as it really was, a reasonable compensation offered by Congress, at a time when they had nothing else to give to the officers of the army for services then to be performed. It was the only means to prevent a total dereliction of the service. It was a part of their hire. I may be allowed to say, it was the price of their blood, and of your independency ; it is therefore more than a common debt, it is a debt of honor; it can never be considered as a pension or gratuity,...
Pagina 517 - It has a strange quick jar upon the ear, That cocking of a pistol, when you know A moment more will bring the sight to bear...
Pagina 252 - Jan. 1 1. [The Queen has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting the dignity of a Baron of the said United Kingdom unto Alfred Tennyson, Esq., and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten...
Pagina 523 - For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red: it is full of mixture, and he poureth out of the same : but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
Pagina 112 - LET it be granted that a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point.
Pagina 109 - ... command of his superior officer, shall suffer death, or such other punishment as shall, according to the nature of his offence, be inflicted upon him by the sentence of a courtmartial.
Pagina 51 - ... of us. Picton took off his hat, and holding it over his eyes as a shade from the sun, looked sternly but anxiously at the French. The clatter of the horses and the clanking of the scabbards were so great when the right half squadron moved up, that many thought it the forerunner of a general charge. Some mounted officer called out, ' Had we not better form square ?' ' No,' replied Picton ; ' it is but a ruse to frighten us ; but it won't do.
Pagina 467 - Besides the diameter of the sun is 111 times as great as that of the earth, and at its surface, a heavy body would fall through no less than 450 feet in a single second ; so that if every other circumstance permitted human beings to re'side on it, their own weight would present an insuperable difficulty, since it would become thirty times as great as upon the surface of the earth, and a man of moderate size would weigh above two tons.
Pagina 481 - Allemans, aussi avec ces armes peut-on mieux combattre en host, que avec les lances ; car si on ne combat en haye, les lanciers s'embarrassent plus ; et le combat en haye, n'est pas si asseure qu'en host.