Memoirs of the Rebellion in 1745 and 1746Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821 - 456 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xxvii
... attacked on the 1st of June , by Graham of Claverhouse , af- terwards Lord Dundee . The honour of the day remained to the insurgents ; but almost imme- diately afterwards they were routed at Bothwell Bridge . Events in England afforded ...
... attacked on the 1st of June , by Graham of Claverhouse , af- terwards Lord Dundee . The honour of the day remained to the insurgents ; but almost imme- diately afterwards they were routed at Bothwell Bridge . Events in England afforded ...
الصفحة xl
... attacked from without . The moment the in- vader appears to be the strongest , he commands the obedience of all those who have any thing to lose . " I do not care , " said an English gen- tleman to the author of the following Memoirs ...
... attacked from without . The moment the in- vader appears to be the strongest , he commands the obedience of all those who have any thing to lose . " I do not care , " said an English gen- tleman to the author of the following Memoirs ...
الصفحة li
... attack , I had formed , I was the last that passed the defile of the first line , and the first that attacked . " " At Clifton , " he says , " I own I disobeyed orders ; but what I did was the only safe and honourable measure I could ...
... attack , I had formed , I was the last that passed the defile of the first line , and the first that attacked . " " At Clifton , " he says , " I own I disobeyed orders ; but what I did was the only safe and honourable measure I could ...
الصفحة lvi
... attack , at Nairn , when no hope of success remained ; he refused , while it was yet time , to abandon Inverness , and take a strong ground on the other side of the water of Nairn , though Clunie Macpherson was expected every moment on ...
... attack , at Nairn , when no hope of success remained ; he refused , while it was yet time , to abandon Inverness , and take a strong ground on the other side of the water of Nairn , though Clunie Macpherson was expected every moment on ...
الصفحة 5
... attacked , in the latitude of 47 ° 57 ' about 39 leagues to the westward of the Lizard - point , by the Lion , an English man - of- war , of sixty guns . The two vessels were of the same force ; and the fight was maintained , with the ...
... attacked , in the latitude of 47 ° 57 ' about 39 leagues to the westward of the Lizard - point , by the Lion , an English man - of- war , of sixty guns . The two vessels were of the same force ; and the fight was maintained , with the ...
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الصفحة xxxix - I heard three sensible middle-aged men, when the Scotch were said to be at Stamford, and actually were at Derby, talking of hiring a chaise to go to Caxton (a place in the high-road) to see the Pretender and Highlanders as they passed.
الصفحة 102 - The children immediately left the press where she had concealed them, and threw themselves at his feet. They affirmed in the newspapers of London that we had dogs in our army trained to fight, and that we were indebted for our victory at Gladsmuir to these dogs, who darted with fury on the English army.
الصفحة 203 - Our separation at Ruthven was truly affecting. We bade one another an eternal adieu. No one could tell whether the scaffold would not be his fate. The Highlanders gave vent to their grief in wild howlings and lamentations; the tears flowed down their cheeks when they thought that their country was now at the discretion of the Duke of Cumberland, and on the point of being plundered; whilst they and their children would be reduced to slavery, and plunged, without resource, into a state of remediless...
الصفحة liii - He was vigilant, active, and diligent; his plans were always judiciously formed, and he carried them promptly and vigorously into execution. However, with an infinity of good qualities, he was not without his defects : — proud, haughty, blunt, and imperious ; he wished to have the exclusive ordering of every thing, and, feeling his superiority, he would listen to no advice.
الصفحة liii - He was tall and robust, and brave in the highest degree; conducting the Highlanders in the most heroic manner, and always the first to rush sword in hand into the midst of the enemy. He used to say, when we advanced to the charge, ' I do not ask you, my lads, to go before, but merely to follow me...
الصفحة 186 - Had Prince Charles slept during the whole of the expedition," says the Chevalier Johnstone, " and allowed Lord George Murray to act for him according to his own judgment, there is every reason for supposing he would have found the crown of Great Britain on his head when he awoke.
الصفحة 122 - The most singular and extraordinary combat immediately followed. The Highlanders, stretched on the ground, thrust their dirks into the bellies of the horses. Some seized the riders by their clothes, dragged them down, and stabbed them with their dirks; several, again, used their pistols; but few of them had sufficient space to handle their swords.
الصفحة 101 - Lochiel entered the lodgings assigned to him, his landlady, an old woman, threw herself at his feet, and with uplifted hands and tears in her eyes, supplicated him to take her life, but to spare her two little children. He asked her if she was in her senses, and told her to explain herself; when she answered, that every body said the Highlanders ate children, and made them their common food. Mr. Cameron having assured her that they would not injure either her, or her little children, or any person...
الصفحة 85 - As your Royal Highness is always for battles, be the circumstances what they may, I now offer you one, in three hours from this time, with the army of Marshal Wade, which is only about two miles distant from us.
الصفحة 146 - There he laid an ambuscade, posting six of his companions, on each side of the highway, to wait the arrival of the detachment of Lord Loudon, enjoining them not to fire till he should tell them, and then not to fire together, but one after another. When the head of the detachment of Lord Loudon was opposite the twelve men, about eleven o'clock in the evening, the blacksmith called out with a loud voice, " Here come the villains; who intend carrying off our Prince ; fire, my lads, do not spare them...