The Military Forces & Institutions of Great Britain and Ireland: Their Constitution, Administration, and Government, Military and CivilSmith, Elder, & Company, 1855 - 399 من الصفحات |
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... hold commands , the system had not worked well . The remedy for the evil was looked for in another direction ; in a more free exercise of the royal power of giving temporary rank to officers , with a view to their being appointed to ...
... hold commands , the system had not worked well . The remedy for the evil was looked for in another direction ; in a more free exercise of the royal power of giving temporary rank to officers , with a view to their being appointed to ...
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... hold perhaps a higher position than the individuals of the Infantry , and are therefore generally placed first by writers on military affairs . The formations and movements of Infantry , however , as at present practised , adapting them ...
... hold perhaps a higher position than the individuals of the Infantry , and are therefore generally placed first by writers on military affairs . The formations and movements of Infantry , however , as at present practised , adapting them ...
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... hold a com- mission until he is sixteen years of age , or rise to the rank of Captain until he has been two years an effective subaltern , or to the degree of Major until he has been six years in the service , Many young men are ...
... hold a com- mission until he is sixteen years of age , or rise to the rank of Captain until he has been two years an effective subaltern , or to the degree of Major until he has been six years in the service , Many young men are ...
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... holds exactly the same position as the Secretary for War and Colonies formerly held . He could take very few of the powers of the Home Secretary without an Act of Parliament ; the late change was made under the power of the prerogative ...
... holds exactly the same position as the Secretary for War and Colonies formerly held . He could take very few of the powers of the Home Secretary without an Act of Parliament ; the late change was made under the power of the prerogative ...
الصفحة 67
... holds the property of his corps . The greater number of com- missions of Colonels are held by Major - Generals , Lieutenant- Generals and even Field - Marshals , who receive the pay of simple Colonels . Formerly the Colonels had great ...
... holds the property of his corps . The greater number of com- missions of Colonels are held by Major - Generals , Lieutenant- Generals and even Field - Marshals , who receive the pay of simple Colonels . Formerly the Colonels had great ...
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absence according adjutant Adjutant-General agent allowed appointed arms army Articles of War Artillery attend authority ballot battalion billetted brevet brigade British British Army Captain Cavalry certificate charge Chelsea Hospital civil clerk Colonel Commander-in-Chief commanding officer commissioned officers constables corps Court of Inquiry Court-Martial Crown defence deputies deputy-lieutenants discharged discipline district Ditto drummer duty East India embodied England enlisted enrolled entitled exercise forces forfeit full-pay half-pay Idem Infantry Ireland justice Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Lord-Lieutenant Majesty Majesty's Marines Martial martial law ment military law Militia Act Mutiny Act non-commissioned officers oath offence Ordnance paid parish Parliament Paymaster peace penalty pension person prisoner punishment Queen's Regulations raised rank received recruit regiment respect Royal Scotland Secretary Secretary at War Secretary-at-War sentence serjeant soldiers Sovran staff subdivision meetings surgeon thereof trial troops United Kingdom volunteer warrant
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الصفحة 270 - I AB do sincerely promise and swear, That I will be faithful, and bear true allegiance, to their Majesties King William and Queen Mary: So help me God.
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الصفحة 392 - Stones of Venice' is the production of an earnest, religious, progressive, and informed mind. The author of this essay on architecture has condensed into it a poetic apprehension, the fruit of awe of God, and delight in nature; a knowledge, love, and just estimate of art; a holding fast to fact and repudiation of hearsay ; an historic breadth, and a fearless challenge of existing social problems, whose union we know not where to find paralleled.
الصفحة 16 - Judgment of his Peers, and according to the known and established Laws of this Realm ; yet nevertheless it being requisite, for the retaining...
الصفحة 152 - ... if the one may interfere for that purpose when the occasion demands it, without the requisition of the magistrate, so may the other too ; if the one may employ arms for that purpose, when arms are necessary, the soldier may do the same. Undoubtedly the same exercise of discretion which requires the private subject to act in subordination to and in aid of the magistrate, rather than upon his own authority, before recourse is had to arms, ought to operate in a still stronger degree with a military...
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الصفحة 394 - ... To those who attended the lectures, the book will be a pleasant reminiscence, to others an exciting novelty. The style — clear, idiomatic, forcible, familiar, but never slovenly ; the searching strokes of sarcasm or irony ; the occasional flashes of generous scorn ; the touches of pathos, pity, and tenderness ; the morality tempered but never weakened by experience and sympathy ; the felicitous phrases, the striking anecdotes, the passages of wise, practical reflection ; all these lose much...
الصفحة 327 - King George the Second, intituled " An Act for the rendering Justices of the Peace more safe in the Execution of their Office, and for indemnifying Constables and others acting in obedience to their Warrants...
الصفحة 29 - Car. 2, c. 6, to be in the king alone; for that "within all his majesty's realms and dominions the sole supreme government, command, and disposition of the militia, and of all forces by sea and land, and of all forts and places of strength...
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