Historical Records of the 7th Or Royal Regiment of Fusiliers: Now Known as the Royal Fusiliers (the City of London Regiment), 1685-1903F.B. Guerin, 1903 - 454 من الصفحات |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
1st Battalion Royal 1st Bn 2nd Bn 4th Division Adjt Albuera Appendix III.-Alphabetical List appointed Army List artillery attack Barton Battalion Royal Fusiliers battery battle battle of Albuera British Bt.-Lieut.-Col Bt.-Maj Busaco Campaign Cape Colony Capt Captain capture cavalry Ciudad Rodrigo Colonel Colour-Sergeant Colours command companies corps Crimea Depôt despatches detachment Died disbanded Duke embarked enemy enemy's fire force French Fusilier Brigade garrison George Grenadier Guards guns head-quarters honour Infantry John joined killed late Lieut Lieut.-Col Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Light Division Light Drs List of Officers London London Gazette Lord Lord Wellington Maj.-Gen Major Major-General March Martinique Medal with clasp mentioned in despatches Militia non-commissioned officers ordered Peninsula Peninsula War Queen Regiment Regt Retired Rifles Royal Welsh Fusiliers Sebastopol sent Sept Sergeant Served severely wounded siege Transvaal troops unatt Vide Appendix III.-Alphabetical Waller's Records Wellington William
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 124 - In vain did Soult with voice and gesture animate his Frenchmen ; in vain did the hardiest veterans break from the crowded columns and sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself bear up, and fiercely striving, fire indiscriminately upon friends and foes, while the horsemen hovering on the flank threatened to charge the advancing line. Nothing could stop that astonishing infantry. No sudden burst of undisciplined valour, no nervous...
الصفحة 124 - But suddenly and sternly recovering, they closed on their terrible enemies, and then was seen with what a strength and majesty the British soldier fights...
الصفحة 124 - ... onwards as to an assured victory ; they wavered, hesitated, and then vomiting forth a storm of fire, hastily endeavoured to enlarge their front, while a fearful discharge of grape, from all their artillery, whistled through the British ranks. Myers was killed, Cole...
الصفحة 124 - ... front, their measured tread shook the ground, their dreadful volleys swept away the head of every formation, their deafening shouts overpowered the dissonant cries that broke from all parts of the tumultuous crowd, as slowly and with a horrid carnage it was pushed by the incessant vigour of the attack to the farthest edge of the hill.
الصفحة 124 - In vain did Soult, by voice and gesture, animate his Frenchmen ; in vain did the hardiest veterans, extricating themselves from the crowded columns, sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself bear up, and fiercely striving, fire indiscriminately upon friends and foes, while the horsemen hovering on the Hank threatened to charge the advancing line.
الصفحة 123 - Such a gallant line, issuing from the midst of the smoke, and rapidly separating itself from the confused and broken multitude, startled the enemy's heavy masses, which were increasing and pressing onwards as to an assured victory ; they wavered, hesitated, and then vomiting forth a storm of fire, hastily endeavoured to enlarge their front, while a fearful discharge of grape from all their artillery whistled through the British ranks.
الصفحة 124 - Frenchmen, in vain did the hardiest veterans break from the crowded columns and sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself bear up, and, fiercely striving, fire indiscriminately upon friends and foes, while the horsemen hovering on the flank endeavoured to charge the advancing line.
الصفحة 3 - These are to authorise you by beat of drum or otherwise to raise so many men in any county or part of our Kingdom of Great Britain as shall be wanting to compleat the said regiment to the above mentioned numbers.
الصفحة 146 - Every regiment charged with the bayonet ; and the 40th ¡ the 7th, 20th, and 23d, four different times. Their officers set them the example, and Major-General Ross had two horses shot under him.
الصفحة 28 - ... the horse being no farther engaged than merely covering * " Though the Prince of Wirtemberg sent one of his aids-de-camp twice to require succours from Count Solmes, and at last procured a positive command from the king himself, so jealous was the said Count of the Prince's glory, and so throughly did he hate the English, that he ordered his horse, which he knew could not act for want of room, to march, and his foot to halt, purposely that the English might be massacred, and the Prince foiled,...