The Life of Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore, K.B.J. Murray, 1834 |
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... continued this sport until Moore unluckily started in the line of the sword , and received it in his flank . On feel- ing himself wounded he exclaimed , ' Ha ! ' and looked the duke in the face , who , struck with horror , dropt the ...
... continued this sport until Moore unluckily started in the line of the sword , and received it in his flank . On feel- ing himself wounded he exclaimed , ' Ha ! ' and looked the duke in the face , who , struck with horror , dropt the ...
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... continued for three days on a grand scale ; for nearly forty thousand infantry , cavalry , and artillery , were manoeuvred in imitation of a real action . The splendour of the spectacle , accompanied with martial music , and the thunder ...
... continued for three days on a grand scale ; for nearly forty thousand infantry , cavalry , and artillery , were manoeuvred in imitation of a real action . The splendour of the spectacle , accompanied with martial music , and the thunder ...
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... continued some months longer with his father , and acquired the Italian lan- .guage . The party repassed the Alps in mid- summer , and after some stay at Geneva reached Paris . There the ensign quitted his father , to fly to Glasgow . I ...
... continued some months longer with his father , and acquired the Italian lan- .guage . The party repassed the Alps in mid- summer , and after some stay at Geneva reached Paris . There the ensign quitted his father , to fly to Glasgow . I ...
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... continued in garri- son , until more actively employed . Sir Henry Clinton , Commander - in - chief of the British army , thought it advisable to take possession of the Bay of Penobscot , and to build a fort , as a maritime station , to ...
... continued in garri- son , until more actively employed . Sir Henry Clinton , Commander - in - chief of the British army , thought it advisable to take possession of the Bay of Penobscot , and to build a fort , as a maritime station , to ...
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... his ruling passion ; he continued anxiously desirous of military rank . No opportunity however occurred until the year 1787 , when two new battalions were added to the 60th regiment , 36 [ 1786 . LIFE OF SIR JOHN MOORE .
... his ruling passion ; he continued anxiously desirous of military rank . No opportunity however occurred until the year 1787 , when two new battalions were added to the 60th regiment , 36 [ 1786 . LIFE OF SIR JOHN MOORE .
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afterwards alarm Anderson arms army arrived artillery assembled attack Bastia batteries bayonets besieged boats Brigands British camp cannon Captain Castlebar cavalry coast Colonel Moore column command commenced corps Corsicans detachment diers dragoons Duke of Hamilton Duke of York Dundas Egypt embarked enemy enemy's entrenchments escaped father favourable fire flank fleet force Fornelli forward France French frigates front garrison gave Gibraltar grenadiers ground guard guns hill horse hundred infantry inhabitants intelligence Ireland Irish island Lake landed letter Lord Cornwallis Lord Hood Lucia manded ment military Minorca Moore's Morne Fortuné negroes neral night officers orders Paoli party pickets reached rear rebels received redoubt regiment reinforcement repulsed reserve resolved sailed sent ship shore shot siege Sir Charles Stuart Sir Gilbert Elliot Sir James Sir Ralph Abercrombie soldiers soon storm tained thousand tion took town troops Viceroy Vizir Wexford wish wounded