The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Band 4J. Ballantyne and Company, 1813 |
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... enemy , and with the gloomy pre- dictions of many amongst ourselves ; to compare the present state of things with what it was when the whole of the peninsula was in the power of the enemy - when not a breath of resist- ance was any ...
... enemy , and with the gloomy pre- dictions of many amongst ourselves ; to compare the present state of things with what it was when the whole of the peninsula was in the power of the enemy - when not a breath of resist- ance was any ...
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... enemy on our coast , as to fit our- selves for that vital struggle by a sys- tem of active and enterprising hostility ; enuring our soldiers to the duties and hardships of war - interposing obsta- cles to the progress of the enemy while ...
... enemy on our coast , as to fit our- selves for that vital struggle by a sys- tem of active and enterprising hostility ; enuring our soldiers to the duties and hardships of war - interposing obsta- cles to the progress of the enemy while ...
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... enemy has been changed . And are not our own feelings at least equally altered ? Let us recollect that period , at the com- mencement of the war , when we were in daily expectation of some attempt at invasion ; we were all indeed con ...
... enemy has been changed . And are not our own feelings at least equally altered ? Let us recollect that period , at the com- mencement of the war , when we were in daily expectation of some attempt at invasion ; we were all indeed con ...
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... enemy's navy , it was necessary to keep so many ships ready , the first lord replied , " that we were compelled to keep up our numerical superiority , because it was necessary to be at all times prepared to face the enemy in all parts ...
... enemy's navy , it was necessary to keep so many ships ready , the first lord replied , " that we were compelled to keep up our numerical superiority , because it was necessary to be at all times prepared to face the enemy in all parts ...
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... enemy , know- ing that a small guard only had been sent to secure the place , attempted to cut them off during the night : this guard , unknown to them , had been re- inforced in the evening ; the attack was repulsed , and on the 9th ...
... enemy , know- ing that a small guard only had been sent to secure the place , attempted to cut them off during the night : this guard , unknown to them , had been re- inforced in the evening ; the attack was repulsed , and on the 9th ...
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Seite 26 - An act for the more effectual preserving the King's person and government, by disabling papists from sitting in either house of parliament.
Seite 26 - I AB do sincerely promise and swear, That I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to His Majesty King George...
Seite 195 - The question was negatived without a division. A motion, originating in worthier motives, and intended for a better purpose, was made by April 4. Mr Barham, that a committee should be appointed to consider and report upon the practicability and expediency of supplying our West India colonies with free labourers from the East.
Seite 445 - No expressions of mine could do justice to the conduct of the troops throughout. Nothing less than the almost unparalleled exertions of every officer, the invincible bravery of every soldier, and the most determined devotion to the honour of his Majesty's arms in all, could have achieved this brilliant success, against such a formidable enemy so posted.
Seite 448 - It is to be hoped that the example of what has occurred in this country will teach the people of this and of other nations what value they ought to place on such promises and assurances ; and that there is no security for life, or for anything which makes life valuable, excepting in decided resistance to the enemy.
Seite 273 - Cole's division was therefore ordered to form an oblique line to the rear of our right, with his own right thrown back. And the intention of the enemy to attack our right becoming evident, I requested general Blake to form part of his first line, and all his second, to that front, which was done.
Seite 448 - ... by promises of good treatment to remain, they were plundered, and .many of their houses destroyed on the night the enemy withdrew from their position; and they have since burnt every town and village through which they have passed.
Seite 445 - Norcott's two companies of the 2d rifle corps, and Major Acheson, with a part of the 67th foot (separated from the regiment in the wood), formed on the right. Colonel Wheatly's brigade, with three companies of the Coldstream guards, under Lieut.
Seite 256 - I intended they should be, I consider the action that was fought by the Light division, by Colonel Beckwith's brigade principally, with the whole of the 2nd corps, to be one of the most glorious that British troops were ever engaged in.
Seite 36 - Highness's views for the security and happiness of the country. Mr. Perceval has never failed to regret the impression of Your Royal Highness with regard to the provisions of the Regency Bill which His Majesty's servants felt it to be their duty to recommend to Parliament. But he ventures to submit to Your Royal Highness that, whatever difficulties the present awful crisis of the country and the world may create in the administration of the executive government, Your Royal Highness will not...