Lives of the Lindsays: Or, A Memoir of the Houses of Crawford and Balcarres, Band 3J. Murray, 1849 - 489 Seiten |
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Seite 95 - ... and since it includes not in its idea the supposition of any convention which should place limits to the operations of force, it has naturally no boundary but that in which force terminates — the destruction of the life against which the force is directed.
Seite 46 - ABATIS, (Fr.) trees cut down and laid with their branches turned towards the enemy, in such a way as to form a defence for troops stationed behind them.
Seite 94 - The employment to which these dogs are generally put by the Spaniards, is the pursuit of wild bullocks, which they slaughter for the hides; and the great use of the...
Seite 191 - ... known to ordinary experience, and exaggeration was natural. I have been close to a bamboo jungle on fire. There was a great deal of noise comparable to musketry ; but the bamboos were not of the large kind here spoken of. The Hon. Robert Lindsay, describing his elephant-catching in Silhet, says : "At night each man lights a fire at his post, and furnishes himself with a dozen joints of the large bamboo, one of which he occasionally throws into the fire, and the air it contains being rarefied...
Seite 10 - ... in a loud tone that he was come by the Governor's order, to make them an offer of terms and treat for peace, which the white people sincerely desired. An answer was returned, declaring that the Maroons wished the same, and requesting that the troops might be kept back.
Seite 120 - Maroons were induced to surrender, from a reliance which they had on my word — from a conviction impressed upon them by me that the white people would never break their faith. " All these things strongly call upon me, as the instrumental agent in this business, to see a due observance of the terms...
Seite 338 - Young man, I cannot write to the general at present, but tell him that I hope he is as much at ease on shore as I am on board.
Seite 163 - This district had for some years fallen under the superintendence of the Dacca Council : and, two years previous to my appointment, my friend, Mr. W. Holland, as one of the members of that Council, had been deputed to effect a settlement with the Sylhet landholders, with power to cess with revenue, or levy a rent from those lands held on military tenure. Such a transaction is seldom accomplished without much difficulty. Mr. Holland having finished his business in that troublesome settlement, returned...
Seite 352 - As soon as our gallant and generous enemy are seen to advance in great numbers, the troops are to receive them with three huzzas, and then to be perfectly silent and obedient to their officers. " Whilst they are cool by day, and alert by night, they have nothing to fear. If the enemy want our arms, let them come and take them. " During the attack, the drums and fifes are to assemble round the colours of the 5th Regiment, and beat the 'Grenadiers
Seite 160 - had nothing curious to boast of, or to attract the attention of a stranger, excepting a very remarkable piece of ordnance." It was thirty-six feet long, made of hammered iron, being an immense tube of fourteen bars, with rings driven over them, and beaten down to a smooth surface, so that its appearance was very good, although its proportions were faulty. " By its side lay a stone ball, which...