A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans, Volume 4A. Fullarton & Company, 1838 - Clans |
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afterwards Alexander amongst Argyle army Athole attack battle brigade British brother Cameron Campbell Captain cavalry Chevalier de St chief Clan Chattan Clan Donald Colonel command companies consequence corps descended detachment division Donald Duke Duncan Earl Earl of Ross eighteen hundred embarked enemy enemy's Ensigns expedition favour Fencibles fire flank force formed France Fraser French garrison Glengary Gordon Gordon Highlanders Grant grenadiers Highland regiment honour Isles James John joined killed King lands letter Lieutenant Lieutenant-colonel light infantry Lochaber Lochiel Lord Lord Cornwallis Lord George Murray Lord Wellington Macdonald Mackenzie Mackintosh Maclean Macleod Macpherson Majesty Majesty's Major Major-general marched ment Murray officers Paris party Perth possession Prince Charles raised rank and file received redoubt regiment remained retired retreat Royal Highness Scotland second battalion sent sergeants seventeen hundred Skene soldiers Somerled St George Stewart Strowan thousand tion took troops whilst
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Page 215 - During the season of repose, his time was devoted to the care and instruction of the Officer and Soldier ; in war, he courted service in every quarter of the globe. Regardless of personal considerations, he esteemed that to which his Country called him, the post of honour ; and by his undaunted spirit, and unconquerable perseverance, he pointed the way to victory.
Page 392 - These are subdivided into smaller Branches of fifty or sixty Men, who deduce their Original from their particular Chieftains, and rely upon them as their more immediate Protectors and Defenders.
Page 361 - Nivelle, and had its right thrown back to a ravine near Merke Braine, which was occupied, and its left extended to a height above the hamlet Ter la Haye, which was likewise occupied. In front of the right centre, and near the...
Page 243 - I sought for merit wherever it was to be found. It is my boast, that I was the first minister who looked for it, and I found it in the mountains of the North.
Page 425 - This celebrated chief has been traditionally described as " a well-tempered man, in body shapely, of a fair piercing eye, of middle stature, and of quick discernment.
Page 225 - Queen's regiment. All these operations obliged the enemy to abandon a position which is one of the strongest and most difficult of access that I have yet seen occupied by troops. ' In their retreat from this position, the enemy lost a great number of prisoners. I cannot sufficiently applaud the conduct of all the General Officers, Officers, and troops throughout these operations. The attack made by Lieut.
Page 393 - ... by accidents are fallen to total decay. Some of the chiefs have not only personal dislikes and enmity to each other, but there are also hereditary feuds between clan and clan, which have been handed down from one generation to another for several ages. These quarrels descend to the meanest vassals, and thus sometimes an innocent person suffers for crimes committed by his tribe at a vast distance of time before his being began.
Page 254 - The check which the Grenadiers met with yesterday, will, it is hoped, be a lesson to them for the time to come; such impetuous, irregular, and unsoldierlike proceedings destroy all order, make it impossible for their commanders to form any disposition for an attack, and put it out of the General's power to execute his plan.
Page 137 - were of a higher station in society than that from which soldiers in general are raised ; cadets of gentlemen's families, sons of gentlemen farmers, and tacksmen, either immediately, or distantly descended from gentlemen's families, — men who felt themselves responsible for their conduct to high-minded and honourable families, as well as to a country for which they cherished a devoted affection. They possessed, too, in an eminent degree, the advantage of a commanding external deportment, special...
Page 213 - A cannon-ball struck his left shoulder, and beat him to the ground. He raised himself, and sat up with an unaltered countenance, looking intently at the Highlanders, who were warmly engaged. Captain Hardinge threw himself from his horse, and took him by the hand ; then, observing his anxiety, he told him the 42d were advancing ; upon which his countenance immediately brightened.