The Cavaliers of Fortune: Or, British Heroes in Foreign Wars, Volumen500

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Routledge, Warnes, Routledge, 1859 - 404 páginas

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Página 305 - Sebastopol, and the virtual conclusion of the war, I have had but one short interval of repose. My sincere desire has been, and is, to tell the truth, as far as I know it, respecting all I have witnessed. Many incidents in the war, from various hands (many of them now cold for ever), I have availed myself of; but the matter of the work is cbiefl} composed of the iacts and materials accumulated in my letters.
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Página 282 - He threatened to spit" men, and to roast them: and he killed some in cold blood, or rather in hot blood; for he was then drunk, when he ordered one to be hanged, because he would not tell where his father was, for whom he was in search.
Página 10 - I reckon near eight hundred are employed upon the road to Pondicherry, laden with sugar, pepper, and other goods ; and as for the Coulis, they are all employed for the same purpose, from the first day we came here. " I am taking my measures from this day to set fire to the Black-town, and to blow up the powder-mills. " You will never imagine that fifty French deserters, and...
Página 277 - A sword had rested on the land — it did not pass away ; Long had they watched and waited, but there dawned no brighter day; And many had gone back from them who owned the truth of old, Because of much iniquity their love was waxen cold ! — There came a worn and weary man to Cameron's place of rest, He cast him down upon the sod, he smote upon his breast ; He wept, as only strong men weep, when weep they must or die, And, " Oh ! to be wi' thee, Eitchie ! " was still his bitter cry ! "My brother!

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