 | John Home - 1802 - 456 pages
...it more firm ; and in thefe places there were feveral fmall inclofurcs with hedges, dry ftone dykes, and willow trees. In the front, and but a few paces...the King's army, there was a ditch, with a thick and ftrong hedge. THE diftance between the two armies, that were feparated by this uncouth piece of ground,... | |
 | John Home - 1822 - 466 pages
...more firm ; and in these places there were several small inclosures, with hedges, dry stone dykes, and willow trees. In the front, and but a few paces...half a mile. In number they were nearly equal ; the superiority, though but small, was on the side of the rebels.* Lord George Murray, Lieutenant-General... | |
 | John Struthers - 1828 - 676 pages
...enclosures, with hedges, dry stone dykes, and willow trees. In the front, but a few paces from that of the king's army, there was a ditch, with a thick and strong hedge. " The position," says the chevalier de Johnstone, who fought in the pretender's army, " was chosen with a... | |
 | John Struthers - 1828 - 660 pages
...enclosures, with hedges, dry stone dykes, and willow trees. In the front, but a few paces from that of the king's army, there was a ditch, with a thick and strong hedge. " The position," says the chevalier de Johnstone, who fought in the pretender's army, " was chosen with a... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1841 - 540 pages
...kina's army there was a swamp or morass cut by hedges, dry stone dykes, and willow trees ; and dose in front of the king's army there was a ditch with a thick and strong hedge. It was about time in the afternoon when Kerr of Gradon, mounted upon a little white pony, rode down... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1846 - 516 pages
...king's army there was a swamp or morass cut by hedges, dry stone dykes, and willow-trees ; and close in front of the king's army there was a ditch with a thick and strong hedge. It was about three in the afternoon when Kerr of Gradon, mounted upon a little white pony, rode down... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1792 - 950 pages
...king's army there was a swamp or morass cut by hedges, dry stone dykes, and willow trees ; and close in front of the king's army there was a ditch with a thick and strong hedge. It was about three in the afternoon when Kerr of Gradon, mounted upon a little white pony, rode down... | |
 | Charles Sanford Terry - 1922 - 256 pages
...it more firm; and in these places there were several small inclosures with hedges, dry stone dykes, and willow trees. In the front, and but a few paces...there was a ditch, with a thick and strong hedge. On 2 Thursday the igth, in the evening, the Chevalier had certain intelligence that G 11 Cope had marched... | |
 | Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (the Elder.) - 1910 - 258 pages
...it more firm; and in these places there were several small inclosures with hedges, dry stone dykes, and willow trees. In the front, and but a few paces...there was a ditch, with a thick and strong hedge. On* Thursday the 19th, in the evening, the Chevalier had certain intelligence that G11 Cope had marched... | |
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... of springs, that formed a run of water, which went down in a ditch to Seaton, where it ended in a mill-dam. In this boggy ground there were a great many cuts and drains which had made some parts of it more firm ; and in these places there were several... 