Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown; Constable; Hurst, Robinson, 1822 |
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afterwards Alexander Alexander Mackenzie Argyle Argyleshire arms army Athole Athole Highlanders attack battalion battle Black Watch brave Breadalbane brigade British Caithness called Cameron Campbell Captain cavalry character Chief clan Colonel command companies conduct corps detachment died Drummers Duke Duncan Macpherson duty Earl embarked embodied enemy enemy's Ensign Fencible regiment field fire flank force formed forward Fraser French front garrison gentlemen George Gordon Gordon Highlanders half-pay Highland regiments honour Inverness Ireland Isle of Skye Isles James John joined killed and wounded Laird land Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Lochaber Lochiel Lord Lord Cornwallis loss Lowlands Macdonald Macgregor Mackenzie Macleod Macpherson Major Major-General manner marched ment military Munro native neral occasion officers ordered Perth Perthshire punishment Quatre Bras raised rank and file recruits redoubt regi regiment retired retreat Scotch Scotland second battalion serjeants soldiers spirit Stewart success Sutherland tion troops William
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Page 63 - ... of your enemies, and had gone nigh to have overturned the state in the war before the last. These men, in the last war, were brought to combat on your side ; they served with fidelity, as they fought with valour, and conquered for you in every part of the world.
Page lxxx - AB do swear and as I shall answer to God at the great day of judgment...
Page 15 - Every thing that the most determined bravery could attempt was repeatedly tried in vain by the troops, who were brought forward from the trenches in succession. No man outlived the attempt to gain the ridge...
Page 19 - Freyre took possession, and quitted all their works and positions in front of St. Jean de Luz during the night, and retired upon Bidart, destroying all the bridges on the lower Nivelle.
Page 343 - And if he were not the greatest king, if he were without some parts and qualities which have made some kings great and happy, no other prince was ever unhappy who was possessed of half his virtues and endowments, and so much without any kind of vice.
Page lxxx - I have not, nor shall have, in my possession, any gun, sword, pistol, or arm whatsoever, and never use tartan, plaid or any part of the Highland garb ; and if I do so, may I be cursed in my undertakings, family, and property, — may I never see my wife...
Page 61 - ... for this medicine, he would prepare it, and allow the experiment to be tried on his own neck by the strongest and most expert warrior amongst them. This story easily gained upon the superstitious eredulity of the Indians, and the request of the Highlander was instantly complied with. Being sent into the woods, he soon returned with such plants as he chose to pick up.
Page 340 - He was too large to stand in the ranks, and generally stood on the right of the regiment when in line, and marched at the head when in column ; but he was always accompanied by a mountain deer of uncommon size.
Page 61 - Macpherson, one of these soldiers, witnessing the miserable fate of several of his fellow-prisoners, who had been tortured to death by the Indians, and seeing them preparing to commence the same operations upon himself, made signs that he had something to communicate. An interpreter was brought. Macpherson told them, that, provided his life was spared for a few minutes, he would communicate the secret of an extraordinary medicine, which, if applied to the skin, would cause it to resist the strongest...
Page 92 - Gaelic to the men, au old Highlander, who had accompanied his son to Glasgow, was leaning on his staff gazing at the General with great earnestness. When he had finished, the old man walked up to him, and with that easy familiar intercourse which in those days subsisted between the Highlanders and their superiors, shook him by the hand, exclaiming, " Simon, you are a good soldier, and speak like a man ; so long as you live, Simon of Lovat will never die...