The United Service Magazine, Volume 65

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H. Colburn, 1851 - Military art and science
 

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Page 312 - ... duty in that state of life unto which it had pleased God to call them.
Page 285 - He was naturally a thirsty soul, and was soon tempted to repeat the draught. One taste provoked another; and he reiterated his visits to the flagon so often that at length his senses were overpowered, his eyes swam in his head, his head gradually declined, and he fell into a deep sleep.
Page 276 - ... chains was Captain, BERRY, late my first Lieutenant (Captain Miller was in the very act of going also, but I directed him to remain): he was supported from our sprit-sail yard, which hooked in the mizenrigging.
Page 277 - ... his officers and ship's company, and tell them of it; which he did: - and, on the quarterdeck of a Spanish first-rate, extravagant as the story may seem, did I receive the swords of vanquished Spaniards; which, as I received, I gave to William Fearney, one of my bargemen; who put them, with the greatest sang-froid, under his arm.
Page 276 - From this most welcome intelligence, it was not long before I was on the quarter-deck; where the Spanish captain, with a bow, presented me his sword, and said the admiral was dying of his wounds.
Page 276 - Pearson, on the larboard gangway, to the forecastle, where I met two or three Spanish officers prisoners to my seamen — they delivered me their swords.
Page 138 - The Navy continues to give protection to our commerce and other national interests in the different quarters of the globe, and, with the exception of a single steamer on the Northern lakes, the vessels in commission are distributed in six different squadrons. The report of the head of that Department will exhibit the services of these squadrons and of the several vessels employed in each during the past year. It is a source of gratification that, while they have been constantly prepared for any hostile...
Page 497 - Force first made conquest, and that conquest, law; Till Superstition taught the tyrant awe, Then shared the tyranny, then lent it aid, And gods of conquerors, slaves of subjects made...
Page 276 - The soldiers of the 69th, with an alacrity which will ever do them credit, and Lieutenant Pearson of the same regiment, were almost the foremost on this service : —the first man who jumped into the enemy's...
Page 470 - Horse — the dark chivalry of India, burst as a thunder-storm cloud, charging into the dry bed of the torrent, driving the foe before them ! At that moment a terrible cry arose on the right. It was the dreadful British shout of battle. It began with the 22nd, and was re-echoed from right to left, from regiment to regiment, along the line.

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