Memoirs and Adventures of Sir John Hepburn, Nide 44W. Blackwood and sons, 1851 - 264 sivua |
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afterwards armour arms Athelstaneford Austrian banner battle Bavarian Bohemia Brandenburg brave bravery bridge camp Captain captured castle cavalier Colonel colours column commanded Count Count Tilly crossed Danube defended Donauwörth Douglas Douglas Peerage drums Duke Duke of Lorraine Dutch Earl Elector Emperor enemy fire flank foot force fortress France French gallant garrison gate German governor Green Brigade guard Guben Gustavus Adolphus Hamilton helmets Hepburn's brigade Highlanders honour horse Imperial Imperialists infantry keteers killed King Laird Leipzig Leslie Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Lorraine Lumsden Marquis Marshal military musketeers night ordered pieces of cannon pikemen pikes Pomerania princes quarters Ramsay ranks retire Rhine river Robert Munro Ruthven Saxons sconce Scotland Scots Scottish officers Scottish regiments Scottish troops shot Sinclair Sir James Sir John Hepburn slain soldiers St Kilian storm strong Sweden Swedish army Swedish Intelligencer sword tavus thousand Tilly town valour Wallenstein whole wounded Würtzburg
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Sivu 14 - I was made stand from eleven before noone, to eight of the Clocke in the night Gentry, Armed with Corslet, Head-piece, Bracelets, being Iron to the teeth, in a hot summers day, till I was weary of my life, which ever after made me the more strict in punishing those under my Command.
Sivu 75 - Scottish soldiers' only answer was " New Brandenburg ! Remember New Brandenburg ! " The Scots Brigade still pressed forward, and Highlander and Lowlander, shoulder to shoulder, advanced like moving castles, the long pikes levelled in front, while the rear ranks of musketeers volleyed in security from behind. It was a dreadful retribution. Four colonels, thirty-six other officers, and about three thousand soldiers of the Imperial army were left dead in the streets. Fifty colours were taken, and an...
Sivu 257 - Pallas Armata; or, Militarie Instructions for the Learned : And all generous Spirits, who affect the Profession of Armes.
Sivu 62 - ASI sail'd past green Jura's isle, Among the waters lone, I heard a voice — a sweet low voice, Atween a sigh and moan : With ae babe at her bosom, and Another at her knee, A mother wail'd the bloody wars In Low Germanie.
Sivu 103 - Cannon, and consequently of the field, but the smoake being great, the dust being raised, we were as in a darke cloud, not seeing the halfe of our actions, much less discerning, either the way of our enemies, or yet the rest of our Briggads: whereupon, having a drummer by me, I caused him to beate the Scots march, till it cleared up, which recollected our friends unto us...
Sivu 63 - Germanic. 1 saw him when he sail'd away, And furrow'd far the brine ; And down his foes came to the shore, In many a glittering line : The war-steeds rush'd amang the waves, The guns came flashing free, But could nae keep my gallant love From Low Germanie. Oh say...
Sivu 259 - The Perfection of Military Discipline after the Newest Method, as Practised in England and Ireland, etc., or, the Industrious Souldiers Golden Treasury of Knowledge in the Art of making War.
Sivu 13 - ... related that when standing one day in a publie parade, surrounded by a number of glittering eavaliers and offieers of high military rank, he was aeeosted by a stranger, who, to win his favourable notiee, professed to have eome reeently from Seotland, where he had left his relations well, and eonelnded by naming several persons of high rank.
Sivu 207 - Wherein out of the truest and choysest Informations, are the famous actions of that warlike Prince [Gustavus Adolphus] historically led along. ...Now the third time, revised, corrected, and augmented.
Sivu 104 - that the Scottish regiments first practised firing in platoons, which amazed the Imperialists to such a degree that they hardly knew how to conduct themselves, "t The Scots Brigade was publicly thanked in presence of the whole army, and promised noble rewards, as we are told by Munro, who modestly adds — " The battaile thus happily wonne, his Majesty did principally under God ascribe the glory of the victory to the Sweds and Fynnes horsemen . . . yet it was the Scots Briggads fortune to have gotten...