History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, Nide 1Longmans, Green, 1889 |
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appointed April army arrived Artificers Artillery assault Assistant attack August Badajoz bastion battalion batteries battle besiegers Board Board of Ordnance breach bridge Brigade British Captain capture carried Castle Chief Engineer Ciudad Rodrigo Colonel column Company constructed Corps of Royal defence despatch ditch Duke duty enemy enemy's Engineer officers England escalade Establishment expedition fire flank fleet force fortifications fortress French front gabions garrison Gibraltar Governor ground guns island Jacob Richards Jones July killed King King's ladders land letter Lieut Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Raglan Lord Wellington Major March Master-General Matthew Dixon Michael Richards military Minorca morning mortars night opened operations Ordnance parapet party Patrick Mackellar rank rear received redoubts Regiment retired Richards river Royal Engineers Russians Sappers Second Lieutenants sent September shot side siege Sir John Burgoyne storm Sub-Engineer taken took town Train troops wall Warrant whilst William wounded yards
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Sivu 518 - His Majesty taking the same into consideration was pleased with the advice of his privy Council to approve of what is therein proposed, and...
Sivu 530 - Year of Our Reign. By the Command of His Royal Highness The Prince Regent in the Name and on the behalf of His Majesty BATHURST.
Sivu 181 - Lieutenant and you are your self to observe and follow such Orders and Instructions, as you shall from time to time receive from Me or...
Sivu 515 - The throne and room were lined with ebony, carved in a marvellous way. There were huge mirrors of all shapes and kinds, clocks, watches, musical boxes with puppets on them, magnificent china of every description, heaps and heaps of silks of all...
Sivu 98 - It is somewhat singular that this boy should be possessed of such uncommon quickness of sight as to see the enemy's shot almost immediately after they quitted the guns. He was not, however, the only one in the garrison possessing this qualification ; another boy, of about the same age, was as celebrated, if not his superior.
Sivu 267 - Fletcher, and the officers of the Royal Engineers, to draw your Lordship's attention to the ability and diligence with which they have executed the works by which these positions have been strengthened, to such a degree, as to render any attack upon that line occupied by the allied army very doubtful, if not entirely hopeless.
Sivu 486 - I am aware of no parallel to our series of mines in modern war : twenty-one shafts, aggregating 200 feet in depth, and 3,29 1 feet of gallery, have been executed. The enemy advanced twenty mines against the palaces and outposts : of these they exploded three which caused us loss of life, and two which did no injury ; seven have been blown in ; and out of seven others the enemy have been...
Sivu 67 - ANNE, BY THE GRACE OF GOD QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE AND IRELAND, DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, &c.
Sivu 531 - Archangel last past, and so to continue during our pleasure. And for so doing, this shall be as well unto you, as to the Auditors of the Exchequer, for allowing the same, and all other our officers and ministers whom it may concern, a full and sufficient warrant. Given at our Court at Whitehall, the 4th day of March, 1674-5. By his Majesty's command, J. WILLIAMSON.
Sivu 476 - Gate, and Martello towers, mounting a single gun, at such points as require some additional flanking fire to that given by the bastions themselves. The bastions are small, mounting generally three guns in each face, two in each flank, and one in embrasure at the salient. They are provided with masonry parapets about twelve feet in thickness, and have a relief of about sixteen feet above the plane of site.