Rifle Clubs and Volunteer CorpsRoutledge, 1859 - 110 páginas |
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Rifle Clubs and Volunteer Corps (Classic Reprint) William Howard Russell Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
Términos y frases comunes
accoutrements advantage ammunition arms Articles of War artillery badge barrel battalion bayonet best shot body bore breech-loading bullet Busk Carbine cartridge cavalry commanding officer corps of Yeomanry Cossack danger defence discipline distance dress drill duty effective members enemy Enfield rifle England English enrolled field fighting fire fleet Forage Cap force France French Gentlemen Government guns horse improvement infantry Inkerman invasion kepi KING WILLIAM STREET Lancaster Lieutenant London Majesty Majesty's marksmen ment military militia movement non-commissioned officers number of points obtained Odessa PATENT PORTMANTEAU possess practice present Price recommended regiment regular army regular troops regulations render respecting revolver RIFLE CLUBS Rifle Corps rifle-clubs riflemen round round shot Royal Engineers Russian Sarsaparilla shooting soldiers spirit STREET subscriptions superior sword target teer tion Trousers uniform Volunteer Corps Volunteer Rifle weapon Westley Richards Whitworth yards Yeomanry or Volunteers
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Página 87 - You cannot imagine, you say, that England will ever be ruined and conquered ; and for no other reason that I can find, but because it seems so very odd it should be ruined and conquered. Alas ! so reasoned, in their time, the Austrian, Russian, and Prussian Plymleys.
Página 88 - Old wheat and beans blazing for twenty miles round ; cart mares shot; sows of Lord Somerville's breed running wild over the country ; the minister of the parish wounded sorely in his hinder parts ; Mrs. Plymley in fits. All these scenes of war an Austrian or a Russian has seen three or four times over ; but it is now three centuries since an English pig has fallen in a fair battle upon English ground, or a farmhouse been rifled, or a clergyman's wife been subjected to any other proposals of love...
Página 88 - As for the spirit of the peasantry in making a gallant defence behind hedge-rows, and through plateracks and hen-coops, highly as I think of their bravery, I do not know any nation in Europe so likely to be struck with the panic as the English; and this from their total unacquaintance with the science of war.
Página 107 - AND be it further enacted, that in all cases of actual invasion or appearance of any enemy in force on the coast of Great Britain, or of rebellion or insurrection arising or existing within the same...