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" Of the sailors, however, it would be injustice not to speak in the terms which their conduct merits. They were employed as gunners, and not only did they serve their guns with a quickness and precision which astonished... "
Making a Soldier - Página 22
por William Andrews Pew - 1917 - 220 páginas
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A Narrative of the Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New ...

George Robert Gleig - 1821 - 420 páginas
...was broken within half an hour after it was seriously engaged. Of the sailors, however, it wouH be injustice not to speak in the terms which their conduct...stood till some of them were actually bayoneted, with fusees in their hands ; nor was it till their leader was wounded and taken, and they saw themselves...
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A Narrative of the Campaigns of the British Army: At Washington, Baltimore ...

George Robert Gleig - 1821 - 450 páginas
...broken within half an hour after it was ,„ seriously engaged. Of the sailors, however, it would be injustice not to speak in the terms which their conduct...guns with a quickness and precision which astonished R their assailants, but they stood till some of them were actually bayonetted, with fuses in their...
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A Biographical Memoir of the Late Commodore Joshua Barney: From ...

Mary Barney - 1832 - 356 páginas
...was broken within half an hour after it was seriously engaged". Of the sailors, however, it would be injustice not to speak in the terms which their conduct...assailants, but they stood till some of them were actually bayonetted, with fusees in their hands ; nor was it till their leader was wounded, and they saw themselves...
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A Biographical Memoir of the Late Commodore Joshua Barney: From ...

Mary Barney - 1832 - 360 páginas
...was broken within half an hour after it was seriously engaged. Of the sailors, however, it would be injustice not to speak in the terms which their conduct merits. They were employed as gunnery, and not only did they serve their guns with a quickness and precision which astonished their...
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A Sketch of the Events which Preceded the Capture of Washington, by the ...

Edward Duncan Ingraham - 1849 - 86 páginas
...(') Gleig, Camp, at Wash., 125. sailors, however, it would be injustice not to speak in the highest terms which their conduct merits; they were employed...actually bayoneted, with fuses in their hands, nor was it until their leader was wounded and taken, and they saw themselves deserted on all sides by the soldiers,...
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1819-1880

John Thomas Scharf - 1879 - 878 páginas
...was broken within half an hour after it was seriously engaged. Of the sailors, however, it would be injustice not to speak in the terms which their conduct merits. They were employed as gunners, and 1 General Winder at the head of the 5th Regiment. THE SITUATION OF BLADENSRURG. 81 not only did they...
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Blue Jackets of 1812: A History of the Naval Battles of the Second War with ...

Willis John Abbot - 1887 - 436 páginas
...themselves. Mr. Gleig, a subaltern in the attacking army, writes, "Of the sailors, however, it would be injustice not to speak in the terms which their conduct...assailants, but they stood till some of them were actually bayonneted with fuses in their hands ; nor was it till their leader was wounded and taken, and they...
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History of the United States of America During the Second ..., Volumen8

Henry Adams - 1890 - 454 páginas
...fired down upon the sailors. The British themselves were most outspoken in praise of Barney's men. " Not only did they serve their guns with a quickness and precision that astonished their assailants," said the Subaltern, " but they stood till some of them were actually...
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The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Times to the Present, Volumen6

Sir William Laird Clowes, Sir Clements Robert Markham, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Herbert Wrigley Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Leonard George Carr Laughton - 1901 - 648 páginas
...British officers, writing afterwards of the battle, spoke with the utmost admiration of Barney's men. " Not only did they serve their guns with a quickness and precision that astonished their assailants, but they stood till some of them were actually bayoneted with fuses...
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Baltimore: History

Clayton Colman Hall - 1912 - 766 páginas
...Commodore Barney, no troops could behave worse than they did ... Of the sailors, however, it would be injustice not to speak in the terms which their conduct...which astonished their assailants, but they stood till * Gleig, British in America, pp. 125, 152. * Gleig, British in America, pp. 125, 152. some of them...
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