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" ... did, nor do I care three buttons what this or t'other person thinks he did, I shall limit all my descriptions to such events as immediately concerned the important personage most interested in this history. " Be it known, then, that I was one of a... "
Adventures in the Rifle Brigade in the Peninsula, France and the Netherlands ... - Page 49
by John Kincaid - 1830 - 351 pages
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United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal

1830 - 830 pages
...whole army drawn out on the plain, near Redinha, and instantly quarrelled with them on a large scale. " I was one of a crowd of skirmishers who were enabling...yards of one of their regiments in line, which opened euch a fire, that had I not, rifleman like, taken instant advantage of the cover of a good fir-tree,...
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The Edinburgh Literary Journal: Or, Weekly Register of Criticism ..., Volume 3

1830 - 456 pages
...following passage to the artist's attention, as affording a good hint for a striking situation : " Be it known, then, that I was one of a crowd of skirmishers who wi-п- enabling the French to carry the news of their own detent through a thick wood, at an infantry...
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Museum of Foreign Literature and Science, Volume 17

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1830 - 624 pages
...of service, and the faithful and witty history of some six years' honest and triumphant fighting. " I was one of a crowd of skirmishers who were enabling...through a thick wood at an infantry canter, when I iound myself all at once within a few yards of one of their regiments in line, which opened such a...
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Wellington's Men, Some Soldier Autobiographies: Kincaird's "Adventures in ...

William Henry Fitchett - 1900 - 440 pages
...conclude by one or both sides running away, and as it is nothing to me what this or t'other regiment did, nor do I care three buttons what this or t'other...in line, which opened such a fire that had I not, rifleman-like, taken instant advantage of the cover of a good fir-tree, my name would have unquestionably...
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