 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1811 - 568 páginas
...attempted to snatch it from his head and substitute his own : during this contest a shower of musket balls rendered the horses wild, and they flew apart....that the enemy directed their fire at the English oflicer on account of his casque and plume ; I was appointed by you to protect him, I knew you had... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1811 - 562 páginas
...attempted to snatch it from his head and substitute liis own : during this contest a shower of musket balls rendered the horses wild, and they flew apart. When the Cossaque was afterwards asked by the Attarnati, with feigned anger, for his own explanation of such disrespectful conduct, he replied, "... | |
 | Alexis Eustaphieve - 1813 - 204 páginas
...this contest a shower of musquet balls rendered the horses wild, and they flew apart. When the Cozak was afterwards asked by the Attaman, with feigned...to protect him — I knew you had marched with many Cozaks, but only one stranger ; it was therefore my duty to avert mischief from him by attracting it... | |
 | Soldier - 1824 - 518 páginas
...cap. When the Cossack was afterwards reproved by the Hetman, with feigned anger, for such disrespect, he replied, — " I saw that the enemy directed their...plume,— I was appointed by you to protect £ him, and therefore did my duty." BATTLE OF AX.BUERA, 1811. Bravery of Ensigns THOMAS and WALSH, 3rd Regiment... | |
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... balls rendered the horses wild, and they flew apart. When the Cossaque was afterwards asked by the Attaman, with feigned anger, for his own explanation of such disrespectful conduct ; — he replied, " I saw that the enemy directed their fire at the... 