 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1836 - 530 páginas
...presumed to follow my comrades, eagle and all, but was stopped by the general, saying to me — ' You brave fellow, take that to the rear ; you have done enough till you get quit of it :' — which I was obliged to do, but with great reluctance. I took the eagle into Brussels amidst... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 532 páginas
...follow my comrades, eagle and all, but was stopped by the general, saying to me — * You brave- Mlow, take that to the rear ; you have done enough till you get quit of it :' — which I was obliged to do, b»t with great reluctance. I took the eagle into Brussels amidst... | |
 | 1897 - 1138 páginas
...attacked him with his bayonet. General Ponsonby, who had witnessed the scene, called out to Ewart, " My brave fellow, take that to the rear ; you have done enough till you get quit of it." Sergeant Ewart was promoted in the following February to be ensign in the 3rd Royal Veteran Battalion,... | |
 | 1897 - 666 páginas
...attacked him with his bayonet. General Ponsonby, who had witnessed the scene, called out to Ewart, " My brave fellow, take that to the rear ; you have done enough till yon get quit of it." Sergeant Ewart was promoted in the following February to be ensign in the 3rd... | |
 | Archibald M'Kay - 1858 - 324 páginas
...I presumed to follow my comrades, eagle and all, but was stopped by the general saying to me, 'You, brave fellow, take that to the rear ; you have done enough till you have got quit of it.' I retired to a height and stood there for upwards of an hour, which gave a general... | |
 | lord William Pitt Lennox - 1877 - 502 páginas
...I presumed to follow my comrades, eagle and all, but was stopped by the general saying to me, ' You brave fellow, take that to the rear ; you have done enough till you get quit of it.' Which I was obliged to do, but with great reluctance. I took the eagle into Brussels amidst the acclamations... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - 1879 - 336 páginas
...his strong left hand the coveted symbol from its custodian, he parried with the sword in his right the thrust aimed by the Frenchman at his groin, and...promoted in the following February to an ensigncy in the 3rd Royal Veteran Battalion, in which he served twenty-four years. On leaving the army he resided at... | |
 | 1887 - 650 páginas
...all, but was stopped by the General (General Ponsonby, afterwards killed), saying to me, " You bravu fellow, take that to the rear; you have done enough till you get quit of it," which I was obliged to do, but with great reluctance. I took the eagle into Brussels amidst the acclamation... | |
 | Edward Cotton - 1895 - 366 páginas
...through the head ; thus ended the contest. As I was about to follow my regiment, the general said, ' My brave fellow, take that to the rear ; you have done enough till you get quit ' of it.' I took the eagle to the ridge, and afterwards to Brussels." " The Greys, with the Highlanders, took... | |
 | Richard Lawson - 1898 - 180 páginas
...success. General Ponsonby, who had witnessed these desperate encounters, bidding the " brave fellow to the rear ; you have done enough till you get quit of it." Many a comrade envied the sergeant as he through the streets of Brussels proudly bore his hardly-earned... | |
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... firing at me, charged me with his bayonet, but he very soon lost the combat ; for I parried it, and cut him down through the head ; and that finished the contest for the eagle. 