 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 410 pàgines
...as well as courage, received the unfortunate General with the well-known sarcasm, " That he believed he was- the first general in Europe who had brought...army, could not have remedied the disaster. There was never a victory more complete. Of the infantry, two thousand five hundred men, or thereabout, scarce... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1848 - 500 pàgines
...courage, received the unfortunate General with the well-known sarcasm, " That he believed he was ,1 the first general in Europe who had brought the first...army, could not have remedied the disaster. There was never a victory more complete. Of the infantry, two thousand five hundred men, or thereabout, scarce... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 476 pàgines
...as well as courage, received the unfortunate General with the well-known sarcasm, " That he believed he was the first general in Europe who had brought...army, could not have remedied the disaster. There was never a victory more complete. Of the infantry, two thousand five hundred men, or thereabout, scarce... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 462 pàgines
...as well as courage, received the unfortunate General with the well-known sarcasm, " That he believed he was the first general in Europe who had brought the first tidings of his own defeat." 1 But the presence of the general in person on the field, since there was not even the semblance of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 512 pàgines
...the dragoons were collected by Sir John Cope, with the assistance of the Earls of Home and London, and conducted in a very disreputable condition to...since there was not even the semblance of an army, 92 RESULT OF THE BATTLE OF PRESTON. could not have remedied the disaster. There was never a victory... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1854 - 512 pàgines
...cavaliers into a fortress which was probably on the eve of a seige. He therefore sent them word to be gone from the Castle-hill, or he would open his guns on...since there was not even the semblance of an army, 92 RESULT OF THE BATTLE OF PRESTON. • coujd not have remedied the disaster. There was nevel a victory... | |
 | William Balmbro'. Flower - 1854 - 336 pàgines
...and on reaching Berwick, was received by Lord Mark Ker, with the cutting sarcasm, that " he believed he was the first General in Europe, who had brought the first tidings of his own defeat." The baggage and military chest containing between £2000 and £3000, became the property of Charles,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 528 pàgines
...sarcasm, " That he believed that he was the first general in Europe who had brought the first tidmgs of his own defeat." But the presence of the General...since there was not even the semblance of an army, 92 RESULT Ol THE HATTI.f OF PRESTON. could not have remedied the disaster. There was nevel a victory... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1861 - 352 pàgines
...as well as courage, received the unfortunate General with the well-known sarcasm, " That he believed he was the first general in Europe who had brought...army, could not have remedied the disaster. There was never a victory more complete. Of the infantry, two thousand five hundred men, or thereabout, scarce... | |
 | John Watts De Peyster - 1869 - 538 pàgines
...arms, or ran ; and the witty Lord KERR observed of their commander, SIR JOHN COPE, " that he believed he was the first general in Europe who had brought the first tidings of his own defeat." About the same remark was addressed to the COUNT OF CLERMONT, Commander-in-Chief of the French, routed... | |
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Lauder to Coldstream, and from thence to Berwick. At the latter place, Lord Mark Ker, of the family of Lothian, a house which has long had hereditary fame for wit as well as courage, received the unfortunate General with the well-known sarcasm, " That... 
