 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 410 pàgines
...commonly form four deep, and these Highland, ers form the front of the four, the rest being LowJanders and arrant scum. When these battallions come within...time they come up to the people they attack. The sure viiy to demolish them is at three deep to lire by ranks diagonally to the centre where they come, the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 520 pàgines
...the body, or battallion, before them, becoming 12 or 14 deep by the time they come up to the peopk; they attack. The sure way to demolish them is at three deep to fite by ranks diagonally to the centre where they come, the rear rank first, and even that rank not... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 476 pàgines
...making a noise, and endeavouring to pearce the body, or battallion, before them, becoming 1 2 or 1 4 deep by the time they come up to the people they attack....and even that rank not to fire till they are within 1 0 or 12 paces ; but if the fire is given at a distance, you probably will be broke, for you never... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Byerley Thomson - 1845 - 434 pàgines
...noise and endeavouring to pearce the body, or battallions before them. Becoming twelve or fourteen deep by the time they come up to the people, they...and even that rank not to fire till they are within ten or twelve paces ; but if the fire is given at a distance you probably will be broke, for you never... | |
 | Bernard Burke - 1849 - 516 pàgines
...a noise, and endeavouring to pierce the body or battalions before them. Becoming twelve or fourteen deep by the time they come up to the people, they...and even that rank not to fire till they are within ten or twelve paces ; but if the fire is given at a distance, you probably will be broke, for you never... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1855 - 528 pàgines
...immediately thro down their firel<)cks and come down in a cluster, with their swords and targets waking a noise, and endeavouring to pearce the body, or battallion,...them is at three deep to fire by ranks diagonally tridge ; and if you give way, you may give' yourselves for dead, for they, [the Highlanders,] being... | |
 | David Wemyss - 1907 - 522 pàgines
...Cluster with their Swords and Targets making a Noise and Endeavouring to pearce the Body, or Battallions before them becoming 12 or 14 deep by the time they...people they attack. The sure way to demolish them is at 3 deep to fire by ranks diagonaly to the Centre where they come, the rear rank first, and even that... | |
 | Ernest Marsh Lloyd - 1908 - 322 pàgines
...making a noise and endeavouring to pierce the body or battalion before them, becoming twelve or fourteen deep by the time they come up to the people they attack....and even that rank not to fire till they are within ten or twelve paces ; but if the fire is given at a distance you will probably be broke, for you never... | |
 | Peter Anderson - 1920 - 216 pàgines
...noise and endeavouring to pierce the body or battalion before them, — becoming twelve or fourteen deep by the time they come up to the people they attack....and even that rank not to fire till they are within ten or twelve paces ; but if the fire is given at a distance, you probably will be broke, for you never... | |
 | Serge Soupel - 1996 - 260 pàgines
...Cluster with their Sxords &Targets making a Noise & Endeavouring to pearce the Body, or Battalions before them becoming 12 or 14 deep by the time they come up to the people they attack". Cité par K. Tomasson et F. Buist, Battles of the '45 (London: Pan, 1967) 105-06. 68. Partisans de... | |
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The sure way to demolish them is at three deep to fire by ranks diagonally to the centre where they come, the rear rank first, and even that rank not to fire till they are within 10 or 12 paces : but if the fire is given at a distance. 