 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1841 - 464 pàgines
...irresolute to fight. In vain did the Duke of Perth who was stationed there tell them that, if they behaved with their usual valour, they would make a right of the left, and he would call himself in future a Macdonald (3). In vain did Keppoch rush forward to the charge with a few of his kinsmen... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 634 pàgines
...irresolute to fight. In vain did the Duke of Perth, who was stationed there, tell them that, if they behaved with their usual valour, they would make a right of the left, and he would call himself in future a Macdonald.* In vain did Keppoch rush forward to the charge with a few of his kinsmen; the... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 458 pàgines
...irresolute to fight. In vain did the Duke of Perth, who was stationed there, tell them that, if they behaved with their usual valour, they would make a right of the left, and he would eall himself in future a Macdonald. f In vain did Keppoch rush forward to the charge with a few of... | |
 | Charles Alfred Maxwell - 1870 - 500 pàgines
...stood at the head of the Glengary regiment, hearing the murmurs of the Macdonalds, said, that if they behaved with their usual valour, they would make a right of the left, and that he would change his name to Macdonald ; but these proud clansmen lent a deaf ear to him. The second... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 252 pàgines
...irresolute to fight. In vain did the duke of Perth, who was stationed there, tell them that if they behaved with their usual valour they would make a right of the left, and he would call himself in future a Macdonald. In vain did Keppoch rush forward to the chargo with a few of his kinsmen ; the... | |
 | Alexander Hubert Alphons Conrady - 1898 - 96 pàgines
...irresolute to fight. In vain did the Duke of Perth, who was stationed there, tell them that, if they behaved with their usual valour, they would make a right of the left, and he would call himself in future a Macdonald. In vain did Keppoch rush forward to the charge with a few of his kinsmen; the... | |
 | Thomas Brumby Johnston, James Alexander Robertson - 1899 - 234 pàgines
...line.1 It is said that the Duke of Perth entreated them in vain to advance, and told them that if they behaved with their usual valour they would make a...right of the left, and he would call himself Macdonald ; and that Keppoch rushed forward calling on them to follow him, and exclaiming, " My God ! have the... | |
 | Peter Anderson - 1920 - 216 pàgines
...the battle of Bannockburn ; and it is added that the Duke of Perth tried to appease them by saying, that "if the MacDonalds behaved with their usual valour,...they would make a right of the left, and he would henceforth call himself a MacDonald." Mr. Chambers says — "But the insult was not to be expiated... | |
 | 1826 - 504 pàgines
...though the Duke of Perth (who was at the bead of theGlengary regiment; told them if they fought bravely, they would make a right of the left, and" he would call himself a Macdonald ! But in vain : the Macdonalds retreated without offering to use the claymore ; and one... | |
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... honour), which the Macdonalds had at the battles of Preston and Falkirk, and have had, they say, from time immemorial. The Duke of Perth, in the battle of Culloden, stood at the head of the Glengary regiment ; and hearing the men murmur (for they... 
