The Life of Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore, K.B.J. Murray, 1834 |
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... detachment sailed with a favourable wind , and proceeded to the river Penobscot . The troops were landed on a woody and de- serted coast , and the General , after examining the country , selected the proper spot upon which to erect a ...
... detachment sailed with a favourable wind , and proceeded to the river Penobscot . The troops were landed on a woody and de- serted coast , and the General , after examining the country , selected the proper spot upon which to erect a ...
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... detachment marched back to the fort in good order . In a letter to his father , Moore wrote , I was upon picket the morning the rebels landed . I got some little credit , by chance , for my behaviour during the engagement . To tell you ...
... detachment marched back to the fort in good order . In a letter to his father , Moore wrote , I was upon picket the morning the rebels landed . I got some little credit , by chance , for my behaviour during the engagement . To tell you ...
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... detachment , the general learned from Moore the particulars that had occurred , and he expected that the Americans flushed with success would immediately storm the unfinished works , when the garri- son were in consternation by the ...
... detachment , the general learned from Moore the particulars that had occurred , and he expected that the Americans flushed with success would immediately storm the unfinished works , when the garri- son were in consternation by the ...
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... detachment must be destroyed . He sent for Major Koehler , who , having in- spected the works , was of the same opinion ; he then wrote to Sir David Dundas the state of things , and took up a secure position on 58 [ 1794 , LIFE OF SIR ...
... detachment must be destroyed . He sent for Major Koehler , who , having in- spected the works , was of the same opinion ; he then wrote to Sir David Dundas the state of things , and took up a secure position on 58 [ 1794 , LIFE OF SIR ...
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... detachment were entrenching themselves . The ascent to this was extremely difficult , and it could only be taken by storm , which would occasion a great loss of men , and the attack might fail . Were it to succeed , batteries might be ...
... detachment were entrenching themselves . The ascent to this was extremely difficult , and it could only be taken by storm , which would occasion a great loss of men , and the attack might fail . Were it to succeed , batteries might be ...
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afterwards alarm Anderson arms army arrived artillery assembled attack Bastia batteries bayonets besieged boats Brigands British camp cannon Captain Castlebar cavalry coast Colonel Moore column command commenced corps Corsicans detachment diers dragoons Duke of Hamilton Duke of York Dundas Egypt embarked enemy enemy's entrenchments escaped father favourable fire flank fleet force Fornelli forward France French frigates front garrison gave Gibraltar grenadiers ground guard guns hill horse hundred infantry inhabitants intelligence Ireland Irish island Lake landed letter Lord Cornwallis Lord Hood Lucia manded ment military Minorca Moore's Morne Fortuné negroes neral night officers orders Paoli party pickets reached rear rebels received redoubt regiment reinforcement repulsed reserve resolved sailed sent ship shore shot siege Sir Charles Stuart Sir Gilbert Elliot Sir James Sir Ralph Abercrombie soldiers soon storm tained thousand tion took town troops Viceroy Vizir Wexford wish wounded