Excerpt from Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal, 1847, Vol. 2 Society. If we consider how many propositions it is open to any Fellow of the Society to make, and how few are made except throu h the Council, it would appfar that the general feeling is, that the letter of t a law respect ing medals only the expression of the spirit in which the Society desires that its business should be conducted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Colburn's United Service Magazine, and Naval and Military Journal, 1856, Vol. 2 The practice with us heretofore has been - thanks to the Germans and French - to spend a great deal of time in copying examples in pen-work, pencil-work, and brush-war - the method known as comb-work, and one of the greatest absurdities ever introduced from the continent, being ignored by the present generation, - while but little time has been given to the practical work of making sketches and plans in the field. Now, with all due deference to the skilful handlers of pen, pencil, and brush, we would reverse the thing, and occupy most of the pupils' time actually in the field in making original plans and sketches and if our pupils succeeded in making them correct, we mould not be very fastidious as to neatness and beauty of execution, our chief and indeed only object being utility. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Colburn's United Service Magazine, and Naval and Military Journal, 1853, Vol. 2 In 1847, some casual event, of so little note that not one in a thousand could now describe it, turned attention to our military con dition, when the most competent authorities pronounced us to be so totally unprepared, in comparison with the constant power of aggression posseaed by France, that, in case of hostilities, our very national existence would be in a state of imminent danger. The economists, however, snouted any idea of providing a remedy for this hazardous condition; not on the question of fact; u this they ventured very Blightly to touch; but upon the argument that the Franc neither had, nor (by implication, to make the reasoning sound) ever could have, any inclination or interest for to war; and that Pmutionary measures would require a considerable expenditure, Which it was not worth incurring to avoid the trifling risk of having a French army in possession of London. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal, 1844, Vol. 2 The French have, as yet, supplied us with no account upon which we dare to rely, as containing a correct representation of the occurrences of the campaign': finding they could not expect to regain, by their clever pens, the glory that we wrested from them with the sword, their military writers in general deemed it prudent to main silent, and leave the case in the hands of the compilers of such works as Les Victoires et Conquétes des Francais, and Vingt années de gloire oontre un seul rovers. Napoleon, however, tried his hand in manufac turing a Campagne de which ought, properly, in imitation of the German tale, to have been entitled, The Story without an end since, although, it proceeded very satisfactorily - like the reality through the operations of the 15th, l6th, 17th, and part of the 18th June, yet its conclusion sorely puzzled him. The General, to whom he dictated it, told me at St. Helena, that the Campagne Superbe of his master being unfinished, he had himself submitted to the ex-emperor, no less than six difi'erent modes of accounting for the unexpected and extraordinary termination of the battle of Waterloo, but each was rejected in succession! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Colburn's United Service Magazine, and Naval and Military Journal, 1866, Vol. 2 Valparaiso, the bombardment of, 278, Volunteer Gazette. 143, 147, 151, 157 4to, 624, 630 Review at Brighton. 116 Review at Wimbledon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal, 1851, Vol. 1 From the moment this change was effected in the military service of Europe, it became manifest that the doom of arbitrary power was sealed, though it was - and is still impossible, to foretell the date of its final overthrow, still the order of things which owed its existence to an nu reasoning army, must obviously pass more or less rapidly away, when that representative of the nation's energy and courage, assumes the right to exercise the privilege of thou ht. One of the most striking illustrations of this truth, contained in iistory, was supplied durin the last century by the armies of France, during the unha y quar be tween Great Britain and her North American colonies, w ich terminated on the founding of the United States. France, with apolicy which now appears to us short-sighted, but was then supposed to indicate consum mate prudence and sagacity, sent out a moderate force to coooperate with our revolted colonists. With the fortunes and issues of that war our readers are familiar, and they may have met also with historians, who have connected what was then accomplished beyond the Atlantic with what afterwards took place among our immediate neighbours. The French soldiers serving in America, when they asked themselves or were asked by others what was the principle for which they had drawn their swords, must have been conscious there was but one answer to be given, namely, that it was for popular liberty against power, and as it even tually turned out for a republic against a monarchy. Men easily iden tify themselves with the princi Is for which they contend, and almost necessarily believe that in all t e quarrels in which they engage, they are the defenders and upholders of the right. The French, therefore, in the course of the American war, having been made by accident the therapions of freedom, soon learned to be proud of the achievements in its defence. They talked to each other over their camp fires of what they had done for the re ublic, then rising in shadowy magnificence amid the mighty forests the New World, and though passionaw fond of their own country, thought of their return to its hereditary servi tude, not merely with reluctance but with indignation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Colburn's United Service Magazine, and Naval and Military Journal, 1853, Vol. 1 The fissistant Surgeon' s Story, by the Author of The Gap in istory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Colburn's United Service Magazine, and Naval and Military Journal, 1866, Vol. 1 Memorials of Service in India. From the Correspondence of the late Major Samuel Chartres Macpherson, c.b. Reviewed, 291. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Colburn's United Service Magazine, and Naval and Military Journal, 1867, Vol. 3 Under the Palms in Algeria and Tunis, by the Hon. Lewis Wing field, noticed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
