History of the Queen's City of Edinburgh Rifle Volunteer Brigade: With Accounts of the City of Edinburgh and Mid-Lothian Rifle Association, the Scottish Twenty Club, EtcW. Blackwood, 1881 - 413 trang |
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1st Citizens 1st Highland Company 1st Lanark 1st Merchants 2d Highland Company 31st October afterwards Alexander Andrew Archibald arms artisan companies Average points obtained Braid Hills Bugler Captain Charles City of Edinburgh Colour-sergeant command competition connection contest Corporal Cowan David drill Duncan Edinburgh Rifle Volunteer efficients Ensign formed gentlemen George Henry Hills honour interest James John Lanark Lance-corporal large number Lieutenant-Colonel Liverpool Rifle London Scottish Lord Provost Macdonald Macrae Majesty in August Major marksmen match meeting Menzies military musketry instruction muster muster-roll National Rifle National Rifle Association occasion officers Officers:-Captain organisation pany past her Majesty period position Private prize promoted Queen's Brigade R. M. Ballantyne ranks regiment resigned retired Rifle Association Robert Robert Christison Robert Menzies Robertson Royal Scotland Scott Scottish Twenty Second Battalion second lieutenant Sergeant shooting shot Smith spirit stood on 31st succeeded success Thomas tion took Total strength trophy William Wimbledon
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Trang 111 - ... them : and I do faithfully promise to maintain, support, and defend to the utmost of my power, the succession of the crown, which succession, by an Act, intituled An Act for the further limitation of the crown, and better securing the rights and liberties of the subject...
Trang 111 - I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm : So help me God.
Trang 111 - I, AB, do sincerely promise and swear, That I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to His Majesty King George the Fourth, and will defend him to the utmost of my Power...
Trang 111 - I will do my utmost endeavour to disclose and make known to his majesty, his heirs and successors, all treasons and traitorous conspiracies which may be formed against him or them. And I do faithfully promise to maintain, support, and defend, to the utmost of my power, the succession of the crown, which succession, by an act entitled — ' An Act for the further limitation of the crown, and better securing the rights and liberties of the subject...
Trang 40 - Head, Brighton, Arundel, to Selsey Bill, near Portsmouth, and I say that excepting immediately under the fire of Dover Castle, there is not a spot on the coast on which infantry might not be thrown on shore at any time of tide, with any wind and in any weather...
Trang 22 - In this regiment, the officers cannot be permitted to have any indulgences or accommodation beyond the privates. They must therefore march with their whole baggage on their backs, of which the lieutenant-colonel shall set the example, never mounting his horse but for the purpose of command.
Trang 22 - They must therefore march with their whole baggage on their backs, of which the lieutenant-colonel shall set the example, never mounting his horse but for the purpose of command. In camp or quarters no distinction of tents or rooms will be permitted. Officers and privates must fare alike, but the officers will mess together, as it will give opportunities, not otherwise to be easily obtained, of conversing on many points of regimental duty.
Trang 306 - Keep your fours and march in order, Singing chorus altogether. Lift your heads and step out proudly, Look not down, or round about you. He that wears a kilt should be Erect and free as deer on heather. When he hears the bagpipe sound, His heart should bound like steed for battle. Think of them who went before us, Winning glory for the tartan...
Trang 310 - As it was in days of yore, So the story shall be ever : Where the doughtiest deeds are dared, Shall the Gael be forward pressing : Where the Highland broadsword waves, There shall graves be found the thickest. But when they have sheathed the sword, Then their glory is to succour ; Hearts that scorn the thought of fear Melt to tears at touch of pity ; \ 42nd', 78th, 79th, 93rd, 42nd (with 135 of the 79th), 31 Jan., 1874.
Trang 344 - He taught me how to drawe, how to laye my bodye in my bowe, and not to drawe wyth strength of armes, as other nacions do, but with strength of the bodye.