 | Great Britain. Adjutant-General's Office, Richard Cannon - 1837 - 196 pages
...and succeeded at so few places."* On the following day conditions of capitulation were tendered. " Thus did four regiments, and one company " of artillery,...history. The " terms on which the fort was at last surrendered by a *' handful of men, so distressed, so shattered, and so " neglected, remain a lasting... | |
 | James Grant - Battles - 1873 - 598 pages
...comrades while in the castle of St. Philip. " Thus," says Beatson, in his " Naval and Military Memoirs," " did four regiments and one company of artillery maintain...in history. The terms on which the fort was at last surrendered by a handful of men, so distressed, so shattered, and neglected, remain a lasting monument... | |
 | Rowland Broughton-Mainwaring - 1889 - 494 pages
...his Nacctl and Jlilifary JTeiiioirs, has thus alluded to the conduct of the garrison of Minorca:— ' Thus did four regiments* and one company of artillery...history. The terms on which the ' fort was at last surrendered by a handfid of men, so ' distressed, so shattered, and so neglected, remain a lasting... | |
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Thus did four regiments, and one company " of artillery, maintain the fort against such numbers of " the enemy by sea and land for such a length of time " as can, perhaps, scarcely be paralleled in history. The " terms on which the fort was at last surrendered... 