| Albert Augustus Gore - Great Britain - 1879 - 212 pages
...and reached our ground about nine. As we marched through the countries of our allies, commissaries were appointed to furnish us with all manner of necessaries...arrived, and the soldiers had nothing to do but to pitch their tents, boil their kettles, and lie down to rest. Surely never was such a march carried... | |
| Henry Raleigh Knight - 1905 - 604 pages
...and reached our ground about nine. As we marched through the countries of our allies, Commissaries were appointed to furnish us with all manner of necessaries...arrived, and the soldiers had nothing to do but to pitch their tents, boil their kettles and lay down to rest. Surely never was such a march carried on... | |
| Christopher Thomas Atkinson - History - 1921 - 630 pages
...soldiers' tents1 and in Parker's words: As we marched through the countries of our allies commissaries were appointed to furnish us with all manner of necessaries...arrived and the soldiers had nothing to do but to pitch their tents, boil their kettles, and lie down to rest. Surely never was such a march carried... | |
| David G. Chandler, Ian Frederick William Beckett - History - 2003 - 518 pages
...the countties of our allies, commissaties were appointed to furnish us with all manner of necessaties for man and horse; these were brought to the ground before we artived, and the soldiers had nothing to do, but to pitch theit tents, boil theit kettles, and lie... | |
| Military art and science - 1878 - 528 pages
...and reached our ground about nine. As we marched through the countries of our allies, commissaries were appointed to furnish us with all manner of necessaries...arrived, and the soldiers had nothing to do but to pitch their tents, boil their kettles, and lie down to rest. Surely never was such a march carried... | |
| |