 | Army - 1837 - 100 pages
...Right Honorable GENERAL LORD HILL, Commanding-in- Chief. JOHN MACDONALD, Adjutant- General. PREFACE. THE character and credit of the British Army must...reflect on the perilous duties of the soldier and the sailor, — on their sufferings, — and on the sacrifice of valuable life, by which so many national... | |
 | Great Britain. Adjutant-General's Office, Richard Cannon - 1837 - 196 pages
...agriculture, manufactures, and commerce, and where these pursuits have, for so long a period, been undisturbed by the presence of war, which few other...reflect on the perilous duties of the soldier and the sailor, — on their sufferings, — and on the sacrifice of valuable life, by which so many national... | |
 | Richard Cannon - Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) - 1837 - 78 pages
...little or no interval of repose. In their tranquil enjoyment of the blessings which the PREFACE. Vii country derives from the industry and the enterprise...reflect on the perilous duties of the soldier and the sailor, — on their sufferings, — and on the sacrifice of valuable life, by which so many national... | |
 | Great Britain. Adjutant-General's Office, Richard Cannon - 1837 - 356 pages
...British Troops are exposed in every part of the globe, with little or no interval of repose. PREFACE. country derives from the industry and the enterprise...reflect on the perilous duties of the soldier and the sailor, — on their sufferings, — and on the sacrifice of valuable life, by which so many national... | |
 | Royal Scots greys - 1840 - 172 pages
...peace, the British Troops are exposed in every part of the globe, with little or no interval of repose. country derives from the industry and the enterprise...reflect on the perilous duties of the soldier and the sailor, — on their sufferings, — and on the sacrifice of valuable life, by which so many national... | |
 | Richard Cannon - Great Britain - 1841 - 210 pages
...agriculture, manufactures, and commerce, and where these pursuits have, for so long a period, been undisturbed by the presence of war, which few other...reflect on the perilous duties of the soldier and the sailor, — on their sufferings, — and on the sacrifice of valuable life, by which so many national... | |
 | Richard Cannon - 1841 - 104 pages
...agriculture, manufactures, and commerce, and where these pursuits have, for so long a period, been undisturbed by the presence of war, which few other...reflect on the perilous duties of the soldier and the sailor, — on their sufferings, — and on the sacrifice of valuable life, by which so many national... | |
 | Richard Cannon - 1844 - 78 pages
...British Troops are exposed in every part of the globe, with little or no interval of repose. PREFACE. Vll country derives from the industry and the enterprise...agriculturist and the trader, its happy inhabitants may he supposed not often to reflect on the perilous duties of the soldier and the sailor,—on their sufferings,—and... | |
 | Great Britain. Adjutant-General's Office, Richard Cannon - 1847 - 126 pages
...achievements of our armies are thus made known at the time of their occurrence, and receive the tribute a 2 of praise and admiration to which they are entitled....reflect on the perilous duties of the soldier and the sailor, — on their sufferings, — and on the sacrifice of valuable life, by which so many national... | |
 | Great Britain. Adjutant-General's Office, Richard Cannon - 1847 - 100 pages
...practice (which appears to have long prevailed in some of the Continental armies) for British Kegiments to keep regular records of their services and achievements....reflect on the perilous duties of the soldier and the sailor, — on their sufferings, — and on the sacrifice of valuable life, by which so many national... | |
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From the materials thus collected, the country will henceforth derive information as to the difficulties and privations which chequer the career of those who embrace the military profession. In Great Britain, where so large a number of persons are devoted... 
