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" This kind of hoaxing may serve you as a specimen of the sea-jests practised upon us. A military man should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships... "
Letters from Flushing: containing an account of the expedition to Wlacheren ... - Page 22
by Officer of the Eighty-first Regiment - 1809 - 288 pages
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Letters from Flushing; containing an account of the expedition to Walcheren ...

Flushing - 1809 - 312 pages
...This kind of hoaxing may serve you as a specimen of the sea-jests practised upon us. A military man should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships,...have to serve with seamen. I should as soon expect a musket to swim, as expect a good understanding between seamen and soldiers. Early on the following...
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The Army & Sea Power: A Historical Outline

Robert Beverley Pargiter, Harold Griffin Eady - Great Britain - 1927 - 244 pages
...This kind of hoaxing may serve you as a specimen of the seajests practised upon us. A military man should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships,...have to serve with seamen. I should as soon expect a musket to swim, as expect a good understanding between seamen and soldiers." It must be added that...
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The Military Quotation Book: More Than 1,200 of the Best Quotations About ...

James Charlton - Reference - 2002 - 204 pages
...the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen. THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY A soldier should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships,...of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors. BERNARD MONTGOMERY No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into...
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Airwar: Theory and Practice

Phillip S. Meilinger - Air warfare - 2003 - 250 pages
...or green or brown or white, before they can be purple. But at some point, the broadening must occur. should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships,...of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors'. This attitude changed dramatically in World War II; it had to. Not because armies and navies...
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Out of the Blue

JoAnn Ross - Fiction - 2004 - 366 pages
...be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships," he told Lark. "Like ancient knights. He also said it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors." His mild tone didn't fool Lark; he was enjoying himself. It was the first time she'd seen...
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Life on the Ocean Wave

Sir James Eberle - Admirals - 2007 - 277 pages
...carrier HMS EAGLE. Chapter 9 Joint Services Staff College - and Aircraft Carrier HMS EAGLE "A soldier should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships...of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors." Field Marshal Lord Montgomery. After a spell of leave at home, I was off to join the Joint...
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