 | Archibald Duncan - 1805 - 414 pages
...their fate was not discovered till called upon for the relief, when it came to their turn to mount again. Perhaps a more noble nor a more tragical scene...exhibited, than that of the march of the garrison of St. Philip's through the Spanish and French armies. It consisted of no more than 600 old decrepid soldiers,... | |
 | Military art and science - 1881 - 642 pages
...became their turn to mount again. Perhaps a more noble, or more tragical scene was never exhibited, than the march of the garrison of St. Philip through the Spanish and French armies. It consisted of no more than 600 old and decrepit soldiers, 200 seamen, 120 of the Royal Artillery,... | |
 | James Grant - 1882 - 784 pages
...became their turn to mount again. Perhaps a more noble or more tragical scene was never exhibited, than the march of the garrison of St. Philip through the Spanish and French armies. It consisted of no more than 600 old and decrepit soldiers, 200 seamen, 1 20 of the Royal Artillery,... | |
 | William Kingsford - Canada - 1892 - 538 pages
...stood sentry ; their fate was not discovered till called upon, when it came to their turn to mount again. Perhaps a more noble nor a more tragical scene...exhibited than that of the march of the garrison of St. Philipp's through the Spanish and French armies. It consisted of no more than 600 old decrepit soldiers,... | |
 | Robert Theodore Gunther, Amy Neville Rolfe Günther - Norfolk (England) - 1914 - 508 pages
...mount again. We give General Murray's own report of the march out after the surrender : " Perhaps [no] more noble, nor a more tragical scene, was ever exhibited, than that of the march of the garrison of St. Philip's through the Spanish and French armies. It consisted of no more than six hundred old, decrepid... | |
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... their fate was not discovered till called upon for the relief, when it came to their turn to mount again. Perhaps a more noble nor a more tragical scene was ever exhibited, than that of the march of the garrison of St. Philip's through the Spanish... 