Diary of Colonel Bayly: 12th Regiment. 1796-1830Army and Navy Co-operative Society, 1896 - 282페이지 |
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12th Regiment affair afterwards Aleppi appeared arms army arrived Aston attack ball battalion battery bayonet beautiful boat body Bourbon brave British camp Captain cavalry Cochin Colonel command companies corps Court Martial danger detachment Dewan distance effect embarked encampment enemy enemy's ensued escaped Europeans exclaimed exertions fell fire flank fleet force Fort St French frigates gallant garrison Governor in Council grape shot guns head Henry Hervey Aston honourable horse hospital hundred immediately India Infantry island Isle land Lieut Lieut.-Colonel Madras Majesty's Mauritius Melville Castle miles military morning musketry Mysore native Nereide never night numerous o'clock observed officers party passed Penang Picton poor Port Louis possession proceeded Quilon Rajah Resident retired returned rock sailed scarcely scene Sepoys Seringapatam ship shore shot Sir George Barlow situation soldiers soon tion town Travancore troops vessel volleys voyage whole Woodhall wounded young
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198 페이지 - The immediate departure of Lieutenant- General Macdowall from Madras will prevent his pursuing the design of bringing Lieutenant-Colonel Munro, Quarter-Master-General, to trial, for disrespect to the Commander-in-chief, for disobedience of orders, and for contempt of military authority, in having resorted to the power of the Civil Government, in defiance of the judgment of the officer at the head of the army, who had placed him under arrest, on charges preferred against him by a number of officers...
202 페이지 - ... of station however exalted. The general order in question having been circulated under the signature of the Deputy Adjutant-General of the army, it must have been known to that officer, that, in giving currency to a paper of this offensive description, he was acting in direct violation of his duty to the Government. As no authority can justify the execution of an illegal act...
201 페이지 - Macdowall of the Command of the Army of Fort St. George not having been yet received, it becomes the duty of the Governor in Council...
210 페이지 - ChUtledroog troops to flight, and took two guns and both the colours, from one of the battalions : a memorable proof of the weakness of men acting in the worst of causes. That a body of British officers should deliberately disobey the orders of their government, seize the public treasure under their protection, abandon the post entrusted to their charge, march to join a party of men in open opposition to authority, plunder the dominions of a British ally, and finally bear arms against their country,...
201 페이지 - ... a manifest endeavour has been used to bring into degradation the supreme public authority, it is essential that the vindication should not be less signal than the offence, and that a memorable example should be given that proceedings subversive of established order can find no security under the sanction of rank, however high of station or however exalted.
199 페이지 - Munro, being destructive of subordination, subversive of military discipline, a violation of the sacred rights of the Commanderin-chief, and holding out a most dangerous example to the service...
203 페이지 - We, the undersigned officers of the honourable Company's service, do in the most solemn manner declare upon our word of honour as British officers, that we will obey the orders and support the authority of the honourable the Governor in Council of Fort St. George, agreeably to the tenor of our commissions, which we hold from that Government.
171 페이지 - February, 1809. I had the honour this morning to convey to you, by express, a small note in pencil for the information of the honourable the governor in council, by which you were made acquainted with • the satisfactory intelligence of the British flags being flying on every part of the Arambooly lines, as well as the commanding redoubts to the north and south.
210 페이지 - Mysore horse ou one occasion put the column of the Chittledroog troops to flight, and took two guns and both the colours from one of the battalions, a memorable proof of the weakness of men acting in the worst of causes.