 An entire body of the rebels marched off the field in order, with their pipes playing, and the pretender's standard displayed ; the rest were routed with great slaughter ; and their prince was with reluctance prevailed upon to retire. In less than thirty...  National hymns, how they are written - Page 16by Richard Grant White - 1861Full view - About this book
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 572 pages
...rest were routed with great slaughter ; and their prince was with reluctance prevailed upon to retire. In less than thirty minutes they were totally defeated,...to the undistinguishing vengeance of the victors. Twelve hundred rebels were slain or wounded on the field, and in the pursuit. The earl of Kihnavnock... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1810 - 576 pages
...rest were routed with great slaughter ; and their prince was with reluctance prevailed upon to retire. In less than thirty minutes they were totally defeated,...to the undistinguishing vengeance of the victors. Twelve hundred rebels were slain or wounded on the field, and in the pursuit. The earl of Kilmarnock... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1827 - 468 pages
...rest were routed with great slaughter ; and their prince was with reluctance prevailed upon to retire. In less than thirty minutes they were totally defeated,...to the undistinguishing vengeance of the victors. Twelve hundred rebels were slain or wounded on the field, and in the pursuit. The earl of Kilmarnock... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1828 - 396 pages
...cavalry, and the road, as far as Inverness, was strewed with dead bodies. A great number of people also, who, from motives of curiosity had come to see the...to the undistinguishing vengeance of the victors. The most shocking barbarities were committed with impunity by the soldiery, and the glory which the... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1836 - 840 pages
...rest were routed with great slaughter, and their prince was with reluctance prevailed on to retire : in less than thirty minutes they were totally defeated,...sacrificed to the undistinguishing vengeance of the victors : 1200 rebels were slain or wounded on the field and in the pursuit : the earl of Kilmarnock was taken... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - World history - 1843 - 776 pages
...covered with the slain. The road, as far as Inverness, was strown with dead bodies ; and a considerable number of people, who from motives of curiosity had...to the undistinguishing vengeance of the victors. Twelve hundred Jacobites were slain or wounded on the field and in the pursuit. Theearl of Kilmarnock... | |
 | Thomas Stephen - Scotland - 1845 - 698 pages
...with their slain. THE ROAD, AS FAR as Inverness, was covered with dead bodies ; and, says Smollett, " a great number of people, who, from motives of curiosity,...to the undistinguishing vengeance of the victors. . . • The glory of the victory was sullied by the barbarity of the soldiers. They had been provoked... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1848 - 568 pages
...rest were routed with great slaughter ; and their prince was with reluctance prevailed upon to retire. In less than thirty minutes they were totally defeated,...to the undistinguishing vengeance of the victors. Twelve hundred rebels were slain or wounded on the field, and in the pursuit. The Earl of Kilmarnock... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1848 - 566 pages
...rest were routed with great slaughter ; and their prince was with reluctance prevailed upon to retire. In less than thirty minutes they were totally defeated,...to the undistinguishing vengeance of the victors. Twelve hundred rebels were slain or wounded on the field, and in the pursuit. The Earl of Kilmarnock... | |
 | Richard Grant White - National songs - 1862 - 194 pages
...Coldstream on the Tweed. All the infantry were either killed or taken; and their colors, at tillery, tents, baggage and military chest fell into the hands...should remember this, and lay the lesson well to heart. Yet like in their essential features as these battles of the last British and the first American rebellion... | |
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