 | John Home - 1802 - 456 oldal
...called the Lochaber Axe, which the town guard foldiers carry : But all of them, he added, would be ibon provided with firelocks, as the arms belonging to...Edinburgh had fallen into their hands. Sir John Cope •difinilTed the volunteer, with many compliments for bringing him fuch certain and accurate intelligence.... | |
 | James Johnstone Johnstone (chevalier de) - 1821 - 544 oldal
...full view of the camp of General Cope, the position soon be provided with firelocks, as the arms of the trained bands of Edinburgh had fallen into their hands. Sir John was thus pretty accurately informed as to the numbers of the enemy. On his trial, however, he says... | |
 | John Home - 1822 - 408 oldal
...of a scythe fastened to it, somewhat like the weapon called the Lochaber axe, which the town guard soldiers carry : But all of them, he added, would...bringing him such certain and accurate intelligence. At Dunbar some of the judges and men of the law came to the camp, resolving to continue with the army,... | |
 | John Home - 1822 - 466 oldal
...broad-swords, but French : that a company or two (about 100 men) had each of them in his hand the shaft of a pitch-fork, with the blade of a scythe fastened...like the weapon called the Lochaber axe, which the town guard soldiers carry : But all of them, he added, would be soon provided with firelocks, as the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1827 - 624 oldal
...pitchfork, with the blade of a scythe fastened to it, somewhat like the weapon called the Lochabar axe, which the town-guard soldiers carry: but all...bringing him such certain and accurate intelligence.' — vol. iii. pp. 75,76. Of the zealous services of the few but faithful volunteers who did leave Edinburgh,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1827 - 634 oldal
...broadswords, but French ; that a company or two (about 100 men) had each of them in his hand the shaft of a pitchfork, with the blade of a scythe fastened to it, somewhat like the weapon called the Lochabar axe, which the town-guard soldiers carry: but all of them, he added, would be soon provided... | |
 | John Struthers - 1828 - 676 oldal
...broadswords, but French ; that a company or two (about one hundred men) had each of them in his hand the shaft of a pitchfork, with the blade of a scythe fastened...like the weapon called the Lochaber axe, which the town guard soldiers carry ; but all of them, he added, would be soon provided with firelocks, as the... | |
 | John Struthers - 1828 - 660 oldal
...broadswords, but French ; that a company or two (about one hundred men) had each of them in his hand the shaft of a pitchfork, with the blade of a scythe fastened...like the weapon called the Lochaber axe, which the town guard soldiers carry ; but all of them, he added, would be soon provided with firelocks, as the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 394 oldal
...broadswords, but French; that a company or two (about 100 men), had each of them in his hand the shaft of a pitchfork, with the blade of a scythe fastened...hands. Sir John Cope dismissed the volunteer, with many complirnents for bringing him such certain and accurate intelligence."—Vol. iii. pp. 75, 76. Of the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 476 oldal
...broadswords, but French : that a company or two (about 1 00 men) had each of them in his hand the shaft of a pitchfork, with the blade 'of a scythe fastened...with firelocks, as the arms belonging to the trained band* of Edinburgh had fallen into their hands. Sir John Cope dismissed the volunteer, with many compliments... | |
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... of a scythe fastened to it, somewhat like the weapon called the Lochaber axe, which the town-guard soldiers carry; but all of them, he added, would be soon provided with firelocks, as the arms belonging to the Trained Bands of Edinburgh had fallen... 
