 | John Lingard - Great Britain - 1826 - 420 pages
...the rank of lieutenant' general, and appointed to organize and discipline the new parlia- fc mentary levies. He hesitated to accept the commission, and...army extorted from him an answer, that he could not in honour quit his command without the royal permission. Aware of the consequences, he administered... | |
 | John Lingard - Great Britain - 1826 - 420 pages
...to the rank of lieutenant' general, and appointed to organize and discipline the new parliamentary levies. He hesitated to accept the commission, and...army extorted from him an answer, that he could not in honour quit his command without the royal permission. Aware of the consequences, he administered... | |
 | John Lingard - Great Britain - 1827 - 556 pages
...raised to the rank of lieutenant-general, and appointed to organize and discipline the new parliamentary levies. He hesitated to accept the commission, and...army extorted from him an answer, that he coul'd not in honour quit his command without the royal permission. Aware of the consequences, he administered... | |
 | John Lingard - Great Britain - 1840 - 482 pages
...lieulenanlgcneral, and appointed to organize and discipline the new parliamentary levies. He hesitated lo accept the commission, and pleaded in excuse of his delay the necessity of suprinlending the construction of some new fortifications : but a per;mptory order to join Clarendon,... | |
 | John Lingard - 1847 - 450 pages
...raised to the rank of lieutenant-general, and appointed to organize and discipline the new parliamentary levies. He hesitated to accept the commission, and...army extorted from him an answer, that he could not in honour quit his command without the royal permission. Aware of the consequences, he administered... | |
 | John Lingard - 1854 - 330 pages
...distinguished merit, was raised by the parliament to the rank of lieutenantgeneral, and appointed to organize and discipline the new levies. He hesitated to accept...army extorted from him an answer, that he could not in honour quit his command without the royal permission. Aware of the consequences, he administered... | |
 | John Lingard - Great Britain - 1855 - 464 pages
...raised to the rank of lieutenant-general, and appointed to organize and discipline the new parliamentary levies. He hesitated to accept the commission, and...army extorted from him an answer, that he could not in honour quit his command without the royal permission. Aware of the consequences, he administered... | |
 | Dudley George C. Elwes - 1876 - 450 pages
...Portsmouth, an officer of distinguished merit, was raised by the Parliament to the rank of Lieut.iGeneral, and appointed toorganize and discipline the new levies....the commission, and pleaded in excuse of his delay trie necessity of superintending the construction o¡ some new fortifications ; but a peremptory order... | |
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and appointed toorganize and discipline the new levies. He hesitated to accept the commission, and pleaded in excuse of his delay the necessity of superintending the construction of some new fortifications ; but a peremptory order to join the army extorted... 