 | Officer of the army - Clans - 1818 - 420 pages
...consider,' that if he should be killed, King James's interest would be lost in Scotland. But no argument could dissuade him from engaging at the head of his...troops. General Mackay's army out-winged Dundee's near a quarter of a mile, which obliged the Clans to leave large intervals between each Clan ; and... | |
 | Scotland - 1820 - 152 pages
...consider that if he should be killed, King James' interest would be lost in Scotland: but no argument could dissuade him from engaging at the head of his...troops. General Mackay's army out-winged Dundee's near a quarter of a mile, which obliged the Clans to leave large intervals between each Clan, and by... | |
 | Scotland - 1820 - 424 pages
...consider that if he should be killed, King James' interest would be lost in Scotland: but no argument could dissuade him from engaging at the head of his...troops; General Mackay's army out-winged Dundee's near a quarter of a mile, which obliged the Clans to leave large intervals between each Clan, and by... | |
 | English literature - 1844 - 742 pages
...troops. Again, they desired him to consider, that should he be killed. King James's interest would he lost in .Scotland. But no argument would prevail with...engaging at the head of his troops. General Mackay's army out winged Dundee's nearly a quarter of a mile, which obliged the clans to le'ave large intervals between... | |
 | Scotland - 1845 - 1318 pages
...troops, and if he should be killed, King James's interest would be lost in Scotland. But no argument could dissuade him from engaging at the head of his troops. General M'Kay's army out-winged Dundee's near a quarter of a mile, which obliged the. clans to leave large... | |
 | Scotland - 1849 - 508 pages
...argument could dissuade him from engaging at the head of his troops. We are told by an eye-witness that " General Mackay's army outwinged Dundee's nearly a...clan, and by declining towards the wings, they wanted truopg to charge the centre where a detachment of Leslie's and Hastings' regiments were." It was with... | |
 | Bernard Burke - Great Britain - 1853 - 342 pages
...traditions are generally kept distinct. " General Mackay's army," says the old biographer, an officer in the army, " outwinged Dundee's nearly a quarter of a mile,...troops to charge the centre, where a detachment of Lesly and Hastings' English regiments were. The Highlanders threw away their plaids, haversacks, and... | |
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James's interest would be lost in Scotland. But no argument could dissuade him from engaging at the head of his troops. General Mackay's army out-winged Dundee's near a quarter of a mile, which obliged the Clans to leave large intervals between each Clan... 