The United Service Journal, Część 1H. Colburn, 1837 |
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... course of service , receive no retiring allowance whatever ; and even the retiring allowance granted to the remainder in the shape of half - pay absolutely decreases in exact proportion to the extent , hardship , and danger of the ...
... course of service , receive no retiring allowance whatever ; and even the retiring allowance granted to the remainder in the shape of half - pay absolutely decreases in exact proportion to the extent , hardship , and danger of the ...
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... course of foreign service , from which the former has been comparatively exempt . Now , as all officers enter the Army pretty nearly at the same period of life , a more advanced age in almost every instance implies a greater length of ...
... course of foreign service , from which the former has been comparatively exempt . Now , as all officers enter the Army pretty nearly at the same period of life , a more advanced age in almost every instance implies a greater length of ...
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... course to the vacancy ; and this , in general , gives rise to more promotion than all other casualties ; but in the British Army , by a cruel economy , utterly unworthy of so great a nation , all vacancies thus caused are filled up by ...
... course to the vacancy ; and this , in general , gives rise to more promotion than all other casualties ; but in the British Army , by a cruel economy , utterly unworthy of so great a nation , all vacancies thus caused are filled up by ...
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... course will likely be as brief as his own . Such men stand little in the way of those who are really determined , and perhaps obliged , to make the Army their profession through life ; but what we deprecate as forming an almost ...
... course will likely be as brief as his own . Such men stand little in the way of those who are really determined , and perhaps obliged , to make the Army their profession through life ; but what we deprecate as forming an almost ...
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... course of a few years , their orphans in a state of destitution , or at best humble pensioners on the bounty of that state in whose service not only had their father's life been passed , but absolutely in many instances their own ...
... course of a few years , their orphans in a state of destitution , or at best humble pensioners on the bounty of that state in whose service not only had their father's life been passed , but absolutely in many instances their own ...
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