This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...adventurer.2 Nineteen wounded officers belonging to the Highland army were dragged from a wood in which they had sought refuge, and carried into the court-yard of Culloden House, where the greater number were shot, and the rest, who showed any symptoms of life, had their brains knocked out by the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...adventurer.2 Nineteen wounded officers belonging to the Highland army were dragged from a wood in which they had sought refuge, and carried into the court-yard of Culloden House, where the greater number were shot, and the rest, who showed any symptoms of life, had their brains knocked out by the soldiery. In one instance, a hut, which contained a number of wounded Highlanders, was set fire to by the soldiers, when not only was every individual who attempted to escape immediately bayoneted, but when the building was burnt to the ground, as many as thirty corpses were found blackened by the flames. The fate of such of the survivors of the battle of Culloden, who were dragged to prison, was scarcely less terrible. Great numbers were confined in the church and tolbooth of Inverness, where, deprived of clothes, and allowed only so small a quantity of meal daily as was scarcely sufficient to support life, they passed a miserable existence, till they were carried on board ship, in order to be sent to London and placed at the disposal of the Government. Their condition at sea was even worse than on land. They were thrust half naked info the holds of the different vessels, where they slept on the 1 Tales of a Grandfather, Toi. iii. p. 302. 8 Among these was a relation of Lord Forbes. For a curious anecdote connected with his execution, see Chevalier de Johnstone's Memoirs, p. 203. stones which formed the ballast; their sole allowance of drink being a bottle of cold water, and their amount of daily food being no more than about ten ounces of an inferior kind of oatmeal to each man. Even at this distance of time the heart almost sickens with the details of the horrors and privations to which these faithful and gallant people were subjected. Of a...
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Gilt lettering on backstrip. Bumped corners. Illustrated. Internally clean. Tight binding Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 700grams, ISBN:
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Fair. (1901) Acceptable. Hardcover blue boards with blind stamped decoration on front panel and gilt stamped on spine. Boards are worn with small tears, heavy rubbing and soiling, bumped corners. Front hinge is cracked, and slightly cracked at back hinge, but holding. Spine is slanted. Previous owner's bookplate at front pastedown. Used. Age-toning throughout. NO markings in text. Still in solid reading condition. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
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