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Updated: June 19, 2025
I told him that after six weeks' service in the field I would feel competent to handle the regiment, but that I would not know how to equip it or how to get it into the first action; but that Wood was entirely competent at once to take command, and that if he would make Wood colonel I would accept the lieutenant-colonelcy.
We grow old, and I begin to think it time to retire and settle in life. I feel that my working days are nearly over." "The king, God bless him! sir, has much good service in your honor yet." "It may be so, Sergeant Dunham, especially if he should happen to have a spare lieutenant-colonelcy left." "The 55th will be honored the day that commission is given to Duncan of Lundie, sir."
In the Battle of Fontency, for instance, he was colonel in command of the famous Coldstream Guards, who covered themselves with glory; and shortly before embarking for America he was made major-general of the line. Braddock had won his promotion solely through gallantry and at a time when a lieutenant-colonelcy in this crack British regiment sold for £5000 Sterling.
"What, man! not even the love you bear that active little round-limbed, rosy-cheeked daughter that I have seen in the fort these last few days! Out upon you, Sergeant! old fellow as I am, I could almost love that little lassie myself, and send the lieutenant-colonelcy to the devil."
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