A young Gentleman of respectability can be introduced to an Ensigncy in the Militia, direct,” &c.
In a few weeks an ensigncy dropped in, and I got it.
So an ensigncy was procured, and John a Cleeve shipped from Cork to Halifax, to fight the French in America.
He had rather have seen my head hewn off than an ensigncypromised me: for he had thought to inherit my fine horses.
Yet was I a terrible young fool so to play the lord: for had I dealt otherwise and bestowed the money I so uselessly did hang upon my body in proper ways, I should have soon gained my ensigncy and also not have made so many enemies.
By the way also he told me that my bride at his departure was expecting child-bed, and had been well entreated by her parents and kinsfolk, and furthermore that the colonel still kept the ensigncy for me.
At the age of eighteen, after he had gone through a course of French military instruction, Arthur Wellesley was gazetted to an ensigncy in the 73rd regiment.
Before he finished his twelfth year, he was appointed to an ensigncy in the 22nd regiment of foot; and it is a remarkable fact, that his conquest of Scinde was mainly effected by the instrumentality of that regiment.
Lord Lake rewarded his daring with an ensigncyin the 65th Foot.
The first was produced by pleasure at hearing that her son had got an ensigncy in the 60th, or Royal Americans; and the last was a tribute paid to nature; a mother's fears at consigning an only boy to the profession of arms.
My father died a lieutenant-colonel when I was a school-boy; I owed my ensigncy to my uncle Sir Hugh, the father of the present Sir Harry Willoughby; after that I owed each step to hard and long service.
Obtained his ensigncythrough the interest of the Marquis of Ormonde.
Ewart was rewarded with an ensigncy in the 5th Royal Veteran Battalion, 22nd Feb.
Recovered from his wounds, and was rewarded with an ensigncy in the 42nd Highlanders.
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