The picture 'Ordered on Foreign Service' represents an officer who is ordered abroad taking leave of a lady, and no one can doubt that is the picture intended.
Sidenote: 1744] In the beginning of the following year another draft of men and horses was sent on foreign service.
In the beginning of 1743 the regiment furnished a draft of ten men and horses per troop to join the regiments of horse on foreign service.
In 1819 the regiment was sent on foreign serviceto the West Indies, where it was successively stationed in Barbadoes, Tobago, Demerara, St Vincent, and Grenada.
A short interval of peace soon recruited the “precious remnant” of the regiment, and so restored its strength as enabled it once more to go on foreign service.
Fourteen years out of the last sixteen they have spent on Foreign service; and with only eighteen months at home for their re-formation and their re-disciplining, appear in their present high state of regularity and order.
In this canton, which was favourable to foreign service, a martial spirit predominated, and the leading men knit their brows when they heard words of peace fitted to curb their warlike temper.
I naturally felt rather timid, as all young recruits must feel on entering so soon on foreign service as I then found myself obliged to do.
Then orders came for us to proceed to Portsmouth to embark on foreign service, our country being at the time at war with France and Spain.
Let us propose to the Five Cantons to allow the free preaching of the Word of the Lord, to renounce their wicked alliances, and to punish the abettors of foreign service.
The partisans of the monks, the friends of foreign service, the malcontents of every class, coalesced in pointing out Zwingle as the author of all the sufferings of the people.
The following return shows the number of men drafted from the 4th to the other battalions on foreign service:-- Key to table: A.
Here also armies have foregathered for foreign service, and have returned “from the Wars.
The soldier went on foreign service, and did not return (so the story goes) for some years.
That regiment now occupied those barracks preparatory to going on foreign service, but so numerous had been the changes during the interval that with difficulty was one man found who remembered it.
Returned to duty at Devonport, an intimation soon reached me that I was again to proceed on foreign service.
The authorities were pleased thereon to consider that episode equivalent to a tour of foreign service; my name was placed at the bottom of the roster, and so the next three years were spent at the favourite station of England.
But these citizens, though not often sent on foreign service, constituted a most formidable force when called upon.
But on foreign service in Sicily, these mercenaries often enabled Carthage to make conquest at the cost only of her money, without any waste of the blood of her own citizens.
Its service companies were at the Cape, but as the regiment had nearly completed its period of foreign serviceit was finally determined that it was not necessary that he should join it there.
After a stay in England of little more than six months Campbell's battalion was again sent on foreign service, an item of the fine army of forty thousand men under the command of the Earl of Chatham.
The muster-roll was swelled by the addition of more than thirty others from the rest of the allies, to whom the same principle of conscription applied, as also it did to the ships already engaged on foreign service.
The only time that I have used them in my Foreign Service experience I have had them typed up on the spot.
As a Foreign Service officer of the Department of State.
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