Nowadays the militia is a chartered and approved vestibule to the regular army: and it is quite the thing for a youngster to go straight from the Outlandshire Rurals into the Grenadier Guards or the Blues.
Three hours later the comrades had ceased for the time to be Light Dragoons, and were acting members of the Grenadier Company of the Ross-shire Buffs.
Such is the fate of bombardier-grenadier Mathouillet.
The bombardier-grenadier has a gentle, beardless face, which for many weeks must have expressed great suffering, and, which is now beginning to show a little satisfaction.
It became the property of the Trotters, an ancient Berwickshire family, about 1641, and now belongs to Colonel Trotter of the Grenadier Guards.
After many delays by rough water, Wilkinson's troops were assembled atGrenadier Island towards the end of October.
In peril of his life, wandering about in the vineyards and woods, he concealed himself for some time in the vicinity of Toulon; to an old grenadier he owed his rescue from death by hunger.
A grenadier was walking up and down, with his musket on his shoulder, not far off.
The band of the Grenadier Guards, under Mr. Dan Godfrey, played a selection of music as the vessel steamed down the Estuary Channel.
Just then Old Hans the Grenadier stood by Viggo's side.
One winter morning Hans the Grenadier and some of the farm hands were going to the woods to haul timber with seven horses.
Hans the Grenadier waded in front, and the snow reached to his knees; then came the horses and the boys, one after the other, and at last Viggo.
When the Grenadier pulled off the boy's trousers they could stand by themselves on the floor; they were frozen stiff.
The seven horses went in a line, one after the other, and Hans the Grenadier and Viggo and Allarm walked behind the last one.
The servants on the farm called the old Grenadier "Hans the Watchdog," for they said when he talked to anyone it sounded like a dog barking, and he looked as if he were ready to bite.
When he reached the cottage of Hans the Grenadier the old soldier was just standing in the open doorway.
Hans the Grenadier was six feet two, and a little more.
The Grenadier and Scots Guards were all on their knees as we arrived, and the bright green and gold vestments of the priest were relieved very vividly in the sunshine against the darker green background of the forest beyond.
He lost all his dearest friends in the Grenadier Guards, and he says England little knows how near she was to a great disaster when the enemy surprised us on that terrible Friday.
In the spring of 1779, the grenadier company, commanded by Captain Ludovick Colquhoun of Luss, and the light company by Captain Campbell of Bulnabie, were sent to New York, and joined the army immediately before the siege of Charleston.
This was one of the most closely contested battles of the Revolution, in which the grenadier company was in the thickest and severest of the fight.
The three Highland battalions were first landed on Staten Island, and immediately a grenadier battalion was formed by Major Charles Stuart.
A man of the Grenadier company of the 19th Regiment had a leg smashed by round shot.
A case is recorded, where a grenadier in Algeria was wounded in five places, all wounds of entrance, by one ball.
Both battles were fair fights; neither was a surprise; yet the stubborn valor of the red-coated grenadier and the headlong courage of the kilted Scot proved of less than no avail.
One might as well try to keep a grenadierfrom a wine-bottle.
Out of the door of the house there stepped a tall, flaxen-haired man, such a figure as one would choose for the flank of a Grenadier company.
I remember an old Grenadier of the Guard lying at the side of the road with his broken leg doubled at a right angle.
The Grenadier and Scots Guards had for days been holding the line with dogged pluck, and now had withdrawn from the trenches for a brief respite from their most arduous duties.
The General posted me to the 20th Brigade--a noble appointment indeed; for such troops as the Grenadier Guards, Scots Guards, Gordon Highlanders and Border Regiment were good enough for any man.
Here sleeps in peace a Hampshire Grenadier Who caught his death by drinking cold small Beer; Soldiers be wise from his untimely fall And when ye’re hot drink Strong, or none at all.
Roguet had set the lugubrious example of threatening with death any French grenadier who should bring him a Prussian prisoner.
The brave grenadier replied, with the high spirit of a French soldier, ‘Il est partout.
During a hot action between the French and the allied armies, in which the former were defeated, a French grenadier was taken prisoner by an officer of the Iniskilling [Enniskillin] dragoons.
Wedell had arrived with a grenadier battalion and some horse for escort; had picked up 150 Russian prisoners by the way.
The grenadier also assured me that the only expense his journey on foot to see his family had cost him, was about twenty-five roubles; and those were spent between St. Petersburg and Ecatherineburg.
Napoleon, in testimony of his merits, gave him the title of Premier Grenadier de France (First Grenadier of France), which was the only title he would ever bear.
The raider, returning to the Cape Colony with an escort of one hundred men, came into contact near Hanover with the blockhouses held by the Grenadier Guards on the Naauwpoort-De Aar line of railway.
The Grenadier Guards Hospital is further down the row on the same side.
