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  • (Scots Greys) had been ordered up, and they preceded the advance of the

    The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919 S. J. Wilson

  • Some endeavoured to break out at other places, but General Wood, with Lord John Hay's regiment of _grey_ dragoons (Scots Greys) immediately advanced towards them, and, cantering up to the top of a rising ground, made them believe they had a larger force behind them, and stopped them on that side.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

  • Field-Cornet Van Zulch, who with Commandant Boshoff, took the officers to Machadodorp, and who is at present a fellow-prisoner, tells me that three officers -- Colonel Roberts, Lieutenants Davis and Lyall -- and 210 soldiers of the Lincolnshire Regiment were taken prisoners, and that four companies of the Scots Greys had early that morning escaped with two guns.

    On Commando Dietlof Van Warmelo 1919

  • They know, these brave soldiers of Napoleon -- who have fought and admired the brave foe -- that the 1st and 2nd Life Guards are decimated by now; that entire British and German regiments are cut up; that Picton is dead, the Scots Greys almost annihilated.

    The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

  • Life Guardsmen and Scots Greys under Lord Cochrane, and by this means the enemy's fire was somewhat held in check.

    For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War Lewis Hough 1899

  • This particular regiment was the Scots Greys, commanded by

    1914 John Denton Pinkstone French 1888

  • The British trumpets rang out the charge, and the Scots Greys and Inniskillings, who formed the first line of the Heavy Brigade, dashed at the enemy.

    Jack Archer 1867

  • The Enniskillens and Scots Greys clashed right on the flanks of the retreating cavalry, and cut them up terribly before they could get back to the Russian army, which appeared with a strong force of artillery on the opposite side of the valley.

    Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • Inniskillings and Scots Greys, were forming in line with as much care as if they were on parade.

    The Three Commanders William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • The 4th, 5th and 6TH Dragoon Guards along with The Scots Greys formed the victorious

    Army Rumour Service 2010

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