Now! Then! 2025! - Yorkshire On This Day

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I had a letter from my brother Edmond, captain in the Guards, that informed me that the King told him I had sent up a very good company of Grenadiers; for there was not a man in it but he was taller than the captain. He spoke this as a jest, because I was little, but my soldiers all very tall.

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I had a letter from my brother Edmond, captain in the Guards, that informed me that the King told him I had sent up a very good company of Grenadiers; for there was not a man in it but he was taller than the captain. He spoke this as a jest, because I was little, but my soldiers all very tall.

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• 51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding) Regiment of Foot (2) ·
• British Army (18) ·
• Humour (27) ·
• James II (20) ·
• Reresby, John (1634-89) (23), Thrybergh-born, politician and diarist, governor of York 1682-88, 2nd baronet ·
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