Henry William Lumsden

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Henry William Lumsden Dictionary of National Biography… (1893)

According to the latter, the king called Sir John Hepburn [q.v.] and Lumsden to him before the assault on the town, and bade them remember their countrymen slain at New Brandenburg. ‘Lumsdell therefore with his regiment of English and Scots and Hebron with his High Dutchers press upon that sally-port, ever the enemy's bullets flying thick as hail. Lumsdell, with his drawn sword in his hand, cries, “Let's enter, my heart,” thrusting himself in among the thickest of them; his men follow as resolutely. ...
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