half-pay

This was an old practice in the British army, where young men of the upper classes signed on as cadets or aides, seeking access to regular commissions from which they could retire at half-pay for life.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

Dagworthy by asking him if he commanded by virtue of a Maryland commission, because his royal commission had lapsed and he was not on the half-pay list; and the commission of a Virginia colonel was superior to that of a Maryland captain.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

This was an old practice in the British army, where young men of the upper classes signed on as cadets or aides, seeking access to regular commissions from which they could retire at half-pay for life.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

This was an old practice in the British army, where young men of the upper classes signed on as cadets or aides, seeking access to regular commissions from which they could retire at half-pay for life.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

Dagworthy by asking him if he commanded by virtue of a Maryland commission, because his royal commission had lapsed and he was not on the half-pay list; and the commission of a Virginia colonel was superior to that of a Maryland captain.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

This was an old practice in the British army, where young men of the upper classes signed on as cadets or aides, seeking access to regular commissions from which they could retire at half-pay for life.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

This half-pay version of himself, he who, for those who believed him and still believe, was by far the best of them, was a shadow upon the brilliance of the day.

Bernard-Henri Lévy: The Art of the Primary Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011

By her brother (Thiago Soares), a louche and drunken half-pay officer; by the wealthy Monsieur GM (Christopher Saunders), to whom he pimps her; and by Des Grieux himself.

Manon – review 2011

Dagworthy by asking him if he commanded by virtue of a Maryland commission, because his royal commission had lapsed and he was not on the half-pay list; and the commission of a Virginia colonel was superior to that of a Maryland captain.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

Dagworthy by asking him if he commanded by virtue of a Maryland commission, because his royal commission had lapsed and he was not on the half-pay list; and the commission of a Virginia colonel was superior to that of a Maryland captain.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011