Half-pay Sentence Examples

But the War of Independence was practically at an end, and in 1783 he finally quitted active service, with the rank and half-pay of a lieutenant-colonel.

On returning to Paris he lived on his half-pay until 1815, when he received the favour of not being exiled like the other regicides.

After Waterloo he retired into England for a time, but soon returned, and was placed on half-pay.

In 1850 a half-pay officer, named Pate, assaulted the queen by striking her with a stick, and crushing her bonnet.

In 1783 he became lieutenant, and was discharged on half-pay.

Further scruples as'to the oath required on the receipt of his half-pay reduced him to serious pecuniary straits (1791), and he divided his time between the open air and the workhouse, where he developed the idea that he had a special divine commission, and wrote to the king and the parliament to that effect.

A charge of peculation, unproved, was made against him in connexion with this expedition and he was placed on half-pay.

This brochure brought him into bad odour at court, and he left the war office on half-pay, and was refused a command in the field at the outbreak of the Franco-German War.

At the peace of 1783 he was placed on half-pay; but, on the outbreak of the war of the French Revolution, he was appointed to the command of the 74-gun ship "Defence," under Lord Howe; and in her he had an honourable share in the battle on the 1st of June 1794.

For three months after his term of service he was to receive half-pay; pensions were promised; and, in short, everything was done to make the navy popular.

In 1814 he retired on half-pay, and devoted the remainder of his life to scientific research.

It is needless to trace the ordinary routine of his service step by step. The officers of the U.S.navy have one great advantage which British officers are without; when on shore they are not necessarily parted from the service, but are employed in their several ranks in the differentdockyards,escaping thus not only the private grievance and pecuniary difficulties of a very narrow half-pay, but also, what from a public point of view is much more important, the loss of professional aptitude, and of that skill which comes from unceasing practice.

Napier 's subsequent career was no less distinguished, but punctuated by spells of retirement on half-pay.