Crossword-Solution: BATTIER 7 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Battier upon Curran, which "commemorates in a small compass two of his most striking peculiarities, namely, his very unprepossessing personal appearance, and his great success, notwithstanding, in pursuits of gallantry...: "'For though his monkey face might fail to woo her, Yet, ah! his monkey tricks would quite undo her.'"] [Footnote 2: In the spurious letters of Æschines (Letter x.) is a passage which explains the allusion.

Battier, who seems to have been ignorant of the peculiar arrangement they had established in opposition to the rules and policy of the service, had obtained from the Duke of York a cornetcy in the regiment, but not having submitted himself to the examination referred to, or possibly not answering to the exclusive requirements of the regiment, was forthwith sent to Coventry by his courteous brother officers.

Not only had he been out himself, but, in writing to Lord Londonderry on the occasion of the duel between the marquess and Ensign Battier in 1824, he had gone so far as to state that he considered the probability of the Hussars having to fight a duel or two a matter of no consequence.