Crossword-Solution: BYNG 4 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Seeing that Generals Foy and Jerome Buonaparte were again massing their infantry for an attack on the position, Colonel Byng dispatched Corporal Brewster to the rear to hasten up the reserve ammunition.

Lordy, but they have all marched away--every man of them--from old Colonel Byng down to the drummer boys, and here am I a straggler--that's what I am, sergeant, a straggler! I'm here when I ought to be there.

One was George Byng, father of the first Lord Strafford, and ‘father’ of the House of Commons; the other Sir Robert Adair, who was Ambassador at Constantinople when Byron was there.

Frederick Byng, one of the Torrington branch of the Byngs, was chiefly famous for his sobriquet ‘The Poodle’; this he owed to no special merit of his own, but simply to the accident of his thick curly head of hair.

His studied decorum possibly provoked the playfulness of the young puppy; and amongst other attempts to disturb the Beau’s complacency, Master Byng ran a pin into the calf of that gentleman’s leg, and then he ran away.