History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the Year 1807 to the Year 1814, Tom 2Meline, Cans and Company and for G. Pratt, 1839 |
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Inne wydania - Wyświetl wszystko
Kluczowe wyrazy i wyrażenia
Abrantes Agueda Albuera Alemtejo allies Almeida Ampurdan Andalusia Aragon Areizaga arms arrived artillery attack Badajoz Ballesteros bank battalions batteries battle Beresford besiegers Blake bridge brigade British Cadiz Campo Verde castle Catalonia cavalry Celerico centre Ciudad Rodrigo Coimbra colonel column command commenced convoy defeated defence detachment dragoons duke Ebro enemy enemy's English errour Estramadura fight fire flank force fortress French army front frontier garrison Gerona Guadiana guard guns Hill hundred infantry junta latter Lerida light division Lisbon lord Wellington Marmont marshal Massena Meanwhile Mequinenza miles military militia Mondego Morena mountains movement night O'Donnel occupied officers operations partidas passed Peninsula Portugal Portuguese position province re-enforced reached rear regency regiments Regnier retired retreat river road sent Seville side siege Sierra sixth corps skirmish soldiers Soult Spain Spaniards Spanish squadrons succour Suchet Tagus Tarragona thousand tion Tortosa town troops Valencia valley Villa whole
Popularne fragmenty
Strona 311 - No sudden burst of undisciplined valour, no nervous enthusiasm weakened the stability of their order; their flashing eyes were bent on the dark columns in their front, their measured tread shook the ground, their dreadful volleys swept away the head of every formation, their deafening shouts overpowered the dissonant cries that broke from all parts of the tumultuous crowd, as slowly and with a horrid carnage it was pushed by the incessant vigour of the attack to the farthest edge of the hill.
Strona 189 - ... Meanwhile an affecting incident, contrasting strongly with the savage character of the preceding events, added to the interest of the day. A poor orphan Portuguese girl, about seventeen years of age, and very handsome, was seen coming down the mountain and driving an ass, loaded with all her property, through the midst of the French army. She had abandoned her dwelling in obedience to the proclamation, and now passed over the field of battle with a childish simplicity, totally unconscious of...
Strona 310 - Hawkshawe fell wounded, and the Fusilier battalions, struck by the iron tempest, reeled and staggered like sinking ships. But suddenly and sternly recovering, they closed on their terrible enemies, and then was seen with what a strength and majesty the British soldier fights...
Strona 578 - ... foremost being set the planks moved, and the unhappy soldiers, falling forward on the spikes, rolled down upon the ranks behind.
Strona 579 - ... dreadful situation, while the dead were lying in heaps and others continually falling, the wounded crawling about to get some shelter from the merciless...
Strona 579 - Macleod of the forty-third, a young man whose feeble body would have been quite unfit for war, if it had not been sustained by an unconquerable spirit, was killed.
Strona 310 - In vain did Soult, by voice and gesture, animate his Frenchmen ; in vain did the hardiest veterans, extricating themselves from the crowded columns, sacrifice their lives to gain time for the mass to open out on such a fair field ; in vain did the mass itself bear up, and fiercely striving, fire indiscriminately upon friends and foes, while the horsemen hovering on the flank threatened to charge the advancing line.
Strona 304 - ... slightest care of what was necessary to obtain success. The sieges carried on by the British in Spain were a succession of butcheries, because the commonest materials and the means necessary for their art were denied to the engineers.
Strona 165 - The stern countenance, robust frame, saturnine complexion, caustic speech, and austere demeanor of the first, promised little sympathy with the short thick figure, dark flashing eyes, quick movements, and fiery temper of the second ; nor did they often meet without a quarrel.
Strona 310 - Such a gallant line, issuing from the midst of the smoke, and rapidly separating itself from the confused and broken multitude, startled the enemy's masses, which were increasing and pressing onwards as to an assured victory ; they wavered, hesitated, and then vomiting forth a storm of fire, hastily endeavoured to enlarge their front, while a fearful discharge of grape from all their artillery whistled through the British ranks. Myers was killed...