Curiosities of war and military studies1860 |
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Pàgina 9
... columns of the enemy came upon the advanced picquets covering the right of the position . These picquets behaved with admirable gallantry , defending the ground foot by foot against the overwhelming numbers of the enemy , until the 2nd ...
... columns of the enemy came upon the advanced picquets covering the right of the position . These picquets behaved with admirable gallantry , defending the ground foot by foot against the overwhelming numbers of the enemy , until the 2nd ...
Pàgina 10
... columns of infantry , had advanced numerous batteries of large calibre to the high ground to the left and front of the 2nd Division , while powerful columns of infantry attacked with great vigour the Brigade of Guards . " Additional ...
... columns of infantry , had advanced numerous batteries of large calibre to the high ground to the left and front of the 2nd Division , while powerful columns of infantry attacked with great vigour the Brigade of Guards . " Additional ...
Pàgina 11
... columns advanced in great force , requiring every effort of gallantry on the part of our troops to resist them . " At this time two battalions of French infantry , which had on the first notice been sent by General Bosquet , joined our ...
... columns advanced in great force , requiring every effort of gallantry on the part of our troops to resist them . " At this time two battalions of French infantry , which had on the first notice been sent by General Bosquet , joined our ...
Pàgina 16
... columns ; but judging from the num- bers that were seen in the plains after they had withdrawn in retreat , I am led to suppose that they could not have been less than sixty thousand men . Their loss was excessive , and it is calculated ...
... columns ; but judging from the num- bers that were seen in the plains after they had withdrawn in retreat , I am led to suppose that they could not have been less than sixty thousand men . Their loss was excessive , and it is calculated ...
Pàgina 93
... columns of the Times for the 19th of August , 1843 , from which the following particulars are extracted : " When the French were besieging Cadiz , during April , 1810 , great importance was at- tached by them to the reduction of fort ...
... columns of the Times for the 19th of August , 1843 , from which the following particulars are extracted : " When the French were besieging Cadiz , during April , 1810 , great importance was at- tached by them to the reduction of fort ...
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Curiosities of War and Military Studies: Anecdotal, Descriptive, and ... Thomas Carter Visualització completa - 1860 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 381 - Every subject's duty is the king's ; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience ; and dying so, death is to him advantage ; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained : and in him that escapes, it were not sin to think that, making God so free an offer, he let him outlive that day to see his greatness, and to teach others how they should prepare.
Pàgina 307 - From camp to camp through the foul womb of night The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch : Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames Each battle sees the other's umber'd face...
Pàgina 305 - I will ask him for my place again ; he shall tell me I am a drunkard ! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast! O strange! Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.
Pàgina 319 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility. But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Pàgina 304 - I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly ; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. — O, that men should put an enemy in their mouths, to steal away their brains ! that we should, with joy, revel, pleasure, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts ! lago.
Pàgina 319 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage ; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect ; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon ; let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height.
Pàgina 307 - Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur, and the poring dark, Fills the wide vessel of the universe. From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch...
Pàgina 366 - ... was something in his looks and voice and manner superadded, which eternally beckoned to the unfortunate to come and take shelter under him ; so that before...
Pàgina 363 - But he knows me not,' said he, a second time musing. ' Possibly he may my story,' added he. ' Pray tell the captain, I was the ensign at Breda whose wife was most unfortunately killed with a musketshot as she lay in my arms in my tent.
Pàgina 304 - O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!