 | 1863 - 518 pàgines
...The command, therefore, devolved on Las Torres, who had run before Peterborough at Valencia,* and who boasted that in six weeks he would plant the standard of Spain on the rock, and drive the heretics into the sea. This was the thirteenth siege of Gibraltar, and preparations... | |
 | John Frederick Smith - 1860 - 650 pàgines
...the Conde de las -Torres, who had formerly fled nimbly before the earl of Peterborough, but who. now boasted that in six weeks he would plant the standard :of Spain ion the rock of Gibraltar, and drive the heretics into the sea. The " heretics," however, had taken... | |
 | Frederick Sayer - 1862 - 558 pàgines
...people, were yielded up by the present King of Spain himself, and do indisputably belong to the Crovrn of Great Britain by the most solemn treaties. . ....Spaniards, he was a man of many words but few deeds. I CHAPTER X. THIRTEENTH SIEGE OF GIBRALTAR. THE hostile intentions of Spain were no sooner declared,... | |
 | Frederick Sayer - 1862 - 554 pàgines
...a war became inevitable. In the mean time Spain had been maturing her preparations for a campaign. fortress might easily be taken, but this opinion was...Mediterranean, and the fortress was in charge of General Caspar Clayton, in the absence of the governor, the aged Earl of Portmore. Early in January, 1727,... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1862 - 512 pàgines
...The command, therefore, devolved on Las Torres, who had run before Peterborough at Valencia,* and who boasted that in six weeks he would plant the standard of Spain on the rock, and drive the heretics into the sea. This was the thirteenth siege of Gibraltar, and preparations... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1863 - 552 pàgines
...The command, therefore, devolved on Las Torres, who had run before Peterborough at Valencias* and who boasted that in six weeks he would plant the standard of Spain on the rock, and drive the heretics into the sea. This was the thirteenth siege of Gibraltar, and preparations... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 660 pàgines
...the Conde de las Torres, who had formerly fled nimbly before the earl of Peterborough, but who now boasted that in six weeks he would plant the standard of Spain on the rock of Gibraltar, and drive the heretics into the sea. The " heretics," however, had taken... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1862 - 510 pàgines
...The command, therefore, devolved on Las Torres, who had run before Peterborough at Valencia,* and who boasted that in six weeks he would plant the standard of Spain on the rock, and drive the heretics into the sea. This was the thirteenth siege of Gibraltar, and preparations... | |
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Spain had been maturing her preparations for a campaign. fortress might easily be taken, but this opinion was not • shared by those who knew its strength. The Marquis de Villadarias, a brave and honest soldier, who in 1705 had been driven defeated from... 