The Battle of Waterloo: Containing the Accounts Published by Authority, British and Foreign, and Other Relative Documents, with Circumstantial Details, Previous and After the Battle, from a Variety of Authentic and Original Sources : to which is Added an Alphabetical List of the Officers Killed and Wounded, from 15th to 26th June, 1815, and the Total Loss of Each RegimentJ. Booth, 1815 - 98 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα xxiii
... fire of the British artillery . Numbers of wounded French officers crawled in here the night after the battle , and on the morning of the 19th it was filled with the dead and dying . The little cottage , fig . 2 , Plate 1 , on the ...
... fire of the British artillery . Numbers of wounded French officers crawled in here the night after the battle , and on the morning of the 19th it was filled with the dead and dying . The little cottage , fig . 2 , Plate 1 , on the ...
Σελίδα xxiv
... fire . ( Vide letter from an officer in the Guards . ) Every tree in the wood of Hougoumont is pierced with cannon - balls - in one alone , I counted the holes , where upwards of twenty had lodged : but the strokes which were fatal to ...
... fire . ( Vide letter from an officer in the Guards . ) Every tree in the wood of Hougoumont is pierced with cannon - balls - in one alone , I counted the holes , where upwards of twenty had lodged : but the strokes which were fatal to ...
Σελίδα xxix
... fire , in the most conspicuous position , he stood reconnoitring with his glass , watching the enemy's manœuvres , and issuing orders with the most intrepid coolness , while balls and shells showered around him , and his Staff Officers ...
... fire , in the most conspicuous position , he stood reconnoitring with his glass , watching the enemy's manœuvres , and issuing orders with the most intrepid coolness , while balls and shells showered around him , and his Staff Officers ...
Σελίδα xxx
... fire ; and when one of the hottest charges was made by the Enemy , he threw himself into the hollow square that was charged . He was once on the point of being taken prisoner by a party of cavalry ; and at one time , perceiving a part ...
... fire ; and when one of the hottest charges was made by the Enemy , he threw himself into the hollow square that was charged . He was once on the point of being taken prisoner by a party of cavalry ; and at one time , perceiving a part ...
Σελίδα xxxiv
... fire . In the march , owing either to their own superior quickness , or to the want of ardour in the Belgians , the latter were left behind ; and in a field of high standing corn , a column of French Lan- cers advanced upon them . Col ...
... fire . In the march , owing either to their own superior quickness , or to the want of ardour in the Belgians , the latter were left behind ; and in a field of high standing corn , a column of French Lan- cers advanced upon them . Col ...
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Σελίδα 92 - Waterloo, has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty...
Σελίδα 53 - A victim to the factions which distract my country, and to the enmity of the greatest powers of Europe, I have terminated my political career, and I come, like Themistocles, to throw myself upon the hospitality of the British people.
Σελίδα 52 - My political life is terminated, and I proclaim my son under the title of Napoleon II., Emperor of the French.
Σελίδα 8 - Sainte, as the detachment of the light battalion of the legion which occupied it had expended all its ammunition, and the enemy occupied the only communication there was with them. The enemy repeatedly charged our infantry with his cavalry, but these attacks were uniformly unsuccessful, and they afforded opportunity to our cavalry to charge ; in one of which, Lord E.
Σελίδα 65 - ... and it was utterly impossible to rally a single corps. The enemy, who perceived this astonishing confusion, immediately attacked with their cavalry, and increased the disorder, and such was the confusion, owing to night coming on, that it was impossible to rally the troops, and point out to them their error. Thus a battle terminated, a day of false manoeuvres rectified, the greatest success ensured for the next day, — all was lost by a moment of panic terror.
Σελίδα 18 - Prussian columns, so that only two brigades of the 4th corps had arrived at the covered position which was assigned to them. The decisive moment was come ; there was not an instant to be lost. The generals did not suffer it to escape. They resolved immediately to begin the attack with the troops which they had at hand.
Σελίδα 36 - Chief of the General Staff of the French army; the Count de Bondy, Prefect of the Department of the Seine, being furnished with the full powers of his Excellency, the Marshal Prince of Echmuhl, Commander in Chief of the French army on one side; and MajorGeneral Baron Muffling...
Σελίδα 61 - Blucher, who was going towards Wavre, where he appeared to wish to take a position. At ten o'clock in the evening, the English army occupied Mount St.
Σελίδα 20 - ... hurrah ! and an instant after, the town was ours. It was here that, among ma.ny other equipages, the carriage of Napoleon was taken : he had just left it to mount on horseback, and, in his hurry, had forgotten in it his sword and hat.
Σελίδα 13 - Blucher resolved to give battle ; Lord Wellington having already put in motion, to support him, a strong division of his army, as well as his whole reserve, stationed in the environs of Brussels, and the fourth corps of the Prussian army being also on the point of arriving.