 | 1813 - 682 σελίδες
...musketry on holh flanks of the approach to the top of ihe narrow ridge of ihe curtain. Every tlim» that the most determined bravery could attempt was repeatedly tried in vain by the troops, who xveip brought forward from the trenches in suci-ossion. Л'о man mttlwedtkeattfoípt ta цмл Hier'ulyr... | |
 | 1813 - 750 σελίδες
...'polite to the breach, and ready to pour a most destructive ¡ire of musketry on * ' ' т ii-iKs of ihe approach to the top of the. narrow ridge of the curtain. Every *JA^~ that the moat determined bravery could attempt was rcjxaieuly tried in vain. •" 4-»*^ troops,... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1813 - 442 σελίδες
...devise, so that great numbers of men were covered by entrenchments and traverses, in • he horn-work, on the ramparts of the; curtain, and inside of the town opposite to he breach, and ready to pour a most destructive fire of musketry on botlt Banks of he approach to the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1814 - 830 σελίδες
...devise, so that great numbers of men were covered by entrenchments and tiaverses, in the horn-work, on the ramparts of the curtain, and inside of the...curtain. Every thing that the most determined bravery tould attempt was repeatedly tried in vain by the troops, who were brought forward from the trenches... | |
 | Francis L. Clarke, William Dunlap - 1814 - 446 σελίδες
...• of the curtain, and inside the town opposite to the breach, and now stood ready to pour a roost destructive fire of musketry on both flanks of the...approach to the top of the narrow ridge of the curtain. In vain were the assailants brought forward from the trenches in succession— no roan outlived the... | |
 | 1814 - 1112 σελίδες
...which military art and skill could devise ; and thus, covered themselves by intrenchments, they were ready to pour a most destructive fire of musketry on both flanks of the approach to that point where the breach was practicable. The British troops were brought forward from the trenches... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1815 - 770 σελίδες
...horn-work — on the ramparts of the curtain — and within the town opposite to the breach, and ready 'a pour a most destructive fire of musketry on both flanks...thing that the most determined bravery could attempt wa» repeatedly tried in vain by the troops, who were brought forward from the trenchei in succession.... | |
 | Hewson Clarke - 1815 - 888 σελίδες
...device, so that great numbers of men were covered by entrenchments, and traverses in the horn-work, on the ramparts of the curtain, and inside of the...to the breach, and ready to pour a most destructive 6re of musketry on both flanks of the approach to the top of the narrow ridge of the curtain. " Every... | |
 | Edward Seymour (of the Inner temple.) - 1815 - 610 σελίδες
...covered by intrenchraents and traverses, in the horn work, oh the ram'parls of the curtain; and inside the town opposite to the breach, and ready to pour a most destructive fire of musketry on both sides of the approach to the top of the narrow ridge of the curtain. " In this almost desperate state... | |
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... and traverses in the horn-work, on the ramparts of the curtain, and inside of the town opposite to the breach, and ready to pour a most destructive fire of musketry on both flanks of the approach to the top of the narrow ridge of the curtain. 
