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Σελίδα 245 - 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.
Σελίδα 246 - 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.
Σελίδα 246 - Nothing could stop that astonishing infantry. 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...
Σελίδα 246 - French reserves, joining with the struggling multitude, endeavour to sustain the fight; their efforts only increased the irremediable confusion, and the mighty mass giving way like a loosened cliff, went headlong down the ascent. The rain flowed after in streams discoloured with blood, and fifteen hundred unwounded men, the remnant of six thousand unconquerable British soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill ! MOVEMENT OF CAVALRY SUPPORTS ALEXANDER WILLIAM KINGLAKE, The Invasion of the Crimea.
Πληροφορίες βιβλιογραφίας
| Τίτλος | The Theory of War ... |
| Συγγραφέας | P. L. Macdougall |
| Εκδότης | Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1856 |
| Πρωτότυπο από | Πανεπιστήμιο Οξφόρδης |
| Ψηφιοποιήθηκε στις | 22 Ιουν. 2006 |
| Μέγεθος | 353 σελίδες |
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