History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From A. D. 1807 to A. D. 1814, Τόμος 3Worthington Company, 1890 |
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Agueda Albuera Alemtejo allies Almeida Ampurdan Andalusia Aragon arms arrived artillery attack Badajos Ballesteros bank Barcelona Barosa battalions batteries battle Beresford besiegers Blake blockade breach bridge brigade British Cadiz Campo Mayor Campo Verde Captain Codrington castle Catalonia cavalry centre Christoval Ciudad Rodrigo Colonel column command commenced communication convoy corps Cortes defence detachment Ebro Elvas enemy enemy's England English Estremadura fight fire flank force fortress France French army front Gallicia garrison Guadiana guards guns hill hundred Junta l'armée l'empereur latter Lerida light division Lisbon Lord Wellington Macdonald Madrid Marmont Massena Meanwhile menaced military mountains Murcia Napoleon night officers Olivenza operations orders partidas passed Peninsula Portugal Portuguese position posts province qu'il rear Regency regiments reinforcements retired retreat river road Sabugal Sarsfield sent Seville side siege soldiers Soult Spain Spaniards Spanish squadrons Stuart succor Suchet Tagus Tarifa Tarragona Tortosa town troops Valencia Villa wounded
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Σελίδα 100 - 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 tread shook the ground, their dreadful v.olleys 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...
Σελίδα 378 - ... shot, some by water, that some were crushed and mangled by heavy weights, some trampled upon, some dashed to atoms by the fiery explosions ; that for hours this destruction was endured without shrinking, and...
Σελίδα 100 - Nothing could stop that astonishing infantry; no sudden burst of undisciplined valor, 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 different cries that broke from all parts of the tumultuous crowd...
Σελίδα 370 - Then, everything being suddenly disturbs1 the double columns of the fourth and light divisions also moved silently and swiftly against the breaches, and the guard of the trenches rushing forward with a shout, encompassed the San Roque with fire, and broke in so violently that scarcely any resistance was made.
Σελίδα 351 - The allies now plunged into the streets from all quarters, for O'Toole's attack was also successful, and at the other side of the town Pack's Portuguese, meeting no resistance, had entered the place, and the reserves also came in. Then throwing off the restraints of discipline the troops committed frightful excesses. The town was fired in three or four places, the soldiers menaced their officers, and shot each other ; many were killed in the market-place, intoxication soon increased the tumult, disorder...
Σελίδα 373 - ... being set, the planks moved, and the unhappy soldiers, falling forward on the spikes, rolled down upon the ranks behind. Then the Frenchmen, shouting at the success of their stratagem, and leaping forward, plied their shot with terrible rapidity, for every man had several muskets...
Σελίδα 100 - ... like a loosened cliff went headlong down the steep ; the rain flowed after in streams discoloured with blood, and eighteen hundred unwounded men, the remnant of six thousand unconquerable British soldiers, stood triumphant on the fatal hill.
Σελίδα 376 - ... whisper were heard around, lattices were now and then gently opened, and from time to time shots were fired from underneath the doors of the houses by the Spaniards.
Σελίδα 405 - A few hours' delay, an accident, a turn of fortune, and he would have been foiled ! ay ! but this is war, always dangerous and uncertain, an everrolling wheel and armed with scythes.
Σελίδα 368 - Then the soldiers eagerly made themselves ready for a combat, so fiercely fought, so terribly won, so dreadful in all its circumstances, that posterity can scarcely be expected to credit the tale ; but many are still alive who know that it is true.