The Battle of Waterloo, Also of Ligny and Quatre-Bras, Described by the Series of Accounts Published by Authority, with Circumstantial Details: By a Near Observer. Also Important Particulars, Communicated by Staff, and Regimental Officers, Serving in Different Parts of the Field, with Every Connected Official Document; Forming an Historical Record of the Campaign in the Netherlands, 1815. To which is Added a Register of the Names of the OfficersJ. Booth, 1817 |
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... Enemy began to give way Weak point of Hougomont reinforced by other artillery 43 Other artillery ordered to the right ... Enemy's artil- lery very interesting Discovery and sufferings of the wounded ib . 48 49 Returns of Artillery killed ...
... Enemy began to give way Weak point of Hougomont reinforced by other artillery 43 Other artillery ordered to the right ... Enemy's artil- lery very interesting Discovery and sufferings of the wounded ib . 48 49 Returns of Artillery killed ...
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... Enemy , and remained masters of the field of battle . The The cavalry , or at least a considerable part of them , had ... enemy's ca- valry as well as infantry . The Duke expected that the attack would be renewed this morning ; but the ...
... Enemy , and remained masters of the field of battle . The The cavalry , or at least a considerable part of them , had ... enemy's ca- valry as well as infantry . The Duke expected that the attack would be renewed this morning ; but the ...
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... Enemy's manœuvres , and issuing orders with the most intrepid coolness , while balls and shells showered around him ... Enemy , and restored the day . So tremendous were the dangers he braved , and so astonishing his escapes , that the ...
... Enemy's manœuvres , and issuing orders with the most intrepid coolness , while balls and shells showered around him ... Enemy , and restored the day . So tremendous were the dangers he braved , and so astonishing his escapes , that the ...
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... Enemy ; but its brave defen- ders only resigned its possession with their lives . The Enemy's reserve were chiefly placed upon the heights on their right , fig . 33 , Plate 1 , as it was the great object of Napoleon , if possible , to ...
... Enemy ; but its brave defen- ders only resigned its possession with their lives . The Enemy's reserve were chiefly placed upon the heights on their right , fig . 33 , Plate 1 , as it was the great object of Napoleon , if possible , to ...
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... Enemy's dragoons , knowing that we were weak in that arm , might make a dash into the camp , was no very pleasant reverie to soothe one to rest . Exclusive of this , I was annoyed by a wound I had received in the thigh , and which was ...
... Enemy's dragoons , knowing that we were weak in that arm , might make a dash into the camp , was no very pleasant reverie to soothe one to rest . Exclusive of this , I was annoyed by a wound I had received in the thigh , and which was ...
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18th of June arms arrived artillery attack Baron batt battalion Battle of Waterloo Belle Alliance brave brigade British Brunswick Brussels Buonaparté cannon Capt Captain cavalry centre charge Charleroi Colonel columns command corps Cuirassiers division Dragoons Duke of Wellington Emperor enemy enemy's English Ensign fell Field Marshal field of battle fire flank force fought France French army gallant Genappe George guns Hanoverian honour horse Hougomont Hussars Imperial Guard infantry John K. G. L. sev killed La Belle Alliance La Haye Sainte Lancers Lieut Lieut.-Col Lieutenant Ligny Lord Wellington loss Major Major-General Marshal Blucher military morning Napoleon night Nivelles o'clock officers Paris Picton position Prince Blucher Prince of Orange Prince Regent prisoners Prussian army Quatre Bras rear received regiment repulsed retreat road Royal Highness Sambre shot soldiers squares took troops victory village Wavre whole wood wounded
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Σελίδα 93 - And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies ; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them ; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
Σελίδα 252 - Madmen ! One moment of prosperity has bewildered them. The oppression and humiliation of the French people are beyond their power. If they enter France, they will there find their grave.
Σελίδα 188 - The enemy repeatedly charged our infantry with his cavalry ; but these attacks were uniformly unsuccessful, and they afforded opportunities to our cavalry to charge, in one of which Lord E. Somerset's brigade, consisting of the Life Guards, Royal Horse Guards, and 1st Dragoon Guards, highly distinguished themselves, as did that of Sir W.
Σελίδα 188 - Macdonell, and afterwards of Colonel Home ; and I am happy to add that it was maintained throughout the day with the utmost gallantry by these brave troops, notwithstanding the repeated efforts of large bodies of the enemy to obtain possession of it.
Σελίδα 17 - Picton, his Majesty has sustained the loss of an officer who has frequently distinguished himself in his service, and he fell gloriously leading his division to a charge with bayonets, by which one of the most serious attacks made by the enemy on our position was defeated.
Σελίδα 250 - ... that in consequence of events which have happened in Europe subsequent to the signature of the Convention aforesaid, it has been deemed expedient and determined, in conjunction with the Allied Sovereigns, that St. Helena shall be the place allotted...
Σελίδα 189 - I continued the pursuit till long after dark, and then discontinued it only on account of the fatigue of our troops, who had been engaged during twelve hours, and because I found myself on the same road with Marshal Blücher, who assured me of his intention to follow the enemy throughout the night...
Σελίδα 230 - ... of St. Cloud and Meudon; but the gallantry of the Prussian troops, under General Ziethen, surmounted every obstacle, and they succeeded finally in establishing themselves on the heights of Meudon, and in the village of Issy. The French attacked them again in Issy, at three o'clock in the morning of the 3d, but were repulsed with considerable loss; and finding that Paris was then open on its vulnerable side, that a communication was opened between the two...
Σελίδα 188 - I determined to attack the enemy, and immediately advanced the whole line of infantry, supported by the cavalry and artillery. The attack succeeded in every point...
Σελίδα i - Great England's glory and the world's wide wonder, Whose dreadful name late through all Spain did thunder, And Hercules' two pillars standing near Did make to quake and fear.