 | 1847 - 114 σελίδες
...tempest, reeled and " staggered like sinking ships. But suddenly and sternly recover" ing, they closed on their terrible enemies, and then was seen with...a strength and majesty the British soldier fights 1 In vain " did Soult, by voice and gesture, animate his Frenchmen ; in vain " did the hardiest veterans,... | |
 | 1878
...and by the brilliant battles of Fuentes d'Onore and Albuera, when, as Napier wrote afterward?, ' it was seen with what a strength and majesty the British soldier fights.' The revulsion of feeling in England was rapid and sweeping, and the agonising doubts of the previous... | |
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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... 
