 | Rudolf Chambers Lehmann - 1908 - 388 σελίδες
...tempest, reeled and staggered like sinking ships ; but, suddenly and sternly recovering, they closed on their terrible enemies, and then was seen with...a strength and majesty the British soldier fights. . . . Nothing could stop that astonishing infantry. No sudden burst of undisciplined valour, no nervous... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1911 - 488 σελίδες
...iron tempest, reeled and staggered like sinking ships. Suddenly and sternly recovering, they closed on their terrible enemies, and then was seen with...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,... | |
 | Edward Fraser - 1913 - 478 σελίδες
...tempest, reeled and staggered like sinking ships ; but suddenly and sternly recovering, they closed on their terrible enemies, and then was seen with...majesty the British soldier fights. In vain did Soult with voice and gesture animate his Frenchmen ; in vain did the hardiest veterans break from the crowded... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1913 - 322 σελίδες
...of magnanimous wrath, when the historian, looking back upon the scene of Albuera, could exclaim — "And then was seen with what a strength and majesty the British soldier fights." War, which was once thus glorious, has been turned by Science into a grotesque and brutal contest of... | |
 | United Service Institution of India - 1914 - 586 σελίδες
...tempest, reeled and staggered like sinking ships ; but suddenly and sternly recovering, they closed on their terrible enemies, and then was seen with...majesty the British soldier fights. In vain did Soult with voice and gesture animate his Frenchmen; in vain did the hardiest veterans break from the crowded... | |
 | William Augustus Steward - 1915 - 586 σελίδες
...encourage his brave soldiers to stand ; it was useless. " Suddenly and sternly recovering, they closed on their terrible enemies, and then was seen with...strength and majesty the British soldier fights." To again quote Napier, "Nothing could stop that astonishing infantry . . . their measured tread shook... | |
 | Sir Merton Russell-Cotes - 1921 - 648 σελίδες
...historian is it, who, when referring back to the scene of Albuera, exclaimed : — German 4< Kultur " " And then was seen with what a strength and majesty the British soldier fights." Thus, that which was, if regrettable, free from cunning, and certainly not either brutal or grotesque,... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1922 - 138 σελίδες
...tempest, reeled and staggered like sinking ships ; but suddenly and sternly recovering, they closed on their terrible enemies, and then was seen with...majesty the British soldier fights. " In vain did Soult with voice and gesture animate his Frenchmen ; in vain did the hardiest veterans, breaking from the... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1922 - 256 σελίδες
...tempest, reeled and staggered like sinking ships; but suddenly and sternly recovering, they closed on their terrible enemies, and then was seen with...majesty the British soldier fights. "In vain did Soult with voice and gesture animate his Frenchmen ; in vain did the hardiest veterans, breaking from the... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1923 - 290 σελίδες
...tempest, reeled and staggered like sinking ships ; but suddenly and sternly recovering, they closed on their terrible enemies, and then was seen with...majesty the British soldier fights. " In vain did Soult with voice and gesture animate his Frenchmen ; in vain did the hardiest veterans, breaking from the... | |
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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... 
