Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... Harris , of the old 95th . " Harris was a soldier of the Peninsula days , a fair sample of the men who stormed Badajoz , who kept the hill of Busaco against Massena , and out- marched and out - fought Marmont at Salamanca . His ...
... Harris , of the old 95th . " Harris was a soldier of the Peninsula days , a fair sample of the men who stormed Badajoz , who kept the hill of Busaco against Massena , and out- marched and out - fought Marmont at Salamanca . His ...
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... Harris had a gleam of untaught literary genius . Every now and again there peeps out from his page a tiny battle vignette of curiously vivid colouring . Odd paragraphs in his book tingle as with the actual clash of bayonets . His story ...
... Harris had a gleam of untaught literary genius . Every now and again there peeps out from his page a tiny battle vignette of curiously vivid colouring . Odd paragraphs in his book tingle as with the actual clash of bayonets . His story ...
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... Harris , " set up one simultaneous and tremendous cheer , a sound I cannot describe , it seemed so overwhelming . " Harris heard afterwards on many battlefields that deep , stern , menac- ing wave of sound - the shout of the British ...
... Harris , " set up one simultaneous and tremendous cheer , a sound I cannot describe , it seemed so overwhelming . " Harris heard afterwards on many battlefields that deep , stern , menac- ing wave of sound - the shout of the British ...
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... Harris was the cobbler of his company he bore in addition " a haversack stuffed full of leather , a set of tools , and a lapstone " ! It is no wonder that sometimes under this load men on a long march would drop dead in the ranks from ...
... Harris was the cobbler of his company he bore in addition " a haversack stuffed full of leather , a set of tools , and a lapstone " ! It is no wonder that sometimes under this load men on a long march would drop dead in the ranks from ...
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... Harris tells the tale of a comrade's fate in this fight . Joseph Cochan was by my side loading and firing very industriously about this period of the day . Thirsting with heat and action , he lifted his canteen to his mouth ; ' Here's ...
... Harris tells the tale of a comrade's fate in this fight . Joseph Cochan was by my side loading and firing very industriously about this period of the day . Thirsting with heat and action , he lifted his canteen to his mouth ; ' Here's ...
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