Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... battalions . They brought indeed some useful soldierly traditions into marine use - order , discipline , close fighting , hard hitting . A French writer , less than twenty years afterwards , wrote , “ Nothing equals the beautiful order ...
... battalions . They brought indeed some useful soldierly traditions into marine use - order , discipline , close fighting , hard hitting . A French writer , less than twenty years afterwards , wrote , “ Nothing equals the beautiful order ...
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... battalions and thirty - nine squad- rons , was to move from Flanders on the Moselle , and thence to the Danube ; Vendôme , with the army of Italy , was to penetrate through the Tyrol to Salzburg . Thus four great armies were to converge ...
... battalions and thirty - nine squad- rons , was to move from Flanders on the Moselle , and thence to the Danube ; Vendôme , with the army of Italy , was to penetrate through the Tyrol to Salzburg . Thus four great armies were to converge ...
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... battalions , amongst which were three Irish regiments destined to play a great part in the fight . Tallard covered his centre by a long screen of cavalry , strengthened by two brigades of infantry . His position thus was of great ...
... battalions , amongst which were three Irish regiments destined to play a great part in the fight . Tallard covered his centre by a long screen of cavalry , strengthened by two brigades of infantry . His position thus was of great ...
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... battalions , with one Hessian battalion , under Rowe , supported by eleven battalions and fifteen squadrons under Cutts . Nothing could be finer than the onfall of the British . They carried with a single rush some mills , which acted ...
... battalions , with one Hessian battalion , under Rowe , supported by eleven battalions and fifteen squadrons under Cutts . Nothing could be finer than the onfall of the British . They carried with a single rush some mills , which acted ...
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... battalions every moment sounded nearer and more menacing . When the British were within thirty yards the French fired . The long front of palisades sparkled with flame , a furious whirlwind of white smoke covered the whole front , and ...
... battalions every moment sounded nearer and more menacing . When the British were within thirty yards the French fired . The long front of palisades sparkled with flame , a furious whirlwind of white smoke covered the whole front , and ...
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advance afterwards Anson army attack battalions battle BATTLE OF MINDEN bayonets betwixt Blenheim breach brigade British line British ships British soldier broadside broke captain Cardigan cavalry centre Centurion charge Ciudad Rodrigo column command Contades Corunna courage crest crew daring deck division Dragoons enemy English fell fierce fight fire flagship flame flank fleet Florence Nightingale force fought French cavalry French line French ships front gallant galleon galloping grey guns Harris head hill horse horsemen infantry Jean Bon Saint-André Lord Cardigan Lord George Lord George Sackville Lord Raglan Marlborough Marmont mass miles Moore Moore's moving Napier Napoleon Navarino officers Queen Charlotte regiments retreat ridge Rifles rode Rodney round Russian sail sailor Salamanca San Sebastian Sandbag Battery says Scarlett shot shout siege slope smoke Soult Spain Spanish squadrons swept sword tempest thrust thunder troops tumult Urumea valley valour Vengeur victory Wellington whole wounded yards