Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... column , on Villeneuve's far- stretching line at Trafalgar . In his ship - the James— that is , he outsailed his squadron , and met alone Van Tromp's compact line , with its swift - following jets of flame and blasts of thunder as each ...
... column , on Villeneuve's far- stretching line at Trafalgar . In his ship - the James— that is , he outsailed his squadron , and met alone Van Tromp's compact line , with its swift - following jets of flame and blasts of thunder as each ...
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... column , its general , Rowe , leading , came on with iron steadiness , the tramp of the dis- ciplined battalions every moment sounded nearer and more menacing . When the British were within thirty yards the French fired . The long front ...
... column , its general , Rowe , leading , came on with iron steadiness , the tramp of the dis- ciplined battalions every moment sounded nearer and more menacing . When the British were within thirty yards the French fired . The long front ...
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... column , George II . is reported to have said , " Cursed be the laws which deprive me of such subjects . " And at Blenheim the Irish regiments seemed likely , at one moment , to play a part as great as at Fontenoy . They broke from ...
... column , George II . is reported to have said , " Cursed be the laws which deprive me of such subjects . " And at Blenheim the Irish regiments seemed likely , at one moment , to play a part as great as at Fontenoy . They broke from ...
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... column , and victory was snatched from its grasp solely from want of support on the part of the Dutch and Austrians . No coalition against France has ever been successful in which England did not take a prominent part ; none in the end ...
... column , and victory was snatched from its grasp solely from want of support on the part of the Dutch and Austrians . No coalition against France has ever been successful in which England did not take a prominent part ; none in the end ...
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... column of 40,000 men , straggling over six miles , of which the other troops were but the wooden staff . They were , too , in grim fighting mood , hungry and wrathful . The French batteries had opened fiercely on the British lines , the ...
... column of 40,000 men , straggling over six miles , of which the other troops were but the wooden staff . They were , too , in grim fighting mood , hungry and wrathful . The French batteries had opened fiercely on the British lines , the ...
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