Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... command of the Austrian armies , to Heinsius , his faithful ally in Holland , and to Godolphin , his brother - in - law at the English Treasury , did Marl- borough unfold his complete design . The Dutch would never have consented to ...
... command of the Austrian armies , to Heinsius , his faithful ally in Holland , and to Godolphin , his brother - in - law at the English Treasury , did Marl- borough unfold his complete design . The Dutch would never have consented to ...
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... command 60,000 men , with ninety guns ; Marlborough had 56,000 men and sixty - six guns . Marlborough's weakness lay in the strangely composite character of his forces . The battle , in this respect , has scarcely any parallel in ...
... command 60,000 men , with ninety guns ; Marlborough had 56,000 men and sixty - six guns . Marlborough's weakness lay in the strangely composite character of his forces . The battle , in this respect , has scarcely any parallel in ...
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... command after he fell were slain . The men , under the whirling smoke , and scorched with the flames of incessant volleys , were trying to tear up the palisades with their hands , or clamber over them by mounting on each other's ...
... command after he fell were slain . The men , under the whirling smoke , and scorched with the flames of incessant volleys , were trying to tear up the palisades with their hands , or clamber over them by mounting on each other's ...
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... command of Blenheim , believing the situation to be desperate , ignobly abandoned his men and tried to swim his horse across the Danube , and was very properly drowned in the attempt . For a time the fight round Blenheim was furious ...
... command of Blenheim , believing the situation to be desperate , ignobly abandoned his men and tried to swim his horse across the Danube , and was very properly drowned in the attempt . For a time the fight round Blenheim was furious ...
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... command a yacht , the low and narrow valley , wet and treacherous with bogs , where the British were stranded , was a great French army , 70,000 strong , under the most famous of living French generals , the Marshal de Noailles . A ...
... command a yacht , the low and narrow valley , wet and treacherous with bogs , where the British were stranded , was a great French army , 70,000 strong , under the most famous of living French generals , the Marshal de Noailles . A ...
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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