Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... followed Marlborough and Eugene . " Nothing less than the warlike genius and masterful will of Marl- borough could have wielded into effectiveness an army made up of such diverse elements . Day broke on August 13 heavy with mist ; and ...
... followed Marlborough and Eugene . " Nothing less than the warlike genius and masterful will of Marl- borough could have wielded into effectiveness an army made up of such diverse elements . Day broke on August 13 heavy with mist ; and ...
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... followed Sarsfield into France . Their departure was long remembered in Ireland itself as " the flight of the wild geese , ” but the Irish regiments played a brilliant part in continental battles . After Fontenoy , where the Irish ...
... followed Sarsfield into France . Their departure was long remembered in Ireland itself as " the flight of the wild geese , ” but the Irish regiments played a brilliant part in continental battles . After Fontenoy , where the Irish ...
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... followed them so fast and so furiously that the story of Pizarro's squadron is more tragical than even that of Anson's . One Spanish ship foundered at sea , a second was wrecked on the coast of Brazil . Famine stalked , gaunt and hungry ...
... followed them so fast and so furiously that the story of Pizarro's squadron is more tragical than even that of Anson's . One Spanish ship foundered at sea , a second was wrecked on the coast of Brazil . Famine stalked , gaunt and hungry ...
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... followed by one yet more furious . The Centurion's courses were actually kept reefed for fifty - eight days ! The squadron was scattered , the Severn and Pearl never rejoining . On May 8 , Anson himself was off the island of Socorro ...
... followed by one yet more furious . The Centurion's courses were actually kept reefed for fifty - eight days ! The squadron was scattered , the Severn and Pearl never rejoining . On May 8 , Anson himself was off the island of Socorro ...
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... followed . The stately British line had a northerly course ; De Grasse , by this time formed into a somewhat straggling line , was stand- ing to the south - east so as to cross the head of the British line , and , if possible , bar its ...
... followed . The stately British line had a northerly course ; De Grasse , by this time formed into a somewhat straggling line , was stand- ing to the south - east so as to cross the head of the British line , and , if possible , bar its ...
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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