Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... forward to the attack . Tallard was quite unprepared for an engage- ment , when the fog , lifting for a moment , showed the whole landscape before him peopled with moving battalions and fretted with the gleam of steel . Marl- borough ...
... forward to the attack . Tallard was quite unprepared for an engage- ment , when the fog , lifting for a moment , showed the whole landscape before him peopled with moving battalions and fretted with the gleam of steel . Marl- borough ...
Стр. 27
... forward , till he struck the palisades with his sword , and bade his men fire . the word into flame . The whole British front broke at Then the men , their officers lead- ing , tried to carry the palisades with the bayonet . The great ...
... forward , till he struck the palisades with his sword , and bade his men fire . the word into flame . The whole British front broke at Then the men , their officers lead- ing , tried to carry the palisades with the bayonet . The great ...
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... forward with dogged slow- ness , but with the air of men who did not propose to go back . When within some sixty yards of the enemy they halted for a moment , that the lines might be dressed , and then there broke from the steady ranks ...
... forward with dogged slow- ness , but with the air of men who did not propose to go back . When within some sixty yards of the enemy they halted for a moment , that the lines might be dressed , and then there broke from the steady ranks ...
Стр. 68
... forward , not firing a shot . An officer in the Welsh Fusiliers says , " Our people , march- ing in close order , as firm as a wall , did not fire till we came within sixty paces , and still kept advancing . " The men , as a matter of ...
... forward , not firing a shot . An officer in the Welsh Fusiliers says , " Our people , march- ing in close order , as firm as a wall , did not fire till we came within sixty paces , and still kept advancing . " The men , as a matter of ...
Стр. 69
... forward . Upon that wide front of footmen , De Grammont , as his only hope , launched his whole force of cavalry in one furious charge . And more gallant cavalry never , perhaps , joined in the shock of battle than those squad- rons ...
... forward . Upon that wide front of footmen , De Grammont , as his only hope , launched his whole force of cavalry in one furious charge . And more gallant cavalry never , perhaps , joined in the shock of battle than those squad- rons ...
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