Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... Head on the afternoon of May 19 , 1651-52 , would have looked down on a great historic scene . In the famous strait beneath , some sixty great ships were engaged in the fiery wrestle of battle , and the sullen , deep - voiced roar of ...
... Head on the afternoon of May 19 , 1651-52 , would have looked down on a great historic scene . In the famous strait beneath , some sixty great ships were engaged in the fiery wrestle of battle , and the sullen , deep - voiced roar of ...
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... head - quarters of the various French armies ; but it was too late for the Dutch to object , and also too late for the French generals to intercept his movement , and it was clear that the combination of three French armies under ...
... head - quarters of the various French armies ; but it was too late for the Dutch to object , and also too late for the French generals to intercept his movement , and it was clear that the combination of three French armies under ...
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... heads of their kneeling comrades . The broad red 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 ...
... heads of their kneeling comrades . The broad red 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 ...
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... heads and wind - blown crests , the gleam of a thousand swords and the thunder of innumerable galloping hoofs , came the British cavalry . Tallard's centre was broken as with the stroke of a thunderbolt ! His infantry was swept into ...
... heads and wind - blown crests , the gleam of a thousand swords and the thunder of innumerable galloping hoofs , came the British cavalry . Tallard's centre was broken as with the stroke of a thunderbolt ! His infantry was swept into ...
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... head of the Centurion , a ship scarcely inferior in fame to Drake's Golden Hind , in which Anson , one of the great sailors of our race , made his immortal voyage round the world in 1740-44 . In 1870 it was transferred to the playground ...
... head of the Centurion , a ship scarcely inferior in fame to Drake's Golden Hind , in which Anson , one of the great sailors of our race , made his immortal voyage round the world in 1740-44 . In 1870 it was transferred to the playground ...
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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