Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... retreat , with Marlborough's cavalry riding fiercely on their rear . The smoke of the great fight yet hung black in the heavens . The slopes of the hills to the right , where Prince Eugene had four times over made his fiery onset , and ...
... retreat , with Marlborough's cavalry riding fiercely on their rear . The smoke of the great fight yet hung black in the heavens . The slopes of the hills to the right , where Prince Eugene had four times over made his fiery onset , and ...
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... retreat , and this , too , opened a close and deadly fire on the Irish brigade as , breathless and disordered , it came down the slope . With horsemen on its flank , and unbroken infantry scourging it with fire in front , the Irish ...
... retreat , and this , too , opened a close and deadly fire on the Irish brigade as , breathless and disordered , it came down the slope . With horsemen on its flank , and unbroken infantry scourging it with fire in front , the Irish ...
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... the left wing in full retreat , the condition of Tallard's right , shut up in Blenheim , was hopeless , and 11,000 French infantry laid down their arms as prisoners of war . The great French army MARLBOROUGH AT BLENHEIM 31.
... the left wing in full retreat , the condition of Tallard's right , shut up in Blenheim , was hopeless , and 11,000 French infantry laid down their arms as prisoners of war . The great French army MARLBOROUGH AT BLENHEIM 31.
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... retreat . But De Noailles had thrust his nephew , the Duc de Grammont , with 23,000 men , across the bridges at Seligenstadt , and seized Dettingen , thus barring George's retreat . It would be difficult to imagine a stronger position ...
... retreat . But De Noailles had thrust his nephew , the Duc de Grammont , with 23,000 men , across the bridges at Seligenstadt , and seized Dettingen , thus barring George's retreat . It would be difficult to imagine a stronger position ...
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... retreat ; to cross those nineteen bridges with Ferdinand thundering on his rear would have been ruinous . He had , after all , great superiority in numbers , and , as quickly as might be , he made his disposition for battle . Contades ...
... retreat ; to cross those nineteen bridges with Ferdinand thundering on his rear would have been ruinous . He had , after all , great superiority in numbers , and , as quickly as might be , he made his disposition for battle . Contades ...
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